(27 Sep 2017, 2:48 pm)Malarkey wrote What's the PVR for the Masters Golf Shuttles?
(29 Sep 2017, 9:32 am)idiot wrote USB points on the streetlites are not good enough to charge a phone - clever that!
(29 Sep 2017, 9:49 am)omnicity4659 wrote I've never had problems with USB chargers, usually putting it in airplane mode charges the phone quicker.
(27 Sep 2017, 5:06 am)Dan wrote The trouble with the Mercedes Sprinters is that, because they have such a small capacity, they are unsuitable for 95% of the services which Go North East operates. The 5% of the services they could be allocated to are fine, but as all of these are contracted services, what happens with the bus at the end of that contract? It can't always be guaranteed that Go North East would retain the contract, or that the council would continue funding this contract.
The operations around the Go-Ahead Group are much the same, meaning that if Go North East lost the contract, they couldn't easily dispose of the Mercedes Sprinter to another opco.
The way that Go North East procures its buses and then disposes of them means that there has to be solid ground to stand on to buy something, then the asset depreciates over x number of years (if I recall correctly; 10 for a minibus, 12 for a midibus, 15 for a full size single/double deck). A 5-year contract isn't enough - it would have to be a 10-year contract, of which there aren't many! Even if there was, you'd have the issue that you'd be ordering something completely non-standard in the fleet and unproven over that amount of years. More likely Go North East will stick to Solos as their preferred minibus.
9095 left the fleet some time ago - around the time when Tynedale Links Solo 670 returned to service at Hexham following temporary loan to Riverside. Our news/fleet list out of date! Will correct it today.
(29 Sep 2017, 10:58 pm)park5354 wrote 4942 looks like its had a repaint, in plain red only.
(29 Sep 2017, 11:52 pm)thetravelman wrote Whilst in Costco the other night, a Scania L94 Solar passed with an Engineer at the wheel. It was heading away from Riverside depot blinded up for 10b to Newcastle.
I thought then that this vehicle looked nice and shiny Red, as if it had been repainted. I didn't get its fleet number but it could of possibly been 4942.
If it has been repainted, why would it be in just Red.
(29 Sep 2017, 11:52 pm)thetravelman wrote If it has been repainted, why would it be in just Red.
(30 Sep 2017, 5:24 am)Dan wrote Bodywork in poor condition, so lower panels only repainted red. It isn't likely to be disposed of in the immediate future, so just to up quality standards.
It has also been fitted with side and rear LED destinations - there's a plan in the works for all buses which retain flipdot displays to have them replaced with LEDs, over the coming weeks.
(30 Sep 2017, 8:33 am)Michael wrote Will 6100 ever receive the new Go North East livery?, infact will any of the younger buses such as the red Omnicities ever get the 2016 fleet lvery?
(30 Sep 2017, 8:47 am)S813 FVK wrote I would like to think that, once they get the TTX B9s completed, they will start to focus on the corporate livery repaints again. They seemed to complete the Omnidekkas and then everything just died.
