GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Printable Version +- Forum | Merseyside Dennis Dart Website (http://dartslf.com/forum) +-- Forum: Buses (/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Local Bus Scene: North West and Wales (/forumdisplay.php?fid=2) +--- Thread: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) (/showthread.php?tid=30) Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 |
RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - wirralbus - 16/06/2016 11:10 Isnt the next step to start downsizing operations to fit in with the amount of drivers they have , subject to correct procedural requirements. RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Turbostar - 16/06/2016 11:13 Given the number of drivers GHA are hoping to recruit, I can understand why they may have engaged an agency to do the donkey work on their behalf. For GHA to review that sort of intake themselves would take a considerable resource in terms of time and money & it's probably more cost effective to farm this sort of work out given the numbers involved. It also allows prospective drivers to be recruited over a much wider area, giving the company more scope in the quest to get these new drivers in post as quickly as possible. RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - T42 PVM - 16/06/2016 11:54 They need to hurry up as am very surprised contracts have not been taken off them yet RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - solo - 16/06/2016 13:39 But Surely if endles recruitment adverts fail to attract the numbers or maybe quality that you require and you maybe have in general a higher than average turnover of staff then it would be time to sit down and have a talk with yourself. RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - motormayhem1 - 16/06/2016 14:39 Personally i think they have took on more than they can chew as i think there's a shortage of bus drivers across the uk and the ones out there are more likely to try to work for the bigger companies due to terms and conditions as the conditions can't be that great if there struggling for drivers. RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Depotosw - 18/06/2016 10:33 Tarvin are having a Going Half Arsed day today, no 84 runs and turns missing on the 82. Already seen a lot of fed up passengers at stops in Tarvin and Kelsall. It gets worse each time I try to sample the 82 and 84 routes. A shame really its all gone very unreliable and quite frankly not acceptable to the public and find it hard the management at Ruabon are allowing the situation to continue. Plan B it is then! RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - knutstransport - 18/06/2016 11:59 There wasn't any sign of a 27 bus at Knutsford bus station at 09:45 this morning but it could have been running late. The two 88 services I saw were running to time. It seems at least some 88 services are being operated by Winsford drivers opposed to Tarvin drivers and the idea of all GHA Gold services being operated by uniformed drivers has gone out of the window. RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - wirralbus - 18/06/2016 13:56 Somebody senior at GHA needs to get a grip of what is going on before the TC gets her mits on the company . RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Mayneway - 18/06/2016 19:37 The whole setup is embarrassing. How much longer before action is taken? If it is simply down to staffing issues then why arnt the issues being addressed. The fact there having to advertise for over 100 drivers suggests they have sat back and done nothing. As for the 84. They turned the screws so hard when another operator looked to be doing ok but surprise surprise once the compititon disapeared they cancel their 84 but am I the only person that isn't surprised that they have disapeared well before the 56 days notice. RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others) - Depotosw - 18/06/2016 20:02 (18/06/2016 19:37)Mayneway Wrote: The whole setup is embarrassing. The 84 setup is almost certainly down to staffing but who knows for sure. I visited on 4th June and all was running, the 6th nothing ran on it and on the 11th one vehicle ripped mid morning and another mid afternoon with one staying out all day. Previous visits in late May and some 84 runs were been dropped and some operated. The 82 dropping today is a new one that I have not seen before as the 82 is normally well run, A41 traffic at times excepted around Chester Races days, perhaps it will be blamed in the Tarvin Fate today, oh hang on they were missing before it started to close the main street in Tarvin. I gave up by 12:30 and enjoyed a normal day for a change! I'm not knocking GHA for the sake of it, when you spend time and money to go and sample the services you expect them to operate as they are registered to do so. When doing the 84 over previous weeks I didn't dare get off at Crewe and wait for the next run, stayed with the bus as some days you would have to walk back or get the ARRIVA 84 service if you didn't so the GHA Day Ticket was hardly providing value for money. In fairness to the staff, all were friendly and polite and the ones doing the job must be getting some grief from the general public for things been missing, some of the fed up faces seen over the last few weeks at bus stops sums it all up really. |