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Correct, some may have yard staff but it is few and far between, even the big operators in our region clean their own vehicles, granted they get to have a drive through automatic bus wash, but it's still the driver that has to operate it and also do the other bits like the inside

@simoningram Tacho records speed, on a paper tacho it draws a line like a graph to what speed you are doing, with a digital tacho it reads it onto the card, the speed in KPH is shown on the tacho unit, I *believe* DVSA can see what speed was done where but don't quote me on that. In any event a company vehicle tracker will have information, our tracker will show what speed was done where on the route the vehicle took, so anyone claiming a vehicle was speeding the company would easily be able to check.

Thank you! Hope all goes well!!

Is indeed!

Thank you, Merry Christmas, looking forward to making some more next year!

Thank you very much Merry Xmas to you too!

Thank you!!

You welcome

Thank you very much!

And to you thank you!

Yutong's have certainly changed I must admit I thought all Yutong's are Cummins but there are other options then? I have seen the Excelsior GT12's at a show, it does look nice and they have the similar 3 different mirrors on the left but a bit bigger

Ahhh! Explains why I haven't seen manyi4's and the ones I have seen seem to be high density that's why then! The most recent i4 I've seen was a 23 plate, all over white with Babcock legals, turns out the military have purchased a small handful if these i4's You are correct with the 3+2's and I have heard of vehicles with a 3+2 turning up on rail replacement and then being sent away, on these they are usually narrower seat's maybe they think it would be less comfortable on a train than the layout of a coach..?

Yes! The right hand bend heading to the BP garage seems to be a slight pinch point for no apparent reason! Much like the roundabout at the top of Paxcroft where the new road towards Wicks is, taking the first left exit towards the fire station is a funny one as it's not round, it has a strange kink in it for some reason!

No surprise! 😂this one has been savaged a bit too from it's previous life, but it's due for a re-trim next year

Looks nice, very low mileage as well, plenty of life left in that. I know a local coach company to me (PC Coaches of Lincoln) have quite a few Irizars, think most of theirs have the Scania power plant.

@robgaskell2391 Luckily, the running vehicle still had his wheelchair space available 😅 but yes, it's a bit nerve-racking when you hope it's not needed on the last run! Wouldn't have had time to do it back at the yard

@james143611 aye the job would be a lot easier if tachographs weren't a thing 😆

It's been there since August, happened on coach bay at Southampton no idea how, drilled and filled hasn't moved in all those months, not covered on warranty either, cheaper to fix it than replace whole screen, especially when it's just over a year old!

Was looking forward to relaxing with my coffee, quick puff outside and all that, saved it for when I got to station and that went out the window! 🤣 Not just me who takes 20 minutes to move 4 rows then! I have had a couple of times I've had to get the cloth and hammer to bang a handle off the tracking!

@james143611 all sorts of tricks needed! 😆

Pretty much, it went VOR in 2022 when the propshaft decided to come off, towed back to base, threw some money getting it sorted, first time back on the road after a few months off the road it didn't even make it to the start of the school run, towed back again, shoved at back of yard and that was the end of it's service

Everyone at our yard called it 'Mighty', not just because the end letters of the reg were 'MTE' but it had the bigger block over the other Bova's we had, right old power train that was! The propshaft decided to come off and then after that was done it lasted only half an hour and something else went seriously wrong (can't remember what it was now) but it was towed back to yard again, and that was that it was decided to take spares off of it and then went to Wrigleys for scrap

This one wasn't too bad a bit odd as it feels sloppy and its far too forward as well, but hydraulic shift was alright actually, the manuals with the linkage system was interesting, I remember one of them you knew you were in first when your knuckles hit the dashboard 😂

@@james143611 yes, my friend's was the linkage system.