HTL Buses

[Mayneway]

RE: HTL Buses

(13/11/2021 13:08)CX06 EBK Wrote:  They can hardly take the contracts off them when Merseytravel agreed to all the service changes and combine that with a nationwide driver shortage who were they going to pass the contracts to locally when Cumfybus have their own driver shortages and Stagecoach and Arriva still aren't even operating their own services properly.

As for the routes themselves, aside from the daytime 188 I'm not entirely sure what is urgently needed back. The evening 135/144s are more used on the trips now than they were before and the 174 is one of those routes that HTL had tried to give back before but Merseytravel had not had any success finding a replacement operator.

The comment about Merseytravel and the driver shortage has surprised me. I assumed the reduced levels of service were down to covid and not the driver shortage. I work for a big op on Manchester who like everywhere else has been hit hard by the shortage but priority is given to making sure the tenders and schools are covered, and as far as I’m aware very little if any TFGM tendered work has been dropped due to staffing shortages.