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About markwilliams

The Group Editor of Bus & Coach Buyer and its sister magazine, Coach Tours UK, Mark has more than 35 year's experience of the passenger transport market

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26-coach MoD order for Irizar UK By markwilliams -

26-coach MoD order for Irizar UK

Irizar has completed the handover of 26 coaches into the Ministry of Defence, delivered to sites across the UK. The batch...

SPECIAL FEATURE: Refurbishment By markwilliams -

SPECIAL FEATURE: Refurbishment

As new and used buses and coaches remain a rarity on the market, more operators are refurbishing older vehicles to ensure they...

Sunsundegui staff unpaid By markwilliams -

Sunsundegui staff unpaid

Unions represented by workers at the Sunsundegui plant – which has filed for financial protection with huge debts –...

Alfa group goes Real Living Wage with £2.7m wage bill By markwilliams -

Alfa group goes Real Living Wage with £2.7m wage bill

Alfa Leisureplex Group of Chorley, Lancs, has been accredited as Real Living Wage employers by the Living Wage Foundation,...

Wrightbus HCEVs form £16m spend by Surrey By markwilliams -

Wrightbus HCEVs form £16m spend by Surrey

A fleet of 34 Wrightbus Hydroliners representing a £16m spend by Surrey County Council are to go the road. Run on ‘green’...

COMMENT: This is not an industry I recognise By markwilliams -

COMMENT: This is not an industry I recognise

Dear Louise, I was both glad that you chose to speak up for buses at the Labour Party Conference, and depressed by the narrative....

Building with buses By markwilliams -

Building with buses

The disjointed nature of bus planning has, I see, reached a nadir in Devon, where justifiable fears have been raised about the...

Stertil-Koni launches new high-lift wheel dolly By markwilliams -

Stertil-Koni launches new high-lift wheel dolly

Stertil Koni has launched a fully hydraulic, heavy-duty wheel dolly, designed for simplified, safe, and efficient wheel...