(24 Feb 2014, 5:45 pm)tyresmoke wrote DAF deckers would encompass both Lowlanders and ALX400s so its not unusual. Same as specific boards on 56/57s are allocated them to do with college loadings.
The 24 is undoubtedly the strongest of the 3, the 22 is more of an express into Durham going direct from Thornley to Sherburn though. I don't have enough experience of the network out that way to say whether they're performing massively well or poorly and I suspect a lot of the people posting don't either. There's very much a GNE biased view coming across for obvious reasons,, obviously the network has been cut back but services have to be profitable to be able to run and therefore once you get a profitable network you can add to it, rather than constantly cutting like Sunderland has seen.

See my edit - you got in there before I clarified it wasn't unusual for DAFs to appear on the boards which are usually operated by Pulsars/OmniCitys.

I think everyone involved in the discussion has said and will agree again that the 24 is the strongest of the three. I personally haven't had any issues with the 24 in regards to reliability (unlike cbma06), but the loadings are greater pulling out of Peterlee towards Durham than the 23's loadings are towards Hartlepool.

I don't think the views are biased towards a specific company at all, it's a mere debate on the performance of all three services but mainly the 23, given that it's currently said to be in-line for direct investment opposed to cascades (appearing most unusual to the fair majority of people who live in the areas service 23 operates in). I've certainly seen both sides of the debate in my posts...

In regards to Sunderland seeing cuts, Deptford's PVR hasn't reduced overall... It has been lost in some places, but gained elsewhere. Your argument for Arriva works in the exact same way as it does for Go North East, despite what you may think.