(03 Mar 2014, 2:17 am)ADLEnviro wrote Official allocations are :-


3.....MAN ALX300......= 9
4.....ADL Enviro 200..=11
5/5A..Dennis Dart SLF = 3
8.....ADL Enviro 200..= 2
10/11.ADL Enviro 200..=10
12....MAN ALX300......= 4
13....MAN ALX300......=11
16....Scania GAS......=10
18/19.ADL Enviro 200..= 6
20....Scania GAS......= 5
23....ADL Enviro 200..= 2
23....MAN Enviro 200..= 6
Peak Vehicle Requirement = 79
Engineering spare = 10
Paint.....=1
Dock......=6
PSV prep..=2
Major VOR.=1
TOTAL FLEET ALLOCATION = 89

I know this (the fleet cards with these details are available on the public domain after a week or two of them being released), but that appears to be littered with mistakes - which makes me sound like a bit of an arse because it's an official document.

If Sunderland were to allocate Pointer 2 Darts on services 5/5A which I believe is partially secured as a Euro 5 contract between The Docks and the City Centre, there would be trouble with Nexus. The reality of the situation is that E200s are always allocated - I can't recall a Pointer 2 ever being allocated. I was told about an ALX300 being on the City Centre to Doxford Park stretch for half a run only just a few weeks ago, but was inevitably replaced.

Service 8 is allocated Pointer 2s and not Enviro 200s - at least most of the time. Lately the appearance of Enviro 200s has become more common, but perhaps this is linked to the Darts being found on anything and everything as of late.

Services 18/19 and 23 appear to be the wrong way round - the non-branded ADL examples are usually found on services 4 and 5/5A, the branded examples on service 23 and services 18/19 have a mixture of both MAN and ADL because all of the MAN examples are just thrown about everywhere. From personal observation, the MAN examples are certainly on services 18/19 a hell of a lot more than service 23 - so there's a problem regardless. I'm sure Michael can account for the amount of MAN vs ADL E200s he has seen on service 23 over the past few days?

Allocations have been poor since the arrival of the new ADL E200s which I cannot comprehend. There are a limited number of services which appear to have a set allocation (the ALX300 ones), but the others are seemingly allocated anything - as if there's no difference between a MAN and ADL E200 and a Pointer 2 Dart.

Go North East are called all sorts for their wrong allocations and while I agree customers aren't likely to notice as much with Stagecoach's wrong allocations as they're all in fleet livery (with a few exceptions), it just goes to show that allocations are clearly difficult to manage.