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RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - Brickmill - 25/01/2019 21:36
(25/01/2019 17:58)darylyates17 Wrote: I’ve just heard off a Hattons Driver that the 141 might be going as well apprently Hattons will give it another month or two and then get rid if things don’t improve
Plus the legally required 10 weeks notice, I trust
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - iMarkeh - 28/02/2019 14:22
Hattons have put in lots of new registrations today 28 and 141 are changing. Brand new 141A and 28A (to Haydock Industrial Estate) and they have won the 133 at the St Helens tender round.
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - St Helens Rider - 28/02/2019 15:23
I wonder if some of this is linked to a story I seen last week in St Helens Star where the company was asking retailers on Ravenhead Retail Park for short term funding so they could enhance services round there in connection with the opening of the new M&S store.
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - RedPanda - 28/02/2019 17:26
(28/02/2019 14:22)iMarkeh Wrote: Hattons have put in lots of new registrations today 28 and 141 are changing. Brand new 141A and 28A (to Haydock Industrial Estate) and they have won the 133 at the St Helens tender round.A few routes may well be extended or rerouted once Haydock Industrial Estate is complete. It’s a good move there from Hattons.
(28/02/2019 15:23)St Helens Rider Wrote: I wonder if some of this is linked to a story I seen last week in St Helens Star where the company was asking retailers on Ravenhead Retail Park for short term funding so they could enhance services round there in connection with the opening of the new M&S store.
Doubt it very much
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - iMarkeh - 28/02/2019 17:45
I have just thought about this and correct me if I am wrong but could these be placement trips given Hattons is based at Haydock Industrial Estate? Dead millage trips to get the bus to Newton or St Helens.
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - St Helens Rider - 28/02/2019 19:23
(28/02/2019 17:26)RedPanda Wrote: Doubt it very much
Found link to online story:
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/17437024.bus-provider-in-talks-over-putting-on-extra-services-to-retail-park/
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - RedPanda - 28/02/2019 20:01
(28/02/2019 19:23)St Helens Rider Wrote: Found link to online story:
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/17437024.bus-provider-in-talks-over-putting-on-extra-services-to-retail-park/
Yes, I’m sure some staff will use the service as will regular elderly M&S folk. But I don’t think there’s enough demand for all the retail unit’s staff and shoppers. Currently you’re lucky if the bus is a quarter full. Most of whom are passes. Where’s the extra money coming from?
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - St Helens Rider - 28/02/2019 20:36
(28/02/2019 20:01)RedPanda Wrote: Yes, I’m sure some staff will use the service as will regular elderly M&S folk. But I don’t think there’s enough demand for all the retail unit’s staff and shoppers. Currently you’re lucky if the bus is a quarter full. Most of whom are passes. Where’s the extra money coming from?
That is why they are asking the retailers on there to give them some short term funding to get these improvements started but the article also stresses that the public must play their part by using these services or else they won't be viable.
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - T42 PVM - 03/03/2019 10:00
YT51 EAP is back on this reg plate, N60 RFL Plate now on a Volvo built in 1997 (Any further information would be welcome). YT51 EAP is showing as SORN still.
RE: Hattons Travel (Nip On Transport) - Scania1996 - 05/03/2019 22:10
(03/03/2019 10:00)T42 PVM Wrote: YT51 EAP is back on this reg plate, N60 RFL Plate now on a Volvo built in 1997 (Any further information would be welcome). YT51 EAP is showing as SORN still.
T42 PVM, I have heard off a mutual friend of ours (Jordan) that this plate is now on a ex Stagecoach Alexander bodied Volvo Olympian