Ayrshire-based Keenan of Ayr Coach Travel has entered liquidation. Operated by husband and wife, Jamie and Sandra Keenan, the company went into liquidation earlier this month. It follows over 60 years of coach hire provision to its area. According to press reports, staff were stunned at finding they would lose their jobs as a result […]
In conjunction with the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) recruitment week, the Reading Buses Group is currently recruiting coach drivers for its Newbury & District operation. It is hoping that the CPT week-long initiative which started yesterday (Monday February 21) will help to encourage more people to consider a career in the bus and coach […]
Reading Buses has added more journeys to its Green Line 703 route serving Heathrow airport. Green Line 703 connects Bracknell with Heathrow T5 via Windsor, Slough and Colnbrook running hourly, seven days a week. Two new morning journeys, from Slough to Heathrow, have been introduced at 3.26am and 4.26am. An additional late journey from Heathrow […]
Greater Manchester’s clean air leaders will meet next week (February 28) to consider the steps towards a new plan for a CAZ, after being granted a delay to the original 30 May date. Greater Manchester had been legally bound to implement a charging category C Clean Air Zone but appealed the deadline. Its plan exempted […]
I am old enough to recall a report by, I think, Shearings saying that the coach industry is the Cinderella of travel something wonderful which creeps under the radar of many people. It was quite clear to most of us that nothing much had changed so far as government is concerned in the dark days […]
A report from the Transport for New Homes group has identified that, in the dramatic house-building boom that’s going on, nobody is thinking about buses. This report chimed with me. In BCB’s home town of Peterborough, a new development on the edge of the city I drove through could barely accommodate my car, let alone […]
Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD UK is to supply over 130 Enviro400EV electric double-deckers to EV fleet and battery storage specialist Zenobē and National Express. The BYD ADL partnership will also support these vehicles with spare parts over a period of 16 years. The buses will help to make Coventry the UK’s first all-electric […]
Registration figures for new buses and coaches in 2021 represented the ‘worst year since records began’, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and traders (SMMT). The UK new bus and coach market declined by 16.8% in 2021, with registrations falling to 3,467 vehicles, according to SMMT’s figures. Quarter four saw figures down 31.6% to […]