(27 Apr 2014, 7:55 pm)robisdave15 wrote You would have this combined with some pro-active 'managrment', plus maybe the occasional spare vehicle / driver would go someway to dealing with some of the issues that affect the running of the X93? It's not always possible and kinda steps into an alien territory for Arriva but why not try these things? Be interesting to see what our man on the inside (Tyresmoke) has to say?
High management have been down at Redcar and Whitby quite a lot in the last month or two, and it has resulted in a fair improvement to be honest! The X4 has been (almost) solid Pulsar and the X93 has been seeing 5 deckers quite regularly in the last week or two...
Still a long way to go though, with the X3 still failing allocation etc... Redcar often have a spare vehicle in Middlesbrough, as do Stockton. Whitby I believe sometimes do have a spare decker in Whitby bus station but obviously that relies on Redcar enabling them to have an extra vehicle to start with!