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Bus & Coach Network

Bus & Coach Network: Registered routes and fifty-six days' notice. A bus network is a set of registered services, and once a service is registered you run it…

Registered routes and fifty-six days' notice. Own the routes, and everything that happens on them.

A bus network is a set of registered services, and once a service is registered you run it whether or not anybody gets on. Changing or withdrawing one takes fifty-six days' notice to the traffic commissioner, so a bad route costs you two months after you have decided to stop. The driver rota is the whole business: a vacancy rate above about one in ten turns into lost mileage, and lost mileage is what brings the commissioner to the door.

Setup costs
£1,500,000 to £8,000,000
Competition
Medium
Category
Transport & Logistics

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