As I write, we’re just putting the final touches to the 23 December issue. I have just one working day before I mentally wave cheerio to 2022 at Bus & Coach Buyer and join my family for a nice break from business. I know that many of our readers will be working through the festive […]
I was curious to read a council report in which the Chief Executive was critical of a bus group who, he said, were ‘hypocritical’ when announcing service cuts. I read on, wondering how he reached this conclusion. It turns out, he’d been reading the group’s annual report which, of course, portrayed the company as a […]
A public inquiry into Stagecoach Devon after a tragic accident seems to me to be more significant than at first meets the eye. First of all, let me say that it was primarily a tragedy for the injured passengers, but also a tragedy for a young driver who made a small mistake with big consequences. […]
A very interesting statistic came my way a couple of weeks ago; that if the Chancellor dropped 10p per litre tax on road fuels, the cost to the public purse would equal that of the government making all bus travel free. The expert writer admitted that the recent price hikes in fuel may have skewed […]
It’s good to see so many coaches on the roads as spring gives way to summer, with touring having picked up and, as Marksman reports in On Target, even signs of the inbound market recovering. Tour companies report buoyant overseas sales for events centred around the Platinum Jubilee, Tours International selling out of places on […]
The second ITT Hub exhibition at Farnborough was starred not so much with the display of electric vehicles as the quality of the networking. There’s no doubt in my mind that a part of this was the ‘post-Covid effect’ – the visitors were just pleased to be able to enjoy a big show without masks […]
Has anyone else noticed how hard it has become to get a coach operator on the phone in recent weeks? I really hope it’s not just the sight of my number in front of them… Anecdotally, it looks as if the coach market has gone a bit nuts, with most operators up to their nethers […]
I am old enough to recall a report by, I think, Shearings saying that the coach industry is the Cinderella of travel something wonderful which creeps under the radar of many people. It was quite clear to most of us that nothing much had changed so far as government is concerned in the dark days […]