(16 Mar 2015, 6:12 pm)Dan wrote Washington's spare vehicles on a Monday - Friday are made up as follows:
- 3x Volvo B7TL/Plaxton President
- 1x DAF SB120/Wright Cadet
- 2x Scania L94UB/Wright Solar
- 1x MPD
On a Saturday, all seven of Washington's Volvo B7TL/Plaxton Presidents are spare vehicles. This is why, on Saturdays especially, double deckers are commonly allocated to services 82/82A and 85/86, as there are so few spare minibuses or single deckers.
I know they're pretty restricted by fact deckers can't be used as spares on the 4 or the 88/88A, so it does surprise me that they haven't more spare single deck buses. That being the case, I'd assume that the depot are using the deckers as first point of call for a spare, on the 82/82A/85/86, in case the others are needed elsewhere later in the day. I do understand we can't have an infinite supply of spare buses, but an extra one or two has got to be better than running an empty decker round all day.