Come 8 June this year, we will say goodbye to the paper counterpart that currently accompanies all UK photocard driving licences. The government announced it is abolishing them as part of its Red Tape Challenge initiative on 22 December 2014. It will mean that from this summer onwards all paper counterparts will no longer have […]
In the hurly burly of running a transport concern one area of compliance that is frequently overlooked is that of the operating centre. Many operators have used the same operating centre for generations so that when it is time for a change some common problems can occur. This article raises some of the common problems and […]
SJ. Please can you tell me a little about yourself and your career prior to becoming MD of EvoBus UK? MT. My commercial career started with Daimler in 1984 working on the commercial vehicle side. With the exception of the last four years prior to my assignment here I have not left the commercial vehicle […]
Launching a new commercial service in competition with an established operator is no easy task, to do so with new vehicles at high frequency in a city with previous negative experience of competition is the challenge that Cardiff based NAT Group has set itself with its X1 service. Commencing on Monday 11 May, the X1 […]
Profound changes have taken place in the UK oil industry in the past five years, according to Optimum Oils MD, Cliff Thrussell. A veteran of the lubricants industry, he said that, ‘all of the major oil suppliers once had numerous engineers on the road throughout the nation, but now their numbers have been dramatically decreased. […]
Described by the barman in my hotel as ‘a posh version of Blackpool’ Llandudno in North Wales simultaneously hosts both a Victorian Extravaganza and the Llandudno Transport Festival over the MayDay Bank Holiday Weekend. Both attract huge followings and include a significant bus element amidst a broader commercial vehicle following. Much of the main street […]
In 2010 following the Coach and Bus Show in Dublin I made my way to County Offaly to Tullamore to visit a then new vehicle convertor producing quality minibuses and coaches called Paramount Conversions. I’ve now returned to see the progress the company has made in recent years to become one of Ireland’s major vehicle […]
From the outside, you’d be hard pressed to spot the differences between a Euro5 Irizar i6 and the latest Euro6 examples now starting to enter service with UK operators, but they are there, as Stuart Jones and Andrew Fowler found when they tried Irizar UK’s latest demonstrator, a 12.92m long two axle model equipped with […]