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They already seemed to have paused them. Many of the West Brom 4900s are in desperate need of a refurbishment and repaint. A few received it last year but none so far this year.

The 12s and 13s needed deckers for years but it seemingly suffers from more Scanias than ever

6986 currently being debranded

4481 now has a slipping gearbox! Sounds astonishing, never thought I'd hear a slipping B7 again

Police only interested if you say hurty hurty words on social media

Cringe

I saw one of the grey 47s getting a brand new engine a few weeks ago, mostly likely 4769. So it probably has a whole new engine nevermind just a gearbox

4775 in service today on the 80

6972 now debranded

6974 had a smash this afternoon at Smethwick

WB have lost the 20/20a from 1st June, not sure whose got those, 48 is changing too from the same date, will be doing West Brom to Northfield, as it is now to the University Station then will be doing the 76 route to Northfield.
48a is also being completely scrapped. The Bearwood rota is taking a massive hit cos will be sharing the 74 and 80 with the soho rota to.

Wouldn't it therefore be pointless having the Bearwood rota at that point? Exactly the same as Soho

[supposedly]

With the 20 supposedly going to BC Garage how would that impact the interworking that the 48 20 and 20A have.
I doubt it will due to the three routes interworking but it could happen.

That's not what's going to happen. BC will have a new route

You'd be surprised how many of these chancers there are out there.

Had a drunk passenger tell me she was going to sue and that I need to be careful with brakes after she fell... when I took off from traffic lights! Thought she wasn't serious about it until the company called me for details about the incident because she tried to sue! Obviously she had zero leg to stand thanks to CCTV

4744 - it's amazing how different a bus can be after just a month or two. This was rapid the last time I had it, now it's a horrible slug, jolty and brakes terribly.

4690 - Quick but very rough. 

4479 - Lovely bus to drive. Smooth, quick, good brakes, excellent suspension. With one or two exceptions the ex PB Geminis are lovely to drive, much better than those ex Coventry Voith ones 

4688, 4768, 4773, and 4951 all fixed. This means that all WB buses are fixed

Credible rumours going around that the Bearwood rota will take up 74 and 80 duties in the coming weeks. Obviously some drivers are not happy about this, but I think it's fair and makes sense. Bearwood and Soho should just be merged, and I have a feeling that might happen when the 1st of June changes come the details of which I'm probably not allowed to divulge 
 

6991 finally fixed

6989 also fixed

Just seen 6971 without its 82/87 branding replaced with that ugly sticker slapped on it. Feels weird seeing it without the branding

Out of curiosity, what exactly are the stereotypes?

To make your life easier apply to whichever garage is closest 

The rest of the rota includes 80 and what Bearwood has except 20/A. Good luck getting any of the nice Bearwood routes like the 48/A, Bearwood drivers have those routes most of the time whilst Soho are stuck on 74.

Yes those are the 4 rotas. Seperately there's also the X8 morning working and a few school routes