After having what it described as the most extensive product renewal in its history in 2013, Volvo Group’s net sales declined 9% in the year to £25.8bn/SEK272.6bn (2012: £28.4m/SEK299.8bn). The company’s operating income amounted to £0.7bn/SEK7.9bn (2012: £1.9bnSEK19.6bn). Its product renewal package put pressures on its earnings, according to a statement on its figures. The […]
Kinchbus has been praised by Member of Parliament for Loughborough, Nicky Morgan MP, for its Freeride Wednesday promotion. The operator is offering free travel into Loughborough between 10.00 and 11.00 on Wednesdays this month. The initiative follows Freeride Sunday, a similar campaign by sister company trentbarton this past January, which saw an increase of around […]
From 5 April 2014, all UK workplaces must display a new and updated Health & Safety Law poster. However, workplace equipment supplier Slingsby, claims many are unaware of the new legislation. The company supplies more than 35,000 workplace products across all industries and was one of the first to start selling the new poster in […]
Across the six Stagecoach depots in the north east, staff raised £25,250 for various charities over the festive period. Notably, Robert Taylor and Mark Johnston, bus drivers from Stagecoach North East’s Sunderland depot, collected £2,180 for St. Benedict’s Hospice and the North of England Children’s Cancer Research Fund (NECCR). The pair dressed as elves, snowmen […]
Transport campaign group, Greener Journeys, has called on the Government to adopt a nationally funded concessionary scheme to assist people in the first year of an apprenticeship with the cost of getting to work by bus. According to the organisation, the initiative would not only help tackle the cost of accessing work on an ‘apprentice […]
Volvo Bus has launched a dedicated Facebook presence in the UK and Ireland (https://facebook.com/VolvoBusUK). The page supplements the existing dedicated UK and Ireland Twitter page (https://twitter.com/VolvoBusUK) and provides more localised information than the internationally recognised Volvo Buses Facebook page. Volvo Bus UK and Ireland Marketing Manager, Pam Matthews, said, ‘The purpose of launching this new […]
Arriva Southern Counties has unveiled a gold painted Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer to congratulate Winter Olympics gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold. The bus is in use on service 478, that links Lizzy’s home village of West Kingsdown with Farningham, Eynsford and Swanley. Lizzy was unable to attend the launch, but left a message thanking the local […]
Three trentbarton apprentices have reached the finals of the City of Coventry Freeman’s Awards and were presented with certificates to recognise their achievements. The finalists were Harry Burns, Scott Hutchinson and Alex Wright. The apprentices are part of a three year programme, which includes attending a specialist training course at City College Coventry. At present, […]