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The issue is that this information has to come from the conversion supplier however in this case they have gone bust so its not as straightforward as with nx @Tony

It has been converted to euro 6

That will never happen as it has not been converted to route 6 & therefore be non compliant on the contract.

KCV was only ever used once on stage carriage work & was sold to alan Hardwick for scrap several months ago.
As pointed out BOF is still in fleet it was the sister bus BOH that was sold to compass & is now registered PBZ8343

Old photo BOH has not been in the fleet for 5 years now

Claribels have only ever briefly operated one bus into the evening over a decade ago & have never operated on.a sunday

I haven't been on one since the revenge of the bat, but they all used to have announcements in a make voice

We only have v & y, my ticketer portal dies not show any vehicle logging in as nyz

Remember there could be a timing difference between your watch/device & the drivers etm. The ETM time is the drivers Bible even if it is incorrect the driver should be running to it

Since capacity isn't an issue it makes sense to use streelites, newer & more fuel efficient

i cannot understand why the management keep some of these solos with all the problems that come with them , that 104 for one,  is so unreliable its an embarrassment. Again today pye green ploughed with the full sized saloons whilst interurban busy routes have to endure cramped unreliable solos ,  or twin door small seating capacity ex London spec things.
The amount of lost mileage and revenue with these abortion solo heaps of scrap must be eye watering.
Shame as was kind of hoping chaserider would of been a better option for our area than the previous lot , sadly not, they are in desperate need of some decent sized capacity vehicles for the interurban work. Perhaps form a vehicle interworking allocation cycle of the 60/74/826/828 with some decent sized capacity vehicles, cramped small solos at school times is a joke on these routes.

It's worth remembering though that they took over in the height of the pandemic, passenger numbers have failed to return in any significant quantities & current funding does not make up for the losses bus companies are making on a daily basis. Plus funding is most likely to take another drop in 70 days time and as it stands at present there is no commitment from the dft to pay anything more than 90% encts payments.

In those circumstances most operators would struggle

The 70 frequency was only really artificially uplifted as an indirect competition against Select. Was only ever viable as an hourly service

Versa on there today as well

Do you realise how much it costs to start a new route? Claribels have cut off services in favour of tenders I can't see them starting anything new commercially especially with the current ongoing situation. As well as that I doubt Claribels would want them, their fleet is all Euro 6 apart from 3 vehicles...

We will always look at any commercial opportunities, there just isnt any at present. As stated they aren't euro 6 & I doubt nx would sell them to a competitor anyway

I predict a larte cut in the UK bus network around April 2022