Diamond Bus North West

[iMarkeh]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(08/02/2021 23:30)Mayneway Wrote:  It’s speculation and the rumour has been doing that rounds for ages, but the truth is Eccles is somewhat more settled running wise than Bolton. I’d imagine they would look at maybe moving some work from Bolton to Eccles to balance the scales, plus a lot of these contracts going to a Goodwins are only 12 month contracts so potentially Diamond may want to retain Eccles for any future tender wins.

Must be a bit of a slap in the face for Diamond though. They acquired the bus side of GoGoodwins several years ago along with the Eccles yard and now they have snatched a lot of their work back off them. M

There may not need to be a lot moving as it depends on how much Diamond have won. I work out that they have lost around 8 buses worth of work.


Are Diamond still having driver shortages? Could this balance that out a little maybe?


As for your last comment, I do agree with you, a bit of a slap in the face for them but these sorts of things happen. Anti competition agreements only last so long from the buyout date and so this is the time up. I'm sure it has happened before whereby the person who got bought out then started up a new company a few years late doing the exact same thing once the shackles of no competition agreements are gone.