I can’t let the news of National Express ditching its Touromo grouping without passing comment, not least because many people will think it was never really given the chance to get going. Just after launch, I ordered a Touromo brochure, in the name of research. It landed a few days later but I quickly realised […]
The Department for Transport has issued a Call for Evidence into the PSVAR regulation, drafted 25 years ago. I very strongly urge all coach operators, in particular, to respond to it. To its huge credit, the coach industry has embraced the change, which has included seriously compromising the ergonomics of vehicles to provide a wheelchair […]
The appalling delays at Dover, ensnaring thousands of coach passengers and drivers, and creating huge additional cost for the industry, must never be repeated. Some vehicles were stuck there for a whole day, creating a driver management nightmare, leaving groups of children high and dry and, more importantly, provoking some group leaders to say they’ll […]
An interesting report landed on my desk which should be ringing some early warning bells for the industry. The EU will have no new ICE cars for sale in 12 years’ time; only electrics. The reality of this is that manufacturers will be winding down combustion-engined car production much sooner and, as battery and hydrogen […]
Changes to the Driver CPC are sensible and probably long overdue, though the changes being mooted by the Government may not be those that are needed. In the main, the reason the DCPC is so loathed by many drivers is that the training hoops they are being asked to jump through have little or no […]
Very belatedly, I have learned of the passing of John Dunn, one of the best-known coach sales professionals in the business for 40 years. John left us last October, his widow, Mary, tells me. It is regrettable that we did not, for a number of reasons, cover his loss at the time. In an earlier […]
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 […]