Having experienced success with its Belfast to Glasgow express service, Hannon Coach was looking forward to rolling out a similar route between Derry-Londonderry and Belfast. However, service permit difficulties have soured the experience for the Craigavon-based operator. Owen McLaughlin, Hannon Coach Marketing Manager, believes the state operator, Translink, has a monopoly over Northern Ireland’s bus […]
With headquarters in the trendy, graffiti-art bedecked Floodgates Street in the centre of Birmingham, Big Green Coach is perhaps a far cry from the traditional, often family-run businesses which provide its transport services. However, the company links such operators to work they may not usually get. Many reading this may have even partnered with them. Danny […]
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The importance of Van Hool’s EX series to the Belgian company cannot be understated…. and isn’t. I was fortunate enough to catch Van Hool’s Head of Sales, Private Sector, Erik Olijslagers, at the recent NEC show, and he was keen to point out the phenomenal growth of the EX – or more accurately, the Macedonian […]
The best things come in the smallest packages, the saying goes, and Coach and Bus UK delivered a compact event with quality buyers, according to many exhibitors. Feedback from vehicle exhibitors was that visitors provided a steady trickle rather than a deluge, but operators had made the journey to the NEC with serious intent. Almost […]
The CENEX Low Carbon Vehicle exhibition a few weeks ago is a show which has grown from being a handful of hopefuls in the field, touting what appeared to be a fantasy, to a large show of well-funded tech solutions. At my first show at Millbrook, I remember being aware that the exhibitors were mainly […]
Arriva Bus & Coach is planning a workshop expansion and more than doubling its service team at its satellite aftersales unit in Wellingborough. The site – which was once the HQ for Van Hool – has been an unsung hero of the operation for many years, with much easier access from the Midlands and southern […]
For most coach operators and indeed bus operators who hire buses to groups, the words ‘private hire’ cover a whole range of business, which presents itself as an opportunity to either fill in gaps around the bread and butter contract business, or as an enterprise. But what exactly is ‘private hire’? The dictionary definition is:- […]