Two new AOS Isuzu Grand Toro 35-seat midicoaches have been delivered to Xelacoach at Eastleigh to further expand its coaching division. The 35-seaters supplied by Dawsongroup Bus & Coach have already proved ideal for small group travel as well as newly awarded school contracts. Gareth Blair, Managing Director of Xelagroup, said: “Since changing our position […]
Glenn De Sousa has been appointed as Head of Commercial at Oxford Bus Group. He is tasked with helping to drive strategic partnerships as part of the operator’s network growth plan. His promotion follows a restructure of the group’s commercial department to underpin continued growth. Mr De Sousa’s role will include enhanced responsibilities for publicity […]
Wrightbus‘ planned hydrogen coach is expected to be in production by 2026. Jean-Marc Gales, Wrightbus CEO, told B&CB that a prototype model intended to demonstrate the powertrain is expected towards the end of this year. Jean-Marc said: “The concept is ready, the predevelopment work has been done, so we are confident we can launch it […]
First Bus and City of York Council have announced that York now boasts the UK’s biggest all-electric Park and Ride bus network. The achievement comes with the introduction of a double-decker zero emission bus on the Rawcliffe Bar Service 2 circular, west of the city centre, which replaces an articulated diesel vehicle. It means the […]
Tower Transit is to improve access to its bus services in the Channel Islands using Omnibus’ General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Exporter. The GTFS Exporter will take scheduled service information from the operator’s cloud-based Omnibus scheduling suite and create all the data structures and formatting required for a compliant data export. This export can be […]
CPT has raised over £500 for Eastbourne RNLI. The CPT raised the funds at its South East and London Annual Dinner last autumn at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, which had over 120 attendees. CPT’s London and South East Chairman, Matthew Arnold, was on hand to present Eastbourne RNLI’s Operations Manager, Carl Pocock, their cheque […]
Wrightbus has received orders for 103 of its zero-emission buses for London. Stagecoach has ordered another 16 zero-emission Wrightbus vehicles, with Arriva ordering 87. Stagecoach’s battery electric StreetDeck Electroliners come on the back of 48 of these delivered last year. “As well as being good for the environment, these buses will also ensure passengers enjoy […]
Shaun Millar has joined Alexander Dennis‘ fleet sales team to focus on the UK’s large independent and municipal bus operators. Alexander Dennis says it has created this new National Account Manager role to ensure that capturing its customers’ needs is its top priority. Shaun’s focus will be on understanding customers fleet requirements in terms of […]