There was no hiding the proud smile on the face of Austin Blackburn, Director of Go-Coach, as he launched his new Dartford Darts service with representatives from Kent County Council. Austin’s name will already be familiar to many readers, as not only does he head the Go-Coach bus operation, he is also the lead man […]
Last year the renowned transport law firm, Backhouse Jones, made what it believes is a revolutionary change in the field of transport law, launching BACKup, a new legal cover package, which gives an operation access to legal advice and services for a fixed annual fee. This is a big step away from the traditional hourly […]
If you run coach tours to Scotland you will have doubtless become familiar with the bright yellow minicoaches of HAGGiS Adventures and the bright blue minicoaches of Highland Explorer Tours. Chances are that when you pull your coach into the coach park of the various key visitor centres in Scotland one or other or both […]
It would be an understatement to say Worksop based parts and consumables supplier, MasterPart Truck and Bus, has become an even busier company over the past few years. Arriving there early, I found General Manager, Jon Hale, on the phone deftly marshalling his business and PSV Parts Specialist, Steve Clarke, equally busy. I had originally […]
Malcolm Robson, MD of Ipswich Buses, has had a busy year as President of CPT UK, but he hasn’t been neglecting the day job. 2013 was an eventful year for the business which has faced competition from First and won a significant new contract, as I found when I visited him in the run up […]
One of the simple measures of the strength of a country’s economy is the number of tower cranes and new multi-story buildings under construction. Istanbul is booming and spreading on both sides of the Bosphorus. A new rail tunnel link has just been opened under the waterway, and a third bridge will be built to […]
Leon Daniels, TfL’s MD Surface Transport, didn’t hold back at the launch of two new BYD e-bus electric buses at Go-Ahead’s Waterloo depot on 18 December. ‘This is a really exciting day for us,’ he said, ‘We hope to see hundreds of these in due course.’ He had been to the BYD Auto plant in […]
I think 2013 will go down in the memory as something of a curate’s egg as far as the bus and coach industry is concerned. Curate’s egg? – good in parts. The Government, or at least Chancellor George Osborne, spent much of the year telling us that the economy was improving and things were getting […]