(17 May 2014, 4:16 pm)Dan wrote Not sure how moving three B9TLs to a low-cost outstation would be any good at all? The resources at Riverside are far superior to the resources at Peterlee.
You could argue that having a tacho-fitted B10BLE at Peterlee would be purposeful, as well as having a spare driver readily available in the bus station, but there's also the cost-factor you'd have to consider. Certainly could appreciate that it's better to have one spare tacho-fitted vehicle present at Peterlee to replace breakdowns at the Middlesbrough end of the route, but even then, it takes 30 minutes to get from A to B and the next TTX is ready and picking up passengers by then.
It doesn't need to go all the way to Middlesbrough - it just needs to get to the relevant stand in Peterlee Bus Station (or the slip road on A19) to head North and pick up the route from that point.
As you say, the following bus would be in Middlesbrough to pick up passengers between there and Peterlee.