My company were doing lots of hires and especially school trips but we’ve not done one of those in over a year now... we’ve had a handful of hires over the last year but they can probably be counted on one hand. It’s been home to school contracts that has kept us going, that’s always been the bread and butter but has literally been the only thing left, even if majority of them weren’t running. Oh and the scheduled bus service they started last year that some days has been the only thing out. I won’t say it’s making money but it’s holding its own at the minute. We’ve been doing a fair bit of rail replacement work to keep the bills paid, luckily they had the foresight to invest in the right types of vehicles for this. As for the future? We have corporate contracts starting to come back online, along with the home to school contracts back up to full strength, and I see us getting more into buses (which is the side I look after) in the future too. Time will tell what will be better but I think it’ll take a long time for the school hires to fill the middle of the day to come back.
