As Jorma Halonen steps down from the Optare Board of Directors, Ashok Leyland Ltd CFO, Gopal Mahadevan, has been appointed to the Board as Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Gopal is a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary with 25 years’ experience in finance function across a variety of industries. He started his career with […]
Buses operating in Wiltshire and the Chilterns are set to have cleaner exhaust fumes following DfT funding. Wiltshire Council is to receive £361,000 to upgrade 19 existing buses with technology that will cut toxic pollutants, while Chiltern District Council will get £150,000 for similar work on ten buses. This builds on the £85,000 already used […]
Operators represented by CPT Cymru have warned against the Welsh Government’s plans to cut £24m of its funding for senior citizens’ concessionary bus travel. If this proposal goes ahead, it will lead to ‘major service cuts and job losses’, according to the operators. The Welsh Government has confirmed a three year funding package of £189m […]
MD of Bakers Coaches of Biddulph, Stoke on Trent, Phil Baker, has retired after nearly four decades at the forefront of the business. The company was founded by Phil’s father, James Baker, in 1936 and from humble beginnings as a garage and chauffer business it has progressed under Phil’s stewardship into what has been described […]
Managers, Owners, Directors and guests from a range of East Anglian coach operators enjoyed the annual Mid Anglian Coach Operators Association (MACOA) dinner held at the Bedford Lodge hotel, Newmarket. There were a hundred attendees, with 14 operators from across the Anglian region represented including Richmonds, Dews, Kenzies, Neals Travel, Saffords, Judds, Decker Bus, Grey’s […]
In a speech to the Commons, Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin, paid tribute to bus and coach companies for their work in keeping the nation on the move during the recent flooding. He praised the industry after meeting a delegation from the CPT and the five largest PCV operators in the country (National […]
Coach parking facilities on The Mall in London have changed. They will now be open from 09.00 to 18.00 (or dusk) on Monday to Saturday. Permits can now be booked through an easy to use online booking facility and will need to register with the Royal Parks in advance. Eight coach parking bays will be […]
Chesterfield based Leisurewear Direct (LWD) is to rebrand on 30 April 2014. The uniform and workwear supplier already has a new logo prepared and is currently gearing its website towards the industry. Its Director, Jane Drayton, has completed Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 business entrepreneurs Cohort 6 programme, a rigorous application and interview process and a four […]