A fool and his money..... Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 25 minutes ago, Ringy Rose said: It certainly wasn’t a nominal sum, but clearly a ten year old bus doesn’t sell for brand new prices. Although the Citaros do hold their value, even a 15 year old Citaro will set you back about £15k+VAT. The others were sold for a lot less than that! As for £100k new bus costing £10k per year, how much is citaro new? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 17 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: The others were sold for a lot less than that! As for £100k new bus costing £10k per year, how much is citaro new? Why don’t you use Google!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Just now, Banker said: Why don’t you use Google!! Don't think they sell them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Here's some information from FoI (ref: 2096369): 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Colombe Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 (edited) No more than 100,000 miles in 7 years? That's nothing. I'd expect them to be doing that in a couple of years. Edited June 8 by La Colombe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 7 years would be it’s amortisation. It’s value of zero in the books, so let’s buy some new ones regardless of whether the bus is in perfect order to use. Any sale value then would be a profit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Gizo said: 7 years would be it’s amortisation. It’s value of zero in the books, so let’s buy some new ones regardless of whether the bus is in perfect order to use. Any sale value then would be a profit. Yes, perfect example of doggedly following accounting principles, while ignoring cash management. Edited June 8 by Gladys Typo 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two-lane Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 This is some mileage data from a while ago: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) Most of the vehicle on the total miles traveled have not reach the milage for there first service. To me that means we have far more vehicle's than we need. Is that why they have sent the taxi's and private coach's to the wall to try and justify the amount of vehicles they have or is this to cope with another 15,000 travelers. Just as an aside how many thousands of gallon's of perfectly good engine oil have been dumped as these vehicle will of been serviced every six months year on year without fail. ? Edited June 9 by Dirty Buggane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 2 hours ago, Dirty Buggane said: Most of the vehicle on the total miles traveled have not reach the milage for there first service. To me that means we have far more vehicle's than we need. Is that why they have sent the taxi's and private coach's to the wall to try and justify the amount of vehicles they have or is this to cope with another 15,000 travelers. Just as an aside how many thousands of gallon's of perfectly good engine oil have been dumped as these vehicle will of been serviced every six months year on year without fail. ? I always understood we had lots of buses to deal with school transport but they are not needed for the rest of the day. Taxis and coaches have always been in competition with government-run buses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 So its good business to have £100,000 busses sitting round doing 40,000 miles in ten years, then flog what is basically a mechanical new bus. Not yet meeting the millage for its first service, no wonder Blackpool are rubbing their hands when they buy them. Do the DOI fly in possible buyers to look at the items or do we pay to transport busses to a big bus auction, that just happens to be in Blackpool run by Blackpool transport managers brother. And if it makes sense to buy second hand busses what is the difference with their business model and should we not be following theirs as it seems to make more sense and save money ie buy bus £10,000 and keep bus for 10 years= cost per year £1,000. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I believe the headcount for the Sprinters is now around the 90 mark. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfc84 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 With that many mini buses you would have thought the on demand service would have expanded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 hour ago, lfc84 said: With that many mini buses you would have thought the on demand service would have expanded The minibuses weren't bought to provide the service, the service was invented to justify the minibuses (though it only uses a fraction of them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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