Four years ago, EVM made its debut in the lowfloor accessible market with a lowfloor Sprinter minibus conversion. Having earned renown in the executive minicoach sector, the business has now experienced considerable success with this newest concept, most notably with one of EVM’s largest ever orders to a school service provider (more on this later). […]
Cummins has announced a fully certified repower option for buses, which could potentially take Euro IV vehicles to Euro VI and extend their operating life in Low Emission Zones. The option involves replacing the existing engine with a Cummins 4.5-litre or 6.7-litre together with associated DPF, SCR and stop-start technologies, and to illustrate an extreme […]
Hawkes Tours has the honour of being the first operator to place an order for an individually-specified new Neoplan Tourliner, handed over officially last week. Launched in left-hand drive markets in 2016, the attractively restyled new Neoplan Tourliner soon attracted attention from UK operators with orders placed before the first right-hand drive example arrived in […]
Many on the highways and byways of the country will no doubt have seen the fruit of Adverta’s labours. Whether it is making them aware of the latest movie or the local college’s courses, commercial messages sourced and placed by the transport advertising specialist are presented on buses across the nation. Chris Peat met with […]
Technology is moving at a great pace and that is even true in what could be argued the more traditional world of coaching. CPT hosted its annual Coaching Conference at Volvo’s Warwick headquarters, which addressed just this, the fast-changing digital realm. Entitled ‘Embracing the digital world: maximising online opportunities’, the event was attended by Chris […]
People don’t change much. I’ve met Leon Daniels a few times in his long career, and aside from our shared signs of ageing, he’s much the same positive, ebullient person. But change is on the horizon for Leon – the Managing Director of Surface Transport for Transport for London. He’s retiring; in the career sense, […]
Nobody expects to bury their child, and when an eleven-year-old takes his own life as a direct result of bullying on the school bus, something has to change. This is what the parents of Ben Vodden had to face in December 2006 when they found him unconscious in his bedroom after hanging himself. He had […]
First in line to trial the Irizar i4H hybrid coach in not only the UK, but northern Europe, is Travel de Courcey (see B&CB 1442, 11 August 2017 for our coverage of the announcement of this vehicle). Operating green PCVs is nothing new for CEO, Adrian de Courcey, whose fleet includes electric Optare Versas. It […]