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RE: Warrington's Own Buses - mikestone - 27/08/2021 12:45
YJ04BKG , believed to belong to Hilton, NLW just photographed in Manchester carrying "on hire to Warringtons Own Buses"
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - knutstransport - 27/08/2021 13:18
(27/08/2021 12:45)mikestone Wrote: YJ04BKG , believed to belong to Hilton, NLW just photographed in Manchester carrying "on hire to Warringtons Own Buses"
A loan for something relating to Pride perhaps?
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - iMarkeh - 27/08/2021 13:32
(27/08/2021 12:45)mikestone Wrote: YJ04BKG , believed to belong to Hilton, NLW just photographed in Manchester carrying "on hire to Warringtons Own Buses"It's doing Creamfields Shuttles.
WOB doesn't have the drivers for it so it has been contracted out to Hiltons and Link Network. (Maybe some others).
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - iMarkeh - 30/08/2021 01:49
Some fair cuts coming to the WOB network as they struggle to cover work. Shame to see the 62 being shafted again. Are they taking tips from Arriva on how to kill off routes? No wonder hardly anyone with a choice doesn't use the 62 anymore. Halton 62s used to do really well.
Anyway, back to it.
CAT 6 has lost some trips.
20/21 down from every 10 to every 12 minutes.
32 is now dropped from every 15 mins to every 30 minutes. Huge drop.
62 has had Saturdays removed completely as well as a reduction in peak time trips.
Some new and reduced timetables on other routes. It'd be too time consuming to post each thing individually.
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - thomasl1231 - 30/08/2021 07:21
(30/08/2021 01:49)iMarkeh Wrote: Some fair cuts coming to the WOB network as they struggle to cover work. Shame to see the 62 being shafted again. Are they taking tips from Arriva on how to kill off routes? No wonder hardly anyone with a choice doesn't use the 62 anymore. Halton 62s used to do really well.
Anyway, back to it.
CAT 6 has lost some trips.
20/21 down from every 10 to every 12 minutes.
32 is now dropped from every 15 mins to every 30 minutes. Huge drop.
62 has had Saturdays removed completely as well as a reduction in peak time trips.
Some new and reduced timetables on other routes. It'd be too time consuming to post each thing individually.
They are very short on drivers at the moment, a few weeks ago they dropped 47 trips in one day! A friend has been offered agency work here, which may provide a short-term solution to the driver shortage (assuming they can get agency staff!).
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - chris-s - 30/08/2021 16:08
(30/08/2021 07:21)thomasl1231 Wrote: They are very short on drivers at the moment, a few weeks ago they dropped 47 trips in one day! A friend has been offered agency work here, which may provide a short-term solution to the driver shortage (assuming they can get agency staff!).
It's the same with arriva and stagecoach..shortage everywhere
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - iMarkeh - 30/08/2021 16:58
(30/08/2021 07:21)thomasl1231 Wrote: They are very short on drivers at the moment, a few weeks ago they dropped 47 trips in one day! A friend has been offered agency work here, which may provide a short-term solution to the driver shortage (assuming they can get agency staff!).I've heard of a number significantly higher than that for some days so there is a huge shortage.
Everywhere is suffering driver shortages, seems WOB has it worse than some other firms though based off this drop.
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - Mayneway - 30/08/2021 19:05
(30/08/2021 16:58)iMarkeh Wrote: I've heard of a number significantly higher than that for some days so there is a huge shortage.
Everywhere is suffering driver shortages, seems WOB has it worse than some other firms though based off this drop.
WOB isn’t on its own the company I work for in Manchester is massively short and are dropping loads of mileage at the moment.
Stagecoach Manchester recently used agency drivers to fulfil Metrolink replacement contracts - the first time I’ve known stagecoach even entertain agency drivers!
It’s bad at the moment and unless changes are made I can see it getting a lot worse.
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - Bevan Price - 30/08/2021 21:15
(30/08/2021 16:58)iMarkeh Wrote: I've heard of a number significantly higher than that for some days so there is a huge shortage.
Everywhere is suffering driver shortages, seems WOB has it worse than some other firms though based off this drop.
Heard on the radio - road haulage companies are effectively "pirating" bus drivers by offering big wage rises , because they are short of HGV drivers. Unfortunately, I don't think that many bus companies can match those wage increases.
RE: Warrington's Own Buses - Valandil - 30/08/2021 23:43
There are a few things which don't seem to make sense with the new timetables, linked here:
https://www.warringtonsownbuses.co.uk/service-change-6th-september-2021
Particularly the 11/12 seem to be missing Monday-Friday - or does a 1 really arrive at Westy at 07 past the hour and sit there until 19 past the hour to do a 2 back to town? On the timetable, it says 11/12 go via Farrell Street, but the "Saturday only" service shown doesn't seem to at least. These routes have been changed so much that it's hard to know what's going on on different days of the week.
With the 20/21 as well, the timetables say that vehicles stick on the routes, going round and round all day, so you don't have to switch vehicle at the Interchange if you want to go to anywhere on the route. Surely that is massively inefficient, as vehicles and drivers would often either get no time between trips at all meaning inevitable problems or be sat around for ages, particularly on Saturdays, and especially on Sundays.