Q’Straint’s Quantum wheelchair securement system was released to much applause in 2013, winning a European Coach and Bus Week Innovation Label Award at that year’s Busworld exhibition in Kortrijk. It has been described as the world’s first fully automatic rear facing wheelchair securement system. Chris Peat originally covered the launch of the product (see B&CB […]
Premier Pits’ pink prefabricated pits are hard to miss at trade shows or on the motorway as they are being delivered. They certainly caught the eye of Chris Peat, who originally visited the company in 2008, for what was his very first feature article in Bus and Coach Buyer. Seven years later and with several […]
CILT, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), is a name you are probably already very familiar with, with the organisation having long been involved in the bus and coach industry. However, it has recently expanded its offerings with the launch of Busmark, a benchmarking scheme for PCV operators. Chris Peat met Chris Ruane, […]
Coach operators in London are having a difficult time with so many obstacles in their path. Kirsty caught up with one of the capital’s leading private coach hire businesses, Redwing Coaches, at their Herne Hill headquarters in South London, to find out how they face the day to day challenges. Redwing Coaches was started in […]
Prior to Lachezar Apostolov, the Chief Editor of the Bulgarian magazines Kamioni and AvtoBusi, volunteering to organise the Coach Euro Test 2015 there, I confess I had never heard of the city of Plovdiv, which is remarkable, because it is the second biggest in the country and it pre-dates Rome, having been the capital of […]
Mellor Coachcraft at Rochdale has now fully absorbed manufacture of the Orion low floored, directly wheelchair accessible minibus into its production system. Two basic versions are produced. One has wheelchair accessibility via the front entrance or through the rear doors and a shallow ramp. This version is primarily aimed at community transport groups, health and […]
Now in its fifth year, the IRTE (Institute of Road Transport Engineers) Skills Challenge 2015 came to its climax recently with a glittering awards ceremony. The National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull played host to the event, a fitting venue for the presentations that recognised engineering and mechanical excellence in the bus and coach industry. Chris […]
Stuart Smith, known by many as the Wheeltrim King for his exhortations to ‘cover your ugly nuts’, has returned to the industry after four years away and along with his daughter Pepa is aiming to reclaim his title. Rob Orchard caught up with the man who first brought us Euroliners and found out about his […]