Diamond Bus North West

[Mayneway]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(23/09/2020 18:42)33109 Wrote:  From what I've seen today it appears diamond have had a rethink & bucked their ideas up! Much smarter overall image than I've seen of them for a long while now.

A driver mate of mine at first has a friend who works at diamond & says it's apparently getting slowly better bit by bit.

Hopefully this'll last & diamond will keep improving.

Yes they have invested (or leased) a load of basic spec deckers that happen to be allocated mainly to the 163, as it happens to compete on Rochdale road, but look between the cracks and you still see plenty of scruffy unkept buses with failed destination blinds and bits of paper stuck in the windows.
Everyone always comments on Bolton but what about Eccles. Most of the Solos there are past there best and look scruffy, several buses still knocking about in Preston bus livery and from what I’ve seen and been told today they have lost some more work come October.

As for drivers, one of my colleagues who’s worked all over the ok with Meridian agency reckons they are currently supplying Bolton depot with agency drivers and the contract they have signed suggests they will be supplying a lot more!