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Are Perry Barr type trained on volvos then?

They've had them on loan before a few years ago now.

Clearly type trained otherwise it wouldn't not be out in service!

I said that some west brom drivers on dead run go under sandwell and dudley heading from oldbury to west brom garage. There was one time however where i was waiting for a bus from the train station and the driver driving the platinum stopped in the middle of the road as he realised he went wrong way so i helped him reverse back and then he turned into the road and helped him back out again. i don't see how me saying west brom use this way on dead run is my not understanding. all i said is passengers aren't moaning about the current diversion shame it couldn't be made permant.

As @wbdriver has said it's been told by the management that any one going under the bridge will be disciplined and as you said you've seen them go under. I suggest you think before you speak before you land people in trouble with you serious allegations of you apparently seeing buses going under!

West Brom still take buses under there on way to garage I've seen it happen so many times.

So they are breaking the rules then...

They quite simply shouldn't be going under there, with them being exempt it's been said from NX.

What part you don't understand that these routes can't be Decker operated I don't understand.

The only exception of the Double Deckers outside of City is the 6 mostly 4566, E400, StreetDeck, E400 Trident and the 7 as that interworks with it and the 10 has Double Deckers but the last few days has used Omnilinks and B7's. But all Spare Double Deckers Should be used on the City Services. I do believe yesterday after 6761 had worked the 881 and the 34 it was put onto the 934. And Tony has already said all Bradford Place Services don't use Double Deckers as they come out of service under Bridgeman Street. The only exception being the School boards and evening 37

I know that as I just said all of them are near enough Singles! I don't know why you needed to post all that, a handful of Deckers don't make tonnes of difference.

Contrary to the point Walsall don't have enough doubles for their other services let alone the 4's.

You haven't thought this through have you:
Where would you get the double deckers from ? With single deckers already appearing on double decker routes in Birmingham, especially YW services 2 and 3, also frequently appearing on PB services 7, 33, 65, 67 and 907. Which routes would have to lose its double deckers to put on to the 4s ?

Exactly there's not enough Deckers let alone swap a whole allocation.

Near enough all of Walsall's 'non City' services are mainly single deckers so I'm not sure where these other Deckers are thought to come from? The 997 and X51?

I believe 4177 was also fitted with a different Engine to the Other Tridents

4177 was one of a few 41** Tridents to have the Euro 4 engine as well as 4586/4619/4633/4

6761 on 997.

NX Streetdeck being hooked up to a recovery vehicle at Masshouse.

The Coventry dd currently on loan to Walsall is out this morning, parked in St Pauls Street, but showing Not In Service currently.

4770 and it's a transfer not a loan.

To stop people like me assuming the B7 is the unusual allocation on the 4. I've only ever seen the B7 on the 4 once before I reported that Time so I thought it was Unusual

B7RLE's (both the MK1 and MK2) have always been common on the 4's for quite some years now, you've clearly not seen many...

Walsall don't really differentiate between the types either. 

I'm pretty sure 4929 had it when it was at West Bromwich, then went to Wolverhampton where I think it got repainted then went to Birmingham central I'm sure.

4928-4937 all had it, they all got debranded when they was branded for the 5.

do 4938 and 4939 carry the same black livery as when they were on 902 904 and 905?

The black travel card branding is original to when they was new in 2013 yes. 

Oh Ok, that's intresting I did wonder when the WB batch would start to be painted some still look smart some look battered.

As a whole they look a lot tidier than BC's red/white E400's which look a right state a lot of them.

That would explain why the 4-branded OmniLinks keep appearing on other services.

Anyway, if you know this is a fact, why not report it in the thread for the Usual Allocations sheet, so that I can check and update it?

I used to but half the time no one bothered to reply so I don't see why I should now.

@BlackCountryBusSpotter, B7's are far from noteworthy on the 4's, they appear everyday on there!