Remaining Independents in Merseyside

[mr t]

RE: Remaining Independents in Merseyside

(25/02/2019 11:15)iMarkeh Wrote:  I am more thinking, just smaller companies like Jim Stones in Leigh, they do between school runs and lots of little local runs which make enough to keep them going. D&G do loads of between school routes. Arrowebrook is another good example of this. Running their 26 in between the school runs. It's just little things to keep the bus busy but it provides lots of local links for residents which they would never get with the big companies.

I think it is a bit harsh to say the business would fail as there are independents who are starting up and making money. Though not many startups succeed, some do.

And what other services do you propose running in Merseyside that only run 9 til 2? that can fill buses up!- hardly time for ANY route to make any money making local links that cost money to run and might get 1 or 2 people on who would probably be OAPs given most are in school or in work! As for any startups people no longer want to grow up and run as bus company plus they need to find depot, maintenance facilities, vehicles, drivers and have financial backing, so where do you propose they find all that in this day and age along with minimal reward from Merseytravel for tickets and contracts getting chopped, the great myticket that halved under 16s revenue, and the national OAP passes that started last 8 years which actually fill your buses up you think are always busy and making profits day in day out, and less fuel revenue, minimum wage increases and insurance, - the exact reason why so so many companies have gone to the wall across the country over the last 8 years, even First Manchester/Chester/Wirral, and depots shrinking also because of the cost of replacing older vehicles with newer DDA standard which is the law now- - I really want to know, as im sure everyone else on here does, how on earth you plan to run your company and make so much money that you always go on about is out their for companie are missing out on day after day, so you can take on Arriva and Stagecoach in every other post on here - you seem to know everything so go do it yourself and show us and the other companies how to do it, fill alllll these gaps in Merseyside & Cheshire with your full buses, that you go on about in every thread