As well as the usual displays of minibuses, one of the other draws to the Commercial Vehicle Show are the stands of exhibitors showing products and services relevant to the bus and coach market. There were certainly plenty there and Chris Peat reports on some of them. Garage, workshop and repair Bradbury Equipment was holding […]
The CV Show or to give it its correct title the Commercial Vehicle Show, organised by the SMMT, has of recent years become a very popular event at which minibus and coach builders and converters have promoted their products and once again that was the case last week with the staging of the three day […]
Image means a lot in this industry. The service might arrive and get to its destination on time without a hiccup, but if the operation does not physically look right and the team delivering it does not act in a professional manner, then passengers may not return. Drivers and vehicles are an advertisement for the […]
A new Technical Application Submission (TAS) service which allows you to apply for an Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test online was launched earlier this year. The vehicle type approval system is a mine field and not something that I would attempt to try to cover here, but I contacted the DVSA to find out more […]
Highlights of last week’s Budget include the announcements that Fuel Duty is to be frozen and the Severn Crossing toll is to be reduced. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced the Budget on 18 March. It is the final one before the general election in May. Osborne claimed the nation is ‘walking tall again’ […]
Cleaning, it’s an unavoidable necessity, but one that if not done properly can lead to a damaging view of your operation by passengers. Nobody really wants to board a filthy vehicle. At the worst, neglecting cleaning can prove a risk to health and licences. This is why Chris Peat swept his way through The Cleaning […]
Checking licences is important and cannot be overlooked. If an accident on the road involving one of your drivers and vehicles occurs and they do not have a valid licence, then it could mean something as severe as a corporate manslaughter case against you. Chris Peat spoke to Terry Reynolds, founder of Chalcheck, a company […]
Like a lot of technology nowadays, telematics is a rapidly advancing area. A dot on a map on a screen revealing where a vehicle is may have once been impressive, but that’s not so much the case anymore. Telematics has moved on to be much more than that, with one of the biggest trends being […]