Turkey has become a key manufacturing location for the European market and many others beyond, but it isn’t only the European brands that have bus and coach building facilities there. Turkey’s indigenous bus manufacturing industry is both well established and strong and strongest among these companies, particularly in the bus market, is Otokar. In 2013, […]
It wasn’t exactly an epic journey for most of the bus press last week as Cummins chose to stage a press conference at the Peterborough headquarters of Cummins Generator Technologies rather than at its Darlington engine plant. Under the ‘Euro6 and beyond’ banner, they examined Euro6 in some detail, bandying more acronyms than you could […]
Once it was an undreamed of possibility, but Wi-Fi internet connection onboard buses and coaches is now becoming common. Not only are new vehicles being fitted with routers to enable on-bus internet exploration, but older vehicles are being retrofitted with the equipment. As its popularity grows and passengers become even more accustomed to it, so […]
D&G Bus is the trading identity of Rolling Solutions Ltd and a sister company of Green Triangle Buses Ltd trading as South Lancs Travel. Both operations are owned by David Reeves and Julian Peddle though they have very different identities. They have their head office facilities at The Wellington, a former public house on the […]
Although new to the PCV sector, Harrogate-based Ethos Asset Finance is no stranger to vehicle funding with lengthy and widespread experience in satisfying operators’ funding needs. Chris Peat speaks to Ethos Owner, Chris Brown, for a fuller story. Chris Brown’s route into PCV has been a circuitous one. With plenty of experience gained on the […]
It’s a few years since I last visited the Heaton Motor Company in Wigan, shortly after they had completed the upgrading of their premises on Bickershaw Lane in Abram. That upgrade gave them a facility to be proud of, presenting potential customers with an atmosphere in which to look at used minibuses and minicoaches that, […]
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) holds an annual press event to discuss key topics impacting on its members and upon the bus and coach operators that rely on the products they produce or sell. Chairman of the Bus & Coach Section of SMMT for the past ten years has been Adrian Wickens […]
Blind spots can be deadly for cyclists. There have been many occasions where a bus or coach has been involved in a fatal collision with a cyclist, not to mention the many near misses and less serious collisions. There have been a slew of technological developments to combat this problem of late, from camera systems […]