01-29-2020, 04:55 PM
(01-29-2020, 03:15 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-29-2020, 01:54 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: I thought I read somewhere that they have around 700 employees and 260 buses or similar numbers. So each bus needs 3 person-weeks of labour to inspect? Now I don’t actually know what exactly is involved in the inspection — maybe most of the work has to be done by mechanics, not drivers — but these buses haven’t been hauled out of a lake after sitting underwater for a month, they just haven’t been driven for a few days. This is way excessive.
I think it's a safe assumption that any safety inspections will need to be done by licensed mechanics. I don't know how many of those GRT has, but surely well less than 100. In any case, I believe the Strasburg Rd maintenance facility has something like 20 service bays so that would likely set the limit for the number of vehicles being inspected concurrently.
OK, so each service bay needs to handle 260 / 20 = 13 buses. For that to take a week, each bus has to take half a day.
Keep in mind that there is no reason to believe there is any problem with these buses — they just haven’t been driven for a week. Do we even believe that buses never go a week without being driven in normal operations? There are a number of spares at any time; maybe they rotate them around so each bus is driven every day or two at least; or maybe they don’t. I would be suspicious of a claim that they never go undriven for more than a day.
If this issue really causes a noticeable delay in resuming service then management messed up.