The Scottish Government has in recent years demonstrated a robust commitment to community transport in Scotland, believing that CT is essential to prevent social exclusion in areas where the lack of population and rural nature mean that conventional bus services cannot be viable. As a result their funding to local authorities for use on community […]
Neatly timed to coincide with the announcement of the QCS Board findings, the latest meeting of the Young Bus Managers Network (YBMN) was held last week at The County Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Supported by the Chris Moyes Scholarship Trust, the organisation is a not-for-profit organisation helping the industry breed and encourage the next generation of managers. […]
The last few weeks have seen VW making plenty of headlines and all for the wrong reasons. It must be some relief to the management at Wolfsburg, Germany to be able to announce some good news. That good news is the impending arrival in the UK of the first examples of their new mid range […]
The 2015 CPT Scotland Chair is Andrew Jarvis, MD Stagecoach East Scotland who opened the organisation’s annual conference at the Cameron House Hotel on the banks of a misty Loch Lomond by explaining the rationale behind the conference title, pointing out that the industry was arriving at a crossroads at which change was inevitable, which […]
Following significant activity in 2013/4, all might appear to have gone quiet on expanding the role of natural gas in the UK’s bus fleets. At Coach and Bus Live 2015, the Gas Bus Alliance was actively promoting the concept although there were no gas buses or associated infrastructure prominently displayed. It should be noted, however, […]
A hectic programme of press conferences and launches meant there was not time to catch up with many of the product and service suppliers that form an important part of Busworld. This review features a few that caught the eye, though there were many more including a further selection of UK companies such as Camira, A.T. […]
Ever an entertaining speaker, Ian Jones of specialist road transport law firm, Backhouse Jones, took care of proceedings at their recent transport law seminar. The event looked at: the roles of directors, operator’s licences, holiday pay and how not to end up in front of a Traffic Commissioner. Chris Peat’s report focuses on some of […]
Resplendent with a soaring eagle graphic, a Van Hool Altano TD 921 from Shaw’s of Whitley’s fleet has recently had its bodywork reinvigorated. The work was carried out by Market Weighton based Britcom International and Acomb Signs from Acomb, near York. This is the second coach owned by the North Yorkshire based operator to have been given […]