None DDA Buses still in Service?

[Quackdave]

RE: None DDA Buses still in Service?

(07/01/2016 00:03)Quackdave Wrote:  (Re Y-- TDA batch of Darts) DVLA records the year of manufacture for these Darts as 2001. So surely these must be compliant?

Forget the above - having looked at the body numbers (00 prefix) and chassis numbers (lower than those of some vehicles that entered service in October 2000), it looks as though the DVLA year of manufacture 2001 may be wrong, and that they could well have been manufactured before October 2000 and therefore exempt until last week.

[Depotosw]

RE: None DDA Buses still in Service?

(07/01/2016 00:15)Quackdave Wrote:  Forget the above - having looked at the body numbers (00 prefix) and chassis numbers (lower than those of some vehicles that entered service in October 2000), it looks as though the DVLA year of manufacture 2001 may be wrong, and that they could well have been manufactured before October 2000 and therefore exempt until last week.

The Y-TDAs were manufactured in 2000 and were delay registered on 1st March 2001 by ARRIVA Midlands North for route 6 in Crewe to allow them to have Y prefixes opposed to X and that is why they are not DDA. A shame really they were not converted mid life as part of P&P.

[WhiteVanMan]

RE: None DDA Buses still in Service?

(07/01/2016 00:15)Quackdave Wrote:  Forget the above - having looked at the body numbers (00 prefix) and chassis numbers (lower than those of some vehicles that entered service in October 2000), it looks as though the DVLA year of manufacture 2001 may be wrong, and that they could well have been manufactured before October 2000 and therefore exempt until last week.

Never trust DVLA year of Manufacture, always go by the VIN number.

I once had a Ford Escort, which according to DVLA was built in 1998, yet according to the VIN number it was built two-years previous in 1996.

[RedPanda]

RE: None DDA Buses still in Service?

(07/01/2016 16:18)WhiteVanMan Wrote:  Never trust DVLA year of Manufacture, always go by the VIN number.

I once had a Ford Escort, which according to DVLA was built in 1998, yet according to the VIN number it was built two-years previous in 1996.

Chasis made in 1996 and DVLA registered it in 1998? How off topic we are lol