Nick Jones, the Traffic Commissioner for Wales, has refused to grant Express Motors (Caernarfon) Ltd a passenger transport licence, concluding that the business fell “well short” of meeting the requirements. The request for the licence was made by Mrs Rhian Wyn Davies, the daughter of former owners, Eric and Jean Jones, whose brothers Kevin and […]
Shearings Holidays is adding 30 new Mercedes-Benz Tourismos to its fleet. To the company’s Celebration Class specification, the coaches are due to be delivered to the operator in May. The new vehicles are part of the business’s ongoing vehicle renewal programme. Each coach is individually named after loyal customers and drivers both past and present […]
Timberbush Tours is celebrating 20 years of touring in 2018 and has just invested £1.2m in nine new coaches. Timberbush has purchased a new 47-seater MAN Barbie Galileo 47-seater from BASE Coach Sales. Mercedes-Benz make up the rest of the compliment, with three Atego based Indcar 33-seaters purchased from Moseley Distributors and two 19-seater and […]
Till Oberwörder has been named as the new Head of Daimler Buses and Chief Executive of EvoBus GmbH as of 1 April 2018. He succeeds Hartmut Schick, who will take over responsibility for Daimler Trucks Asia on the same date. Till has been Head of Marketing, Sales and Services Mercedes‑Benz Trucks since 1 July 2015. […]
Go-Ahead Group owned Damory Coaches has responded to the financial pressures facing schools in Dorset by introducing significantly larger vehicles to its fleet. The company has upseated six Caetano-bodied Volvo B9R coaches, which had been used on National Express services by fellow-subsidiary Excelsior Coaches. Damory launched its new vehicles last week with teachers and pupils […]
ComfortDelGro Corporation has acquired south Wales based New Adventure Travel (NAT Group) for £13.4m. The acquisition is significant, as it is ComfortDelGro’s first acquisition of its bus operations outside of London. In the capital, its wholly-owned subsidiary, Metroline Ltd, is the second largest public scheduled bus operator, with a fleet of 1,700 vehicles. The Singapore […]
The UK’s new bus and coach market fell in every quarter of 2017, according to figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Following a period of strong growth in 2015 and 2016, last year saw registrations decline by 12.7% to 7,666. Double-deck demand saw the biggest fall across the year, […]
The Department for Transport has begun its consultation over Section 19 permits – but has raised hackles of PSV operating licence holders The promised consultation on Section 19 and 22 has begun but has already come under fire from the Bus and Coach Association’s Martin Allen. The DfT promised a consultation process shortly after issuing […]