In the first of a new series of People Profiles, Kirsty Flatt spent the afternoon with Peter Shipp, CEO of EYMS at the Anlaby Road offices in Hull, to find out what drives this self confessed bus enthusiast and successful business man. The early years Peter was born in Devon, and started his career working […]
Mistral Bus and Coach have been providing quality new and used leased vehicles to the industry since 1992 and this year they will be celebrating twenty three years in business. Five years ago Mistral Asset Finance was formed and earlier this year the two companies relocated to new offices in Manchester. Kirsty Flatt met up […]
Over 400,000 complaints were sent on Twitter to train companies last year. A new report from ‘Commute London’ has analysed these and how train companies handled them. It makes for interesting reading, and there’s much bus companies can learn. Who knows, they may be about to report on you too. I’ve also been monitoring how […]
Heritage has combined with cutting edge technology recently to provide a solution for cleaner exhaust systems. Leyland Bus Parts, a company that traces its history back to the bus building days of Leyland Bus, has joined forces with GreenUrban Technologies Ltd, a designer and installer of the latest exhaust filtration systems. The pair-up combines the […]
Last Friday morning saw six brand new buses lined up in the car park of The Skinners’ Kent Academy on the northern outskirts of Royal Tunbridge Wells for an event to celebrate the complete renewal of the fleet used on the 281 service that is the main cross town bus service. It connects Rusthall, Sainsburys […]
A recent survey by Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) (B&CB 1307, 19 December 2014) showed Peterborough was the most car dependant city in England, despite the city’s ambition to become the environmental capital of the UK. It was not without raised eyebrows therefore that the latest report from the CBT (B&CB 1310, 16 January 2015) […]
Few topics engage the industry and its stakeholders at all levels in the way that improving air quality does. It seems the public at large and many politicians too do not appreciate the lengths or the expense that manufacturers and operators have gone to in order to comply with the various euro emission levels, and […]
It was in 1999 when John Prescott’s ‘carthorse to thoroughbred’ vision was motivating the industry that the last UK Bus Summit was held. Clearly another was due and Transport Times under its Chief Executive, Professor David Begg, organised it last week at Kings Place, round the corner from Kings Cross Station. It brought together a […]