Stagecoach has called for a joint strategy between industry and government to secure vital public transport networks out of the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond. The operator has set out a six-point plan identifying the short and long-term changes it believes will help reboot the economy and protect communities. Chief Executive, Martin Griffiths, outlined the proposals […]
Tring-based Masons Minibus and Coach Hire has made the local newspaper as it raises awareness of the CPT’s ‘Back Britain’s Coaches’ campaign. Read the full story on the Hemel Today site here.
Bus drivers are among the key workers depicted in the latest edition of card game Top Trumps. The new edition of the game honours COVID-19 key and essential workers. Among the other professionals honoured by their own cards include doctors, nurses, journalists, pest controllers and midwives. There is even a Boris Johnson card to depict […]
Sprinter specialist EVM has created a suite of COVID-19 protection measures which can be retrofitted to its vehicles and added to new vehicles in built. All components will be available to customer for the end of May. The kit includes a screen for the driver protection and between each seat rows, plus a new saloon […]
Investigations are being carried out after one of Diamond Bus‘s double-deckers collided with a bridge in Rochdale. Full story in the Manchester Evening News here.
Stoke-on-Trent-based D&G Bus has expressed concerns that TfGM is threatening to withhold vital funding unless operators agree to a new eight-point list of demands. In March, TfGM wrote to operators with 11 demands in return for making payments mandated by the Government and administered by the region’s transport authority. On 1 April TfGM had to […]
An extension until 31 December 2020 for non-PSVAR compliant buses and coaches to perform rail replacement work has been announced. The government has published a letter allowing applications to extend the period of non-accessibility compliance for PCVs performing rail replacement duties. The exemption is subject to the conditions that train operating companies (TOCs) must source […]
Trade associations representing thousands of tourist businesses, together with the Local Government Association, have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking him to urgently change civil servants’ interpretation of his Coronavirus Business Rates Relief Scheme, launched to support the UK’s hospitality and leisure industries. Tour and coach operators, represented by the Coach Tourism Association, […]