Andrew Tyldsley has been appointed to the new role of Head of Commercial at Go North East. Andrew will be responsible for all commercial, marketing and customer service activity and will report directly to MD, Kevin Carr. Andrew was previously Commercial Manager, having joined the operator in 1995 when it acquired OK Motor Services of […]
Despite achieving discouraging results at Group level, Scania’s bus business figures in the nine months ending September 2013 were up. Operating income for the company as a whole fell to £581m/SEK5,939m (2012: £600.1m/SEK6,135m) and earnings per share dropped to 30.52/SEK5.30 (£0.58SEK5.94). Its cash flow amounted to £133.2m/SEK1,362m (£212.8m/SEK2,176m). Scania’s order bookings for buses and coaches […]
Coventry’s first ever smartcard ticket, Coventry ‘n’ Bus, has been launched. The monthly pass costs £43.50 by direct debit and can be used on any bus in the city area regardless of which company runs the service. The launch marks the first of a raft of ticketing options to be made available by West Midlands […]
Arriva Southern Counties has extended its M-Ticket scheme to the Maidstone Park & Ride services. It now means customers using the services that run from three out-of-town car parks into the town centre can buy their day, weekly, four-weekly and twelve-weekly tickets using their mobile phones. The company uses a fleet of five VDL Bus […]
A fleet of vintage buses retraced the route of the first trentbarton services as the company celebrated its 100th birthday earlier this week. The buses ran between Derby and Ashbourne and Derby and Nottingham, exactly 100 years to the day after the launch of the Trent Motor Traction Company. During the event, the company was […]
CPT UK and TfL have launched the Tourist Coach Action Plan, a strategy which sets out a list of achievable actions and goals designed to improve the experience for coach tour operators and drivers coming into London. The five year plan was formally launched at CPT’s annual Coaching Conference in the capital. It focuses on […]
Angus based Charlie Riddler of Riddlers Coaches has handed over the reigns of his coach company to Forfar based JP Mini Coaches. Set up over four decades ago, the operator is a familiar sight on the roads of Tayside and surrounding areas. Raised in rural Angus, Charlie went through a mechanical apprenticeship with Tayford Motors […]
McGill’s Buses supported the most recent National Mod, a celebration of Gaelic culture. Held in Paisley, the event attracted over 15,000 visitors. For the duration of the festival, the operator ran ‘Welcome to Paisley’ messages in Gaelic (‘Failte gu Paislig’) on all of its routes serving the town.