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• East Yorkshire Motor Services subsidiary Scarborough and District has brought forward its winter schedules and cut a further 20 drivers and seven minibuses.
The move follows an earlier reorganisation which transferred coaching and most big-bus work to its sister company Primrose Valley Services.
By tightening schedules and removing duplication up to 10 existing minibuses may be saved, representing 30% of the fleet. Mileage cuts, however, are only 10%, with Cayton Village bearing the majority of service cuts. Already 10 drivers have been made redundant and a few more may follow, when the open top seafront service ceases at the end of the month.
Exact staffing levels have yet to be finalised.
Elsewhere in the group, East Yorkshire Motor Services of Hull has purchased its first new double-deckers since deregulation, and plans to introduce a double-decker replacement programme.
Six long-wheelbase Leyland Olympians with Northern Counties 85-seat bodywork have been fitted with mYrAc features such as a split step. Before this only minibuses and coaches were bought new, with double-deckers acquired secondhand.