(21 Jun 2014, 9:52 am)DaveyBowyer wrote In all honestly with you all, GNE should allocate it to the long TEN or as many as possible and do a performance rating against the B9TL. The real challenge will be a fully laden B5 between Prudhoe and Hexham. In fact, the only B9TL route that I would deem the B5 to be capable of handling would be the 310 so practically, none taking into account that it interworks with the 309. What they could do however is this:
- 6101 to Riverside for the TTX making it upto 7 B9TL'S.
- 6102 to 6111 at Percy Main plus 6116 (spare) for the 309 with a PVR of 10 and running every 15 minutes including between Whitley Bay and Blyth. Services 309 and 310 would no longer interwork.
- 7 plus one spare (6118 - 6125) Volvo B5TL's delivered to Percy Main for service 310 .
- 2 plus two spare (6126 - 6129) Volvo B5LH's delivered
to CLS to make up the PVR and spares for service 21.
- Therefore, 5 Volvo B9TL's (6112- 6115 & 6117), and 3 Volvo B7TL's (3962 - 3963 & 3965 have been released).
- 3962 would swap with 6116 with it only acting as a spare and 6099 and 6100 would swap with 3963 and 3965.
The above would mean the following:
- 8 Volvo B9TL's (6099, 6100, 6112, 6113, 6114, 6115, 6116 and 6117) would be for the Pronto X21.
- 10 Volvo B9TL's (6102 - 6111) plus one Volvo B7TL (3962) would be for Cobalt Clipper 309.
- 7 Volvo B5TL's plus one spare (6118 - 6125) would be for Cobalt Clipper 310.
- 2 Volvo B5LH's plus two spare (6126 - 6129) would join Angel service 21.
- 1 Volvo B9TL (6101) would join the TTX and the buggy bay would be removed with extra seats.
- 2 Volvo B7TL's (3963 and 3965) would now act as spares for the Fab 56.
won't happen Cobal Clipper brand has been updated with 6 month old vehicles that were delivered at the back end of December as with Fab Fifty Six and as for the Angel brand they have perfectly fine vehicles that stick to there route everyday TTX does not need new vehicles there fine as it is and as for Ten they have quality and fine vehicles Pronto will more than likely be getting newer vehicles in the future but not yet anyways if GNE need to order new vehicles they would look at finance cost and identify which routes to put them on thats why Demo's are there for to identify a perfect vehicle eg if the Laser for eg were to recieve an upgrade in the near future they will probs get deckers