Alrite Travel is an operator of bus services in North East England. It is based near Middlesbrough in the Skippers Lane Industrial Estate.

It runs a number of commercial and council-supported bus services around the local Tees Valley area, mainly serving Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough.

They bought a load of old buses that should have been scrapped and operate the most erratic service in the history of transport.

The bus drivers seem to have no clue about what fares they should charge and quite often will ask you how much Arriva charge and then knock 20p off. They don't issue tickets, they should but mostly run out of ticket paper even though they hardly ever have any passengers.

They seem to operate a "scavenger" service: often arriving slightly before a schedulued Arriva bus. This would seem to be a savvy business strategy except the buses, instead of following the Arriva route and collecting all of their passengers, proceed on the most convoluted treck around east-cleveland. One would expect a bus to Middlesbrough to head to Middlesbrough, not double back to Lingdale, then Nunthorpe, then the James Cook Hospital...the actual journey is a test of patience and arrives far, far later than the Arriva service. In fact, once you get on you just wish you could get off and go wait for the Arriva bus.

External links