Cannock Garage

[Bob]

Christ, a citaro, b6s from stafford, a crappy old dart on long term hire from telford, and sb120 from burton, is cannock having issues? Lol

[arrivadays]

a crappy old dart on long term hire from telford

What Dart would this be?

[Bob]

S629 khn. Its terrible jerky fearbox etc, only thing its got goin for it is retrimmed seats

[arrivaaston]

The citaro has moved on to shresbury to help with the flowershow, the 2 b6's not out today possibly returned or also made trackjs to shrewsburyn s629khn 2361 is still soldering on on Pye Green Circular services

[nitromatt1]

S629 khn. Its terrible jerky fearbox etc, only thing its got goin for it is retrimmed seats

Fearbox? Was that deliberate? lol

[Bob]

Lol na but I see ur point lol. S629 khn prob kept on pye greens in case it bosts down lol. Seen s351 yog with loadsa black smoke comin out its back end lmao

[arrivadays]

S629 khn. Its terrible jerky fearbox etc, only thing its got goin for it is retrimmed seats

Oh, yeah! Forgot about that!

[Bob]

Apparently theres some big-ish changes to routes and timetables in cannock area as of 1st sept.  Arriva, crap as ever havent even put them on their website yet!

[Bob]

EJZ is obviously not withdrawn it was in service at cannock bus station this morning.  Thought we'd seen the back of it lol. One of the worst for constantly breaking down!

[andy]

EJZ is obviously not withdrawn it was in service at cannock bus station this morning.  Thought we'd seen the back of it lol. One of the worst for constantly breaking down!

Has it crossed your mind that maybe they noticed and have been rectifying it?

[arrivadays]

@bob,

I thought you said 2274 (FK52MML) was coming back to Telford?

[Bob]

It did do didnt it? Also rectified?  It kept being rectified sometimea every other day and towed back, then out in service two days later to break down again. The scrapman wouldve been better its a heap of junk tbf

[andy]

It did do didnt it? Also rectified?  It kept being rectified sometimea every other day and towed back, then out in service two days later to break down again. The scrapman wouldve been better its a heap of junk tbf

I'm not doubting that it did, but sometimes it takes 3 or 4 incidences of a breakdown for fitters to be able to diagnose the cause of a fault. It's always been the way. Bus breaks down, fitter rectifies fault, fault reoccurs, fitter rectifies again....this can keep happening until eventually there is no desperate need to keep pushing it back out on the road as a spare maybe brought in, allowing for the vehicle to be booked in for proper diagnosis and then the source of the recurring fault is identified and rectified. It is all about time available, and if the garage is short of buses, they will always be pushed back out on the road.

[Bob]

Fair point but cannock garage suffers a hell of a lot of breakdowns to the point where services can be unreliable.  I know nxwm have buses breaking down but from what ive seen its a bit less than cannock. Especially when buses are actually in service

[Bob]

All the mpds should go theyre too small for the 33 etc and the full size darts and b6 are too big for most stafford routes. Why not exchange? The only stafford route that possibly requires anythin bigger than an mpd is the 9, and that isnt all the time