HTL Buses

[CX06 EBK (Administrator)]

RE: HTL Buses
Well they are buying a bus that they will see 18 months out of, which they got for less than that figure (I know it was on eBay for that amount) - it is cheaper than hiring a bus for that time period. Like I say they bought 3 Solos 6 years newer than this one from a dealer down south and all of them required far more work to bring them up to scratch than this has. Hire buses come with their own problems too, I haven't seen a single hire bus arrive at HTL that didn't need some form of work doing on it before entering service and that includes the most recent arrival YX18KVS.

Yeah it probably won't get painted, simply put they don't have the buses to afford the downtime on getting something painted up at the moment. Even now they are still using the VW Transporters temporarily. YJ61MOA is due to return to service shortly after a lengthy period off and then they should have MOF in for RTC repairs beyond that. There is supposedly another full size bus coming for the schools too but as I say on the other side they have lost YJ12PLZ to an accident. Hardly ideal but they have things like DK08AZO and DK08AYV which for all the trouble they cause should just be replaced, the 06 plate Darts were meant to go this year but because of COVID and the way Merseytravel are managing contracts at the moment they have been given an extension on keeping them but they are very tired buses these days.