(08 Mar 2014, 2:57 pm)Kuyoyo wrote What do you think they've been doing the last 5 years!? Replaced the Coaches with 5 year old OmniCitys in 2010 then when they withdrew the X60/X61 trialled the E400s which were successful with the loadings. Last summer they moved permenantly to Whitby but they struggle to cope. Hence the trial of 7624 but without even trialling the B7TLs they've gone for those (7494 is now at Redcar, the originally intended 11 are now coming with 3 for Ashington, 6 for Whitby and 2 for Jesmond to replace the 2 DAFs moving across from Classic) as a stop-gap. Like said, last year the X93 is said to have made a 6 figure profit (which means they took £170k+ including running costs etc) so hopefully even with an increased summer PVR (they looking at using 8 vehicles this year I believe) plus the rumoured good weather will produce similar results.
That's exactly my point!
Since the coaches went, we could probably count the decent summers we have had, on one finger!
Despite the rubbish summers, newer vehicles have been used on the service.
The service investment, isn't solely dependent on the weather, like I have said.