Slightly off-topic "tenders"

[wirralbus]

RE: Slightly off-topic "tenders"
Why such large differences on there tenders , if a vehicle can not be used for more than 15 years on a tender in the first place , Merseytravel have put extra costs on the operators by saying that if they use a vehicle on the first 8 yrs of a contract , the vehicle has to be replaced before the second 8 yrs is up , whereas TfGM can get full utilisation out of a vehicle for the full cycle of upto 3 tenders , strange as it may seem , some vehicles can easily make the 3 full cycles but some envitably wont be fit enough though.