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Job losses at Yorkshire Rider
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• Yorkshire Rider has made 89 staff redundant and revamped the operations of the West Yorkshire Road Car company, which it bought last August, in a massive cost-cutting exercise.
YR has withdrawn 26 buses, modified nearly 160 services and relinquished the 'WY' trading name. YR says that most of the staff have taken voluntary redundancy with only 12 being forced to leave. Drivers have moved to a lower YR "starters rate" but with lump sum payments of up to .23,000 each.
The company hopes to save about <£0.75m a year, having paid £3.2m for the company and 123 buses. The acquisition did not include any WY properties; the move entailed the Leeds and Bradford depots accommodating most of the additional buses. A new outstation at Otley has been opened. YR claims that the rationalisation has improved the network in many areas.