Growth of 20% year-on-year for The Bath Bus Company’s Air Decker service to Bristol Airport shows no sign of slowing down. The service which started almost seven years ago to connect Bath with the airport has just added two new MCV eVoSeti ‘deckers to the fleet, on a six-vehicle PVR. But its beginnings were much […]
KB Coaches started around 40 years ago, when Ken Boulton and Ben Niblet contributed the first letters of their forenames to its title… though Ben didn’t remain with the business for very long. The rented site at Claypits near Stonehouse had even earlier coaching connections as the base for Lock’s Coaches. Andy used to travel […]
It takes some bottle to hand in your notice on a £40,000-a-year salaried job and dive into coach tours to make a living. If we’re to believe many pundits, there are thin margins and a lot of stress in running a tour programme, with or without owning coaches. That said, there are a few well-known […]
When the Mk8 Ford Transit minibus was introduced in 2014 it set new standards in what could be expected from a factory-built product; but the introduction of an all-new model, assembled at a new plant in Turkey for the global market with Euro VI compliant engines, greater levels of standard specification and a vastly more […]
Procuring the electric vehicles (EVs) themselves is just one aspect of the challenge to introduce zero-emission vehicles to meet the UK’s commitment to a net zero carbon economy. The bigger issue may be creating the means to charge them. Energy supplier SSE, one of the organisations playing a leading role in facilitating the introduction of […]
2020 is set to be a pivotal year not just for our planet as a whole, but for local communities right across the UK. Why? Because for the first time ever there is a political consensus that we are facing a climate emergency which threatens the future of our planet – and something must be […]
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I liked ADL Plaxton’s Panorama from the moment it appeared at the NEC show. My view of ‘decker coaches has been jaded in the past by vehicles which definitely give top-deck travel a good name but which feel more like a pot-holing expedition downstairs – claustrophobic, with […]
