Training in the safe driving of buses and coaches is already something almost all operations are doing, however Golden Boy Coaches has taken it a step further. The Hertfordshire based operator has been giving its team training in cycle awareness. No, it is not expanding into operating bicycles; rather it is allowing its drivers to […]
This February saw Martin and Liz Sherratt, proprietors of the Stafford Bus Centre, open for business at new premises of their own. The £500,000 investment realises an ambition they have held since they initially started trading. When they first moved to the rented Cotes Heath site that was their base for the previous 15 years, […]
‘There’s just me and just one bus and that’s the way it’s going to stay. I’m happy at this size,’ said Mike Woodhouse, owner and Transport Manager of M&J Minibus. We usually cover considerably larger operations in B&CB, but there are plenty of our readers up and down the country that are, like Mike, running […]
Opportunities to publicly highlight the hard work put in by coach operators and their staff are few and far between which is why the UK Coach Awards are such a worthwhile feature of the annual coaching calendar. Changes in recent years have moved the emphasis more towards the contribution of people and in a people […]
Distinctive Systems has launched Coach Hire Exchange (CHX), an entirely free of charge cloud-based passenger recovery and job exchange service for coach and minibus operators. CHX is designed to help operators find immediate assistance in the event of a breakdown, or any other situation where passengers need to be picked up and transported as soon […]
Having last year purchased the very first Euro5 powered Yutong TC12 coach to enter service in the UK, Cropley Coaches of Fosdyke in Lincolnshire has now placed the very first Euro6 example to be delivered to an operator in service alongside it. Collected from Pelican Bus and Coach’s Castleford site early in April, the touring […]
EVM caused a bit of a stir when they announced that they were developing a directly wheelchair accessible low floor Sprinter to add to their range. It represented a whole new market sector for EVM who have hitherto confined their activities to the minicoach market, particularly the more luxurious sector, although it must be pointed […]
I don’t think the bookies run a book on the results of the UK Coach Rally, but with eight wins in the preceding 15 years and consecutive victories for the past four years, I don’t think the odds you’d have got on Parrys International taking the UK Coach Rally Coach of the Year title for […]