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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Realistically though any vehicle used for school bussing in more or less dedicated to that task anyway. Public transport and private coasch hire would find it very diificult to arrange their capacity for services or clients when a large part of their fleet would be unavailable at peak morning, or late afternoon periods, for a large part of the year.
Of course there is no reason why these yellow busses have to be dedicated to the school run replacement. They can also be used for school trips and the like, provided those are daytime or weekends when not needed for their prime task.
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I don't see how that could happen, if they are painted a distinctive yellow, to mark them out as school buses and therefore warrant special consideration they could only be used in term time or when carrying children out of term time. The amount of use for carrying children out of term particulary in the 6 week summer holiday would in my opinion be very limited and valuable assets would be wasted in garage time which would be a depreceating asset.
If however they were standard coaches or buses which had removable signage they could be provided by contractors.
No outllay on a fleet of buses, no outlay on staff to operate the buses, no fuel stocks or fuel cards.
All this would save money for local taxpayers.