HTL Buses

[CX06 EBK (Administrator)]

RE: HTL Buses
HTL have always had a high turnover of staff and covid was a reason but the simple fact is this, Arriva and Stagecoaches own driver shortages has seen a good number of people make the switch to those firms from operators like HTL as it is far easier to get in now than it was before. Despite that both those operators are still short and are not running at full timetables, HTL are still short themselves so saw the need to keep the 159 at 2 buses rather than 4 and revert the 166/188 to just 166 operation for the time being - those being their commercially ran services. On top of that to maintain at a 'regular' timetable some tenders were reduced in service to save I think a combined 4 or 5 drivers across the whole change. The driver situation has hardly changed as they're only just getting people back into their driving school now, so I can't see it changing any time soon.