Manchester Community Transport

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RE: Manchester Community Transport

(21/02/2020 05:15)Mayneway Wrote:  I was and still am heavily involved with the nighttime shunting and allocating at MCT so it’s more fact than rumour.
You have 3 vehicles in the fleet that meet the tender spec ( part of the agreement of us winning the contract was that brand new vehicles were used) and it seems a pair of slightly older vehicles in the same livery (67 plates) which we could get away as using as replacements but CEC were insistent that nothing else was used. So when one of the spares is on loan to another company within the group and you have two of the 19 plates off for faults what do you allocate as your third bus??
Obviously you send something half decent but CEC are never happy in these Instances.

If MCT said it is their intention to loan out the spare bus, maybe that's why CEC asked they had something else that met the spec especially as you have also said there have been reliability issues with the ABS on the normal buses.