When Volvo announced its Euro6 product line up last April, Hakan Karlsson, now Head of Business Areas Volvo Group, which includes Volvo Buses, made it clear that the company was already looking much further ahead towards a future based on electromobility. Present at the event was a significant step on that journey, the first plug […]
It was a positive blue Monday in Telford this week as Arriva Midlands launched a new fleet of vehicles for the 481 route linking Telford with Stafford. The six blue liveried Wrightbus VDL single-deckers will provide additional capacity to support the continued growth of patronage on a route that has already seen frequency increases and […]
In what the companies involved believe is the first project of its scale anywhere, Arriva The Shires is to operate eight fully electric Wheel Forward Wrightbus Streetlite EVs in service in Milton Keynes. The buses will be charged using an induction system with recharging pads at each end of the 15 mile route 7 between […]
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 […]