First Manchester

[M60lad]

RE: First Manchester
One of the main differences between Stagecoach and First these days is that First don't have many "SPARE" duties anymore whereby drivers would just sit waiting in the depot for traffic to contact them to cover or all or part of a duty, I think they have the odd spare driver but certainly not as many as they used to hence the problems at Pioneer these days. I remember in the past that Pioneer used to ring up Oldham Depot virtually regularly asking for drivers to cover.

The other problem at the moment is the drivers Pioneer used to use from various other depots are now needed by their home depots so can't cover as it would leave the drivers home depot short.

As for the driver making notes on his way to Ashton its a shame I wasn't about as I could have shown him where to go on the 348s as its one of the many routes I know off by heart