Having absorbed low fare operation Manabus, Ritchies started a similar operation on the North Island in November 2018, Skip. only 18 months later the operation closed in March 2020 due to the covid pandamic and had yet to re-emerge in January 2023. Seen in the bright blue and orange livery in Auckland's coach station and bound for Whangarei is 2008 Kiwi bodied Scania K114IB 543 (ENK464).
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Passing 543 and headed for Hamilton a similar, but three years older coach K124IB, 526 (CWE165).
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Whilst Manabus deployed doubledeckers, Skip had a nmber of these 37 seat GBV NZ bodied Isuzu LT434 midi coaches bought in 2018. This one, 1196 (LTZ494), is seen in Tauranga in February 2020 headed for Te Puke.
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The same coach is seen loading in Tauranga over an hour later.
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