Someone in a previous posting was moaning about the reliability of the B9TLs (and the B7TLs before them).
I don't think it's the bus itself that is the problem. I think something else might be causing the problem, not saying what, as I might have legal action threatened against me.
But look at it this way. I believe one of the most punishing bus routes in the UK for a normal bus are the Yorkshire Coastliner services from Leeds to Whitby / Scarborough / Bridlington. They are 3 times as long as the X9/X10, the route to Whitby is extremely hilly. There's plenty of fast running. Also enroute it passes through two cities. The mainstay of the Yorkshire Coastliner fleet is the very same Volvo B7TLs / Volvo B9TLs with the Wright Eclipse Gemini body (Some are Gemini 2). And to be honest, I haven't heard many reports of mass unreliability with their Volvos.
So what are they doing to theirs that GNE aren't?
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