We're really not making any progress are we ?
**HOW** do you know that '.......half the services are profitable'
Well we are making progress, as I've already explained the following:
a) 376 has had new vehicles in the last year
b) 173, 174 and 126 have/all are receiving refurbished B7s
Bus companies are not allowed to run bus services on a loss - FSW has explained that many times on the forum. I explained that 375 and 377 were breaking even - they moved to BoS in May and are still operating - meaning they aren't loss making.
Usually First invest in new vehicles for profitable services. Therefore when James Freeman was quoted saying that 376 is one of the most profitable services, I would tend to think that 376 is the most profitable.
You do realise with such comments as "we're not getting anywhere", you are giving yourself a reputation for pushing people off the forum (or nearly in my case). I would very much appreciate that if you are going to continuously have a dig at me, you be a little more professional about it, as this forum is in view of the public. There are many people who will back me up on saying that Wells is not the main focus of the losses. You don't need to have all the facts and figures in front of you to work it out either. Maybe you should also try out the Wells services rather than just accusing that I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Steve White has updated his First Group Fleetlist as at January 2017.
I usually look at what fleet is Y reg and older (it was acting as a rough estimate for the number of non-DDA vehicles left, but as the DDA deadline has now gone, it shows the age profile a bit of the fleet). So according to his fleetlist for the group the following have vehicles which are Y reg and older (so about 16 years old and older now). Eventually I'm going to get around to looking at fleet which is up to the age of 2003 (53), which I'm personally expecting First to withdraw nearly all of that by the end of 2020.
Vehicles Y reg and older
Aberdeen 8 deckers, 19 singles
Balfron 1 single
Banockburn 2 deckers
Bradford 9 deckers, 7 singles
Bridgend 2 singles
Bath 5 deckers, 2 bendies
Bolton 5 singles
Bridgwater 3 deckers, 2 singles
Bury 4 deckers, 12 singles, 1 bendy
Blantyre 8 deckers
Camborne 25 deckers, 3 singles, 3 coaches
Doncaster 9 singles
Great Yarmouth 10 deckers
Huddersfield 10 deckers, 1 single
Hadleigh 2 singles
Hoeford 4 deckers, 1 single
Hunslet Park 7 singles
Halifax 9 deckers, 9 singles
Caledonia 12 deckers
Bramley 1 decker, 10 singles
Lowestoft 2 deckers
Lawrence Hill 6 deckers
Larbert 3 deckers, 2 singles
Olive Grove 3 deckers, 2 single
Oldham 4 deckers, 5 singles
Overtown 9 singles
Port Talbot 4 singles
Ravenhill 1 single
Rusholme 7 deckers
Scotstoun 1 single
Southampton 6 deckers, 2 single
Taunton 4 singles
Weymouth 3 deckers
Weston 2 deckers
Worcester 2 coaches
York 1 single
In total, 146 deckers, 120 singles, 5 coaches and 3 bendies Y reg and older (total 274).
There's bound to be certain things wrong in this list and there are some older vehicles which are planned to come back into operation (Weymouth for example). I'm sure many people are going to ask what the point of this calculation and post is, but its just to give you a rough estimate of how much old fleet is in the First fleet at the moment. As I say when I have some time, I will have a look at what fleet First have which is 53 reg and older to give more of an idea of the age profile.
I hope some people find this interesting, although I'm sure some will come up with some comments which have been covered/answered before.