Over the past weeks, Volvo has held two round table discussion events on the subject of sustainable transport. The first was staged in the committee room of Manchester’s imposing Central Library on 10 May and the second at the RICS Centre in London on 10 June. At both a small group of key players from […]
First Bus’s efforts to ensure that the vehicles it purchases deliver the best efficiency it can buy have seen the company carry out regular detailed tests on a full range of bus products at Millbrook over a number of years. Successive tests have been honed to relate them as closely as possible to the conditions […]
The first company to find a solution to the need for a truly value for money coachbuilt 33 seater minicoach since the disappearance of the Mercedes-Benz Vario chassis, is Connaught PSV with their partner Ferqui of Spain. They have become the latest company to exploit the potential of the recently introduced Iveco New Daily chassis […]
The very first registered service to be operated using EVM Cabrio open topped minicoaches was launched in Edinburgh on June 1 by established Scottish tour operator Rabbie’s Trail Burners. Called the Edinburgh City Tour, the new service also represents Rabbie’s first regular service, hitherto all their services have been private tours. I met up with […]
Kenny Walsh says it himself, he’s eccentric. His approach and his sense of humour are different to most other people’s. For him, it’s all about setting up challenges, some of them bizarre, and overcoming them through his ingenuity, determination and the skills he has doggedly acquired over years of varied experience. Don’t be taken aback […]
It was purely coincidence that just six weeks before the EU referendum, the 2016 ALBUM conference was held outside of the EU on the Isle of Man, planning for it having commenced well in advance of the 2015 election which initiated the referendum process. The self governing Crown Dependency does not form part of the […]
Local Enterprise Partnerships, or LEPs as they are more frequently referred to, are a fairly new initiative, announced by the Government in June 2010. LEPs were established by the Coalition Government to replace the Regional Development Agencies. They are made up of local authorities and businesses with the specific aim to promote economic growth and […]
The APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) event is held every Spring at Colyumbridge, near Aviemore in Scotland. It attracts professional transport people employed by Scottish and North English local authorities and the contractors that work for them. As a result it has become very popular with producers of wheelchair assessable minibuses and this year […]