Stagecoach-owned megabus.com has welcomed nine new Plaxton Elite i coaches to its fleet following an investment of almost £3m. The vehicles will be based from the operator’s Cwmbran, South Wales, site and they each feature 74 seats, free wifi, a toilet and USB charging points. The coaches will replace the existing fleet based at Cwmbran […]
EVM and Northside Truck and Van in Sheffield are supplying 260 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter school bus specification vehicles to OneBus. The order is worth over £12m. Based on a medium-wheelbase 314Cdi Sprinter with 7G-Tronic gearbox, the vehicles feature in-dash and saloon air conditioning and heating and were supplied by Northside Truck and Van. In a change […]
Ashley Griffiths of Williams Coaches of Brecon is the first winner of a Pride & Joy All Stars award. The high-flying driver for Williams Coaches was praised by his nominator, Rose Williams, Operations Director at Williams Coaches: “Ashley has a great future ahead of him in the industry. He embraces training opportunities, technological advances and […]
Bus & Coach Sales Centre in Coventry to be refurbished As we revealed in last week’s news section, Volvo Bus has announced that it has received planning permission for a major redevelopment of its Bus & Coach Sales Centre at Coventry. The £1.3m project will quadruple the existing office space to more than 700 square […]
Volvo Bus has received planning permission for a major redevelopment of its Bus & Coach Sales Centre at Coventry. The £1.3m project will quadruple the existing office space to more than 700 square metres. Here is a selection of artist’s impressions of the new site.
Woodall Nicholson Holdings Ltd (WNHL) has acquired the entire share capital of Villmount, the holding company for Treka Bus. The WNHL Group trades as Coleman Milne, Coleman Milne Specialist Vehicles and Mellor Coachcraft. Treka and Mellor will continue to trade as separate brands and be run by their existing management teams. Mark Clissett, the founder […]
Stagecoach East Scotland has celebrated ten years of Express City Connect. The brand represents all the coaches operating on express routes across Fife and to destinations such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee. The Express City Connect branding used on the coaches was created in October 2007 to coincide with an investment of over £4.5m […]
Cornish coach operator, Jackett’s Coaches, has lost its licence to carry passengers. The decision comes after the region’s Traffic Commissioner, Kevin Rooney, said he was “clearly in the habit of putting passengers and the public at serious risk”. Trevellyan Jackett, 33, who traded as Jackett’s Coaches, was also disqualified from acting as a Transport Manager […]