Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

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RE: Classic Bus North West

(23/12/2013 18:24)robertclark125 Wrote:  I'm just thinking on better alternatives, and the list is long; Optare Versa, MAN 18.220, Volvo B10BLE, Enviro 300, VDL SB120, Scanias various offerings, Volvo B7L. And, no doubt, if they'd been looked after beforehand, even better.

Robert, you can't really flag those buses up as being better so directly, as has been stated before they are being expected to run up and down the motorway non stop all day.

In my honest opinion, they would have fared better buying long distance coaches for the services, simply because of the fact that they are designed for that kind of work. Buses (more notably, bendybuses) are built for stop-start bus routes - not intercity running.

It was a silly move in the first place, I knew it wouldn't last the day I heard about it.

As for ClassicBus as a whole, I don't know a lot about them but I'm guessing they were doing a lot better beofre they started the X70.