Skelton Coaches have added a brand new Volvo B9R Panther to their fleet, still all white and so far unregistered. Volvo B12M WL06WAA is now in orange fleet livery.

Procters have brand new Van Hool Astromega PR05TER in their fleet, other recent additions are Volvo B12B FJ08DZN, MAN Noge 872UXW

M&D Travel have added Scania L94IB A19TKF to their fleet from Gardiners NMC. Mercedes Vario V670DAO is now in fleet livery.

Henry Cooper have new Volvo B7RLE 3515HX in service following extensive repairs.

Griersons have Volvo B10M UJI6313 back in use. New to the fleet is Volvo B10M R863TST.

Gardiners NMC have sold Scania L94IB A19TKF to M&D Travel, it has been replaced by similar H5KFC. Also added to the fleet are Volvo B12B LK53KVV and Neoplan Euroliner YN03AWZ (now re-registered UFE712).

Coastal & Country have purchased Mercedes Vario RG04DVL from Whirlwind Travel (Blackpool). This replaces Vario PG53SXU which has been sold to Solus Coaches.

A proposal to cut by a quarter the amount of money North Yorkshire County Council spends on subsidising bus journeys has been put to consultation.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yor...e-23647045

For those of you interested in actual fleets of bus companies: do their fleet numbers really irritate you?

As an example of Go North East's fleet:

I would much prefer it if Go North East worked their fleet similar to Stagecoach, with different numbers taking on different types of bus - minibus, midibus, full size, double decker, articulated, coach etc.

1 to 1000 could be ancillary vehicles - 1xx, 2xx, 3xx, 4xx perhaps denoting different types.
1000 to 1250 could be dedicated MPD numbers.
1250 to 1500 could be dedicated Solo numbers.
(and carry this on for all other types of vehicles).

Something that really bugs me is the numbering of GNE's B7 Geminis:
http://d.pr/i/Ks3m
41, 42, 43, 62... Hardly makes sense to me.

Here's another one. A load of Prestiges in the middle of the Volvo B10BLEs:
http://d.pr/i/ALgo
Why? I don't know what's worse: having them there, or what it will be like when they're scrapped and no longer within the fleet. A massive jump between the two B10BLEs there.

I don't know what to even say about this one:
http://d.pr/i/4biq
Further Solars continue after the mass of dual door B10BLEs also.

Surely a gap in fleet numbers would have been appropriate here so that, if further rigid Citaros enter the fleet, they become standardised in the sense that they're together with the Citaros already in the fleet?
http://d.pr/i/PKvD

Another example of the above:
http://d.pr/i/g2Lc
Further investment into B9TL vehicles was obvious, so why have B7TLs there amongst the branded B9TLs?

In short, a different vehicle type should have its own dedicated set of numbers to allow for further investment into the fleet with that vehicle type.

Here's something else that annoys me too - Arriva this time, though there are examples of this happening in GNE's fleet too:
http://d.pr/i/HsEQ
Surely 4709 should be DHC, 4710 should be DHD and 4711 should be DHE..?

What are your opinions on the ordering, numbering etc of fleet lists?

Just following on from this conversation from the Washington Area Developments thread:

(11 Jul 2013, 7:31 pm)gtomlinson wrote I find it odd that the Competition Commission ruled that ASDA could not have Birtley Netto and were forced to sell it to the Co-Op due to the locale of the Galleries Asda but it's ok for Morrisons to have a 30,000sq foot supermarket in Birtley (construction starting August) and plan for another 30,000sq foot in Washington

Well, I had the pleasure of visiting Blyth today. I drove into the town centre from Cowpen and stopped to buy a drink from the large ASDA located there. Afterwards, I got back into my car to continue my journey down the A193 into Blyth. About 5 minutes down the road I noticed a smaller ASDA (ex-Netto) Supermarket and it got me thinking about the points raised in the quote above.

It does strike me as odd this ruling by the Competition Commission about Birtley as the ASDA at Cowpen is probably larger than the one at Washington and also the fact that there are two ASDA's positioned on the same stretch of road in the same town. So does anyone have any explanations or theories why two ASDAs can exist in Blyth, but not in Washington and Birtley?