Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

[MTL0201]

RE: First Chester & Wirral

(13/12/2012 13:55)kuyoyo Wrote:  

(13/12/2012 13:51)MTL0201 Wrote:  

(12/12/2012 22:19)SNL 824 Wrote:  It would be madness. But I thought there were now limits on the length of normal stopping services - hence the carving up of the Cymru Coastliner a number of years back..

It's an EU regulation any route over 30 miles must have Tachos fitted & drivers driving no more than 8 hours a day, but the flaw were the bus company can avoid the regulation is, the bus company can split routes like Stagecoach X2/2X which count as separate registrations but same bus/driver operates the entire journey & passengers can buy through tickets & stay on the bus when the number changes.

Regulation is any routes over 50km, which works out at about 34 miles, must be operated by Tacho fitted vehicles and the drivers limited to maximum hours of 9 hours a day (maximum before a break of 4 and a half hours - domestic is 11 hours split into 5.5 hours before a break).

I thought it was 30 miles, i get it, that it's 50K with Europe using the Metric system. The 5 Llandudno-Caernarfon only Eastbound journeys falls victim to this because of a double run, so Eastbound 5 changes numbers at Bangor to get around the rules. Westbound journeys are unaffected.