Team Pennine experience

[Mr D Roebuck-Johnson]

Went out today with a rare day off, I had done some research on the services team Pennine were running. So I drove over from Ripon with camera ! Spent most of the day in Huddersfield but was amazed how many buses were missing from service. The local old k line services were hit & miss, some routes I never saw one bus on ! Bus allocation was varied and no continuity at all. Whilst at the bus station I got talking to a driver who said apart from the driver shortage they are taking buses off service to cover school contracts. A few drivers have left since Transdev took over not wanting to work for them.
I’m not one for Twitter but looked in their Twitter feed and Facebook page and there’s no mention of any services missing. So guess what I sent my first tweet ever to the company asking what’s running and what’s not…guess what …I was blocked within 90 minutes !

I get the impression they are trying to cover things up but that’s only my opinion ! Interesting day out anyway so back to my job tomorrow as a health care assistant. Might re train as a bus driver ha ha

[adam]

Oh dear its not good that they're blocking people that raise a concern. I know they're a company that are very positive and look what we're doing but to literally delete people who are even slightly negative isn't a good image.

[joseph]

I've got to be brutally honest about my feelings on Alex, he appears to be one of those ruthless marketing type spin doctors who only want to promote all things positive whilst hiding the bad stuff away out of sight. He doesn't seem to want to acknowledge ANY company failings what so ever, which is really really bad in my opinion, as it just simply shows he's not up for dealing with things, or have any wish to. The only failings he's acknowledged of late are those of Yorkshire Tiger! Sorry but the man is one of those sly ruthless marketing types.

[SCH117X]

What does not add up is Harrogate for example have tweeted about a number of service cancellations - a raft of 36s on Sunday for example but TP are silent on the matter. Are they trying to hide the fact also from management?

[westyorkshirebus]

The commercial services generally only have one bus each on them these days, and often at school start and finishing times, there are no buses running them

For example today the 360 didn’t run until 10am and the 20/21 stopped running at 2pm

This has been the case since the schools went back and Team Pennine took on additional school contracts

Alex Hornby is noticeably subdued on Twitter, at the moment all he’s promoting is how in a ‘unique partnership’ the 514 will now be run by a Transit van from next week