(04 Jun 2014, 8:43 pm)aureolin wrote I'm not defending a bus looking like that on the exterior, but perhaps it's more visible on a white bus than it is on the grey examples you posted? Another two you've taken of white buses:
Exterior shot of Go North East's 563, Transbus MPD/Transbus Mini Pointer by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
Exterior shot of A-LINE's T601JBA, Dennis Dart SLF/Marshall Capital by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
Perhaps if Compass' fleet were in Nexus livery, we wouldn't have this issue then..?
Both of those vehicles were pictured looking rather more worse for wear than usual. I'm guessing there was some sort of muck on the road judging by the photo of 563...
I've just searched for more photos of 563 and that is by far the dirtiest of them all; indeed, excluding one other photo, I think 563 is fairly clean on all the photos whilst in white.