NOT WORTH SERVICE DESPAIR

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Centrebus 510 (YX60 DXR), an Alexander Dennis Enviro200 new to Lochs Motor Transport on the Isle of Lewis, in Kettering on service X16.
DAVID JENKINS

As Buses reported last month, Centrebus, a company of which I am a director, closed its Corby depot at the end of October. I thought it might be useful to explain some of the pressures that affect rural operators and are leading to cutbacks all over the country.

Centrebus was set up in Leicester in 2001 and throughout its life the strategy has been to look for gaps in the commercial market in areas where there are a range of local authority bus tenders.

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