The Scottish Government will provide bus operators with additional financial assistance to maintain essential services. This is intended to offset the impact that reduced demand is having on the viability of local services for key workers and to protect the industry for the future. The intention is to maintain concessionary travel reimbursement and Bus Service […]
Together with our legal partners, Stone King, and with expertise from One Associates and from financial experts Milsted Langdon, we are running a webinar to help you through the current problems. If you have not joined a webinar before, it’s very simple, and you will remain anonymous. Just click on the link below, and you […]
It is with huge regret that we have to tell readers that we have suspended publication of Bus and Coach Buyer magazine through April. We are entirely dependent on advertising for all our revenues, and in the last fortnight, unsurprisingly, our clients have had to reduce or cancel marketing programmes, including advertising. We are extremely […]
Five fully-electric, low floor Mellor Orion E small buses have been supplied to Community Transport Glasgow (CTG). The provision of the vehicles is part of a strategy to move to a fully electric fleet, which is in line with Glasgow City Council’s overall ambition to become the UK’s first city to become fully carbon neutral. […]
Kent-based Go-Coach is to launch a demand responsive transport (DRT) service in May. It is thought to be the first independent operator to do so. Entitled Go2, the service will see four new Ford Transit Tourneos enter service on the DRTs on 11 May. It is also thought to be the first to use small […]
Irizar (UK)’s new Managing Director, Andrew Blundell, brings over 25 years of experience in the transport and logistics sectors to the post. He was most recently Transport Development Director at leading British logistics company Bibby Distribution, but also has specific coach-industry experience from his time as Operations Director at Alfa Travel of Chorley. Other famous […]
The community transport operator was rescued from closure in 2017 by joining HCT Group. It has been reliant on it for financial, management and technical support since that time. Operating conditions for MCT have not improved sufficiently for continued support to be viable. HCT Group can no longer sustain MCT’s losses and says it has […]
The free travel to and from the exhibition and conference event will be available from Bristol, Oxford, Milton Keynes, St Albans and Maidenhead. The deal was initially teased in last week’s news section (see B&CB 1568, 21 February 2020). Visitors to ITT Hub 2020 will be able to use Snap’s new online events product to […]