Quite often when I travel down A19 North Yorkshire area (Thirsk, Northallerton) there is a 2 tone blue Mercedes Benz Vario up and down with the schoolkids logo.

It certainly doesn't look DDA compliant and today I managed to get reg it's 
GN05 DZU,  looks like it has 869 displayed as number, but that could be irrelevant 

Who operates this vehicle, and should it not be DDA?

I saw this on LNER website (here) and wondered why/how we haven't had some cheesy slogan from any company or Nexus for any bus corridors. 
I am fully aware of the marketing (yet limited) for the Coast Road being the worst and in the most need but they could do the same for multiple corridors;
Great North Road (3 operators) {buses every few mins to Brunton/Melton Park via Great North Rd) 

Sunderland - Peterlee (2 operators) {buses every 7 mins to Ryhope and beyond with reinstating X6 half hourly or 62 hourly to plug the one gap for this to work}

I am unsure if the 684/685 have joint ticketing - would be logical though.

Some others which would be helpful 
Sunderland - South Shields (2 operators) this would be point to point rather than in between due to routing.
Chester Road (2 operators) unsure of combined freq of operators but would be every few mins
Arnison Centre - Durham (2 operators) unsure of combined freq of operators but would be every few mins

Anyone else have any suggestions?

One thing I noticed is that the weekly tickets that gets put into the ticket sleeve/colour thingy dyed by airpods case to green.

So be careful..it will come off eventually.

Seen on the news they are building a Park And Ride car park eoth shuttle buses fors anyone knoe what buses will run on it where they go and what operator

Fares going up again https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/latest-news/...re-changes

This has something that has been on my mind and someone mentioned it in a thread before but how do these actually work?

Does someone independent actually come in to do them or does Arriva just do MOT's for well Arriva etc. Seems a serious conflict of interest effectively doing your own MOT's and is kind of a bit pointless if you had questionable practices. Not saying anyone up here would do that, was just an example other than Rural Link or whatever name they are this week who I wouldn't put it past.

Rotala have agreed to acquire..
35 x 12.1m Volvo B8RLE MCV eVoRa Diesel Euro 6 
25 x 10.8m Volvo B8RLE MCV eVoRa Diesel Euro 6 
2 x 10.8 Streetlite Ultroliner Euro 6

The Aycliffe group have posted 2 open days being held on the 22nd of July & 2nd of December 

A new event teased on Facebook is the local event at Shildon seems to have now gone. A new event has now been moved to the running day at Oak Leaf Centre at Newton Aycliffe

Two more events have been confirmed as happening but no date or location yet

Whitley Bay has been cancelled again this year due to changes held on the links

Date confirmed as Monday 28th August