Wrightbus Streetdecks have been rolled out on First West of England’s service 90 in Bristol. These buses are part of the operator’s £15m investment in 59 new buses across the West of England. The investment in 59 new buses for Bristol forms part of an overall order by FirstGroup’s UK bus division of 385 new […]
Volvo has finalised an agreement to supply eight integral Volvo B11R 9700 Euro6 coaches to GoBus.ie in a deal secured at Coach and Bus Live. These latest additions to the fleet will include the new Volvo Driver Support System (DSS) fitted as standard. The DSS includes AEBS (forward collision warning and advanced emergency braking systems), […]
The CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Matthias Müller, and the Chairman of the Group Works Council of Volkswagen AG, Bernd Osterloh, have agreed on the further procedure for investment and capacity planning. A series of talks between the Board of Management and the employee representative body have been set to take place in order to find […]
Henrik Henriksson has become the new President and CEO of Scania AB. He is due to take up the new position on 1 January 2016, succeeding Per Hallberg. Henrik will, from the same date, become a member of the Volkswagen Truck & Bus Management Board (Truck Board). He has been a member of Scania’s Executive […]
As part of a three year project with Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Transport (NCT) has applied for a £6.5m grant from the OLEV (Office for Low Emission Vehicles) Low Emission Bus Scheme. The money would complement a £19m investment being made by NCT to introduce 82 bio-gas double deckers to the fleet over three […]
As part of a wider restructuring in Arriva, Mark Bowd has become Arriva Midlands’ new MD following the departure of former MD, Alex Perry. Although Mark has not held the Arriva Midlands MD role before, he is familiar with the area, having been MD of Arriva Fox County. This latter operation has since merged into […]
According to a recent update on trading from Stagecoach, its business has been ‘consistent’ with its management’s expectations. There is no change to the adjusted earnings per share that it was anticipating for the year ending 30 April 2016. Like-for-like revenue growth for the company’s UK Bus regional operations for the 24 weeks ended 17 […]
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has provisionally announced there will be a 30% average cut to the DfT’s spending over the next four years. Making the announcement prior to the upcoming Spending Review, the decision was part of a wider cost cutting exercise affecting other government departments, including: the Department for Environment, Food and […]