(31 Dec 2014, 4:59 pm)gtom wrote No Dan, but using the service and experiencing plenty of breakdowns, no-shows etc does show they are unreliable.
Yet again with the 21 GNE ballsed up the vehicle choice. You'd have thought they would have learnt their lesson and really thought things out, clearly not
I obviously cannot argue against direct experiences of breakdowns, but I wasn't aware that the Volvo Hybrids regularly did breakdown... They're still fairly new buses, and certainly should not be suffering problems so early in their predicted life span.
What I would say is slightly more plausible is that, like a lot of Wrightbus products, the "Angel" allocation are facing problems which are electrical rather than mechanical... So a bus may have to come off at Chester-le-Street to be replaced by a corporate liveried vehicle due to an issue with a light on the dash, or something similar...