Manchester Community Transport

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester Community Transport

(20/02/2020 21:09)knutstransport Wrote:  Is that '3 spare' a rumour or a fact? They awarded the 289/188 contract to Howard's when they only had the Metrocity which met the requirement and permitted D&G to use 33 seater Streetlites on services where the tender specified 35 seats, to allow the Evos to be used on other routes, rather than being backup buses for Solo routes. Hardly sound like the same council who would specify an operator must have 5 buses to run a route which needs 2.

I was and still am heavily involved with the nighttime shunting and allocating at MCT so it’s more fact than rumour.
You have 3 vehicles in the fleet that meet the tender spec ( part of the agreement of us winning the contract was that brand new vehicles were used) and it seems a pair of slightly older vehicles in the same livery (67 plates) which we could get away as using as replacements but CEC were insistent that nothing else was used. So when one of the spares is on loan to another company within the group and you have two of the 19 plates off for faults what do you allocate as your third bus??
Obviously you send something half decent but CEC are never happy in these Instances.