Howards/Springfield

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RE: Howards/Springfield

(11/08/2018 12:02)motormayhem1 Wrote:  Running on 2 licences can have its benefits as if you go up in front of the traffic commissioner for any reason and they say they are withdrawing some o licences then they can only take it off the licence thats up in front of them.
Hence why stagecoach run under previous operators licences but with the stagecoach brand.

Doesn't need to be that way. Arriva Wales and Arriva Midlands both operate in the North West TC's area but if Arriva North West were sanctioned, Arriva Wales and Arriva Midlands would be unaffected. Arriva could also break up their business in to smaller operators if they wanted e.g. have Arriva Cheshire, Arriva Greater Manchester, Arriva Merseyside etc.

Stagecoach have a tradition of operating under non-Stagecoach brands from when they set up new companies with similar sounding names to existing companies in an attempt to trick the public in to thinking they were using a nice local company with modern buses, not a big greedy corporate company trying to force the little company off the road. Then when the little company went out of business the Stagecoach branded buses got brought in.