CPT is holding its Bus and Coach Conference at the Eastside Rooms in Birmingham on 30 and 31 March. It is free to attend for CPT members. This year’s two-day event brings together operators, suppliers, key stakeholders and Government Ministers and officials. Keynote speakers and panellists already confirmed include Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill who […]

MAN Truck & Bus is reorganising the management of its bus business as part of a package of measures to transform the unit. In the newly created role of Head of Bus (HoB), Barbaros Oktay will assume overall entrepreneurial responsibility for the bus unit. He will report directly to MAN CEO, Alexander Vlaskamp and will have […]

FlixBus is launching a service between Manchester and Newcastle with new partner, Belle Vue. The Stockport-based operator is to begin serving FlixBus passengers between Manchester, Leeds, Middlesborough, Sunderland and Newcastle at the end of April, with a regular, daily service. As part of the new partnership, Belle Vue will add a brand new FlixBus branded […]

Today is International Women’s Day and the bus and coach industry has marked the occasion. Go-Ahead has released figures showing the number of women drivers at its UK-wide network of bus companies has risen by 20% in a year following a wide range of efforts to attract more applicants. Overall, female representation among Go-Ahead’s 11,000 […]

An interesting report landed on my desk which should be ringing some early warning bells for the industry. The EU will have no new ICE cars for sale in 12 years’ time; only electrics. The reality of this is that manufacturers will be winding down combustion-engined car production much sooner and, as battery and hydrogen […]

Plans to cancel the popular coach destination of Lincoln Christmas Market are to be scrutinised. The city’s Conservative Group on the Council is formally calling in the decision by the city’s Labour Councillors. This means a scrutiny committee of the Council will have to look again at how this decision was made. The news that […]

Changes to the Driver CPC are sensible and probably long overdue, though the changes being mooted by the Government may not be those that are needed. In the main, the reason the DCPC is so loathed by many drivers is that the training hoops they are being asked to jump through have little or no […]

Alexander Dennis’ AD24 aftermarket service is preparing its aftermarket for an increase in operator refurbishment requests, anticipating an increase in vehicle refurbishments through its workshops as it continues to see operators lengthen the life of their fleets. The unprecedented, extended period of inactivity for bus operators’ vehicles due to the pandemic is now allowing some […]