The reason the lower car deck is cleared first in East Cowes is so we can off-load/load any drop trailers we may have whilst the upper car deck is offloaded (with pauses to allow the shunter to spin the trailer), also to allow any mezzanine decks to be lowered, cleared and either stowed or reloaded of cars, doing it this way means we are able to stay on time.
We are limited on space in East Cowes as you are aware, as we are aware and as are the council. One day we may get some more space and be able to offload 2 decks at a time.
Appreciate the answer lewisrday. I understand why you guys do it and compared to Wightlink you're a 5* service and always on time. Hopefully the service on December 27th is on time and completely empty