Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(29/09/2019 01:19)B10B6514 Wrote:  What is Rotala's plan for an alternative for the 90 odd Wrightbus Streetdecks remaining from their order now that Wrights have gone belly up?

Considering First will be expecting their loan vehicles back to cascade to other units and a schedule will be planned for those to return. Just saying.....

Nothing yet - there's no immediate rush. It's a case of wait & see what happens with Wrightbus initially, incase anyone takes on the business in some form.

The First loan vehicles are with DBNW for up to two years and will be returned in batches. There's certainly not 90 odd to be returned anytime soon. There's only the 11 x 14 plate Enviro400's that were due to be returned by 31st Dec 2019, the next batch of 10 deckers has until 30th June 2020. There's a large batch due back by 31st Dec 2020 i.e. the entire B7RLE fleet plus some more deckers.

Rotala have only taken 121 First loan vehicles, an extra B7RLE wasn't taken (69143).