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While I can see that's where the numbers might lead you, I don't think it's as simple as that. Speaking anecdotally (as someone who knows quite a lot of coach operators and has also worked on the bus/coach side of rail replacement for many years - planning, managing, driving and supervising)...

I was just preparing an indignant reply saying that it is the case, being full time in the industry and having lived through the whole process and having the dates etched on my brain, but then stopped to think that yes of course you are right in respect of newer coaches. So I apologise for...

Yes No But as everyone seems to be acknowledging, there is a significant shortage of accessible coaches, which is why the exemption from 1st Jan to 1st Feb has been granted in the first place. Nothing dramatic will change between 1st January and 1st February - there aren't hundreds of...

The LM project is an excellent example of the process at its best. In addition to the creative talents at BI, LM had a phenomenally good marketing manager who I'm sure will have pushed BI to get the absolute best from them. When it works well it's a tremendous collaborative exercise, with each...

Don’t worry, it’s absolutely fine! Ray is himself one of the biggest enthusiasts around, but his work is targeted at operators and bus users, not other enthusiasts, so I doubt he’ll lose any sleep over it. If that’s all you wanted, then yes that’s probably exactly what you would do. There’s...

Fair question. But very often an operator will have seen something somewhere else that they've really liked, and want something similar. So actually "virtually the same livery" may well be exactly what they want! Also, as I said above, they will have the good sense to know that the design...

Thank you. I think the key point about the 'identikit work' that many people miss, is that these are not abstract works of art designed to hang in a gallery, they are working brands, designed to fulfil a business objective. It should not therefore come as a huge surprise if the elements that...

I’ve known and worked with Ray for almost twenty years. Apart from being an incredible designer, he’s also one of the most warm hearted and generous people you could wish to meet, and passionate about the industry. He would be the first to recognise that all art is subjective and that debate and...

Unfortunately not at the moment - we don’t even have one for internal use (which makes life a bit challenging sometimes). The Group is in the process standardising on a single asset management system and groupwide fleet numbering which will make this possible at some point in the future.

A number of Solo SRs are about to appear with HCT Group, at Powell’s in Rotherham. I believe some of them are ex-Malta but I couldn’t tell you which ones. The full list is as follows, if it’s any help... KX14FJF KX14FJZ KX14FHU KX14FJC KX14FJD KX14FJU KX14FHH KX14FHY KX14FHZ

I was Development Director at Wellglade a few years back so I can help with that! The simple answer is that Nottingham depot is full! I agree it seems perverse to run a route from a location no longer served - and obviously it goes back to the days when Indigo did go there. But various options...

The evidence probably shows that you'd have been right! Having said that, I can only go off the figures I saw (direct ticket machine data, so no opportunity for manipulation), and my impression was that after taking December and January to find its feet, revenue grew very rapidly and...

I should probably have said “corporate work and account payments”. There are sources of income to bus companies beyond bus fares and hires. Also I believe the taxi side of the business had shifted to doing almost entirely account work latterly, Uber having destroyed the hackney carriage market...

To be honest, catching up with about six pages of this forum today, there are so many posts that made me fall off my chair that I'm quite sure I'll have mangled some peoples' intentions. It was actual this one - "I’m informed that Mr. Stockley is also working for Wheelers’ this weekend on Take...

Thank you for creating the platform for a more reasoned discussion. You are quite correct, it is a perfectly reasonable subject for discussion, but it's impossible to have that discussion when people are more interested in my sexual preferences, completely made up allegations about wrecked...

1) I’m sorry if you feel upset. I respect people’s legitimate concerns, but question how many people here actually have any direct knowledge of what they’re talking about, rather than simply joining in a chorus of disapproval about stuff they’ve read about second hand. 2) I would hope that the...

I wasn’t aware I had offered a defence or was required to do so. There is much that could be said, but won’t be while this board continues to fabricate complete untruths to suit its own narrative and then celebrate them as ‘facts’. Anyway, my point - which you avoided - was really more about...

Respectfully, it’s a £60 million turnover business with around 700 buses and 1500 staff nationwide, and recently announced a £18 million funding package for future expansion, so it shouldn’t seem that far fetched! In any event, very few buses are bought for cash these days - most are...

CT Plus is indeed operating these services under contract to First, for exactly the reasons Colly405 and carlberry have surmised to do with scaling up the driver requirement progressively.

That’s the one. It was leased for that contract so I would imagine that will be it’s normal home, but all the Sprinters at Bristol are interchangeable so it would be equally possible for it to pop up on other routes.