(03 Jun 2014, 10:38 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Not sure what you mean by the first bit of your post or which part of my post you are referring to...

As for the second bit, why spare vehicle percentage?
Genuine question.

Compass spare vehicle allocation will be miniscule compared to say GNE's.
The chances of a Compass spare vehicle meeting Nexus spec is smaller than one of GNE's meeting the spec.

So in theory, each time a Compass vehicle is off the road for whatever reason, the chances of obtaining a fine is greatly increased.

GNE, despite having a bigger fleet within a specific depot and whatever the dedicated percentage of spare vehicles is (of which a percentage will meet Nexus spec), they still manage to incur fines on a regular basis.

It's really getting on and as I'm typing all of this from my phone, I'm in no position to start quoting above posts in the middle of this post and all that malarkey.

Using the overall amount of vehicles in the fleet would be a silly figure to go from, in my opinion. When the majority of those vehicles are occupied on normal commercial work or other contracted services, they're not available in the depot for use on the contracted service which requires a vehicle because its usual allocation is VOR.

And if Compass' spare vehicle percentage is miniscule compared to that of the larger operators, why are they being trusted to operate services on behalf of Nexus? Does that not immediately suggest the service quality will be lower, some journeys will be missed due to no vehicles being available, etc?

Great - just what we want. Extra money in Nexus' back pocket because they want to give the contract to the lowest bidder no matter what the quality will be as a result.