RHA Coach is calling for members to write directly to their local MP to support an appeal for a 15p per litre diesel duty rebate. The organisation, backed by the giant haulage body RHA, says the rising cost of fuel cannot be met for a great deal of contracted work and comes alongside other cost […]
Wrightbus has opened an onsite recruitment office as it looks to further expand its workforce at its factory in Ballymena, in a bid to continue growing its team. Last year, the company announced it was looking for hundreds more staff following an increase in orders. And in recent weeks, Wrightbus has announced international deals with […]
Construction of the first phase of the Sprint bus rapid transit network has completed in Birmingham, improving cross city travel for millions of people who live and work in and around the region. Sprint is a landmark project, being the first cross city corridor of its kind. The A34 and A45 routes are being delivered […]
CPT Scotland has welcomed the announcement today that Transport Scotland is extending NSG+ for the bus sector until 9 of October 2022. NSG + was introduced to help cover the difference between reduced revenue and increasing costs, largely due to the continuing impact of Covid-19. The £40m scheme was frontloaded to give support to the […]
Sustainability came to the fore in Sweden last week in presentations marking the completion of the introduction of Scania’s new generation bus, coach and chassis range. The renewal process started in 2019 when the Citywide LF was unveiled, followed by the Citywide LE and Interlink and now extending across the entire portfolio. It is not […]
A further £25.7 million is being made available to extend Covid recovery funding to the Scottish bus sector until October 2022. The Network Support Grant (NSG) Plus is a temporary scheme intended to support Scotland’s bus network as the country recovers from the pandemic. NSG Plus aims to support services and protect fares while patronage […]
Ben Werth has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Wrightbus. Ben will take up the role alongside his current position as Managing Director of Wrightbus’s sister company Fuze Finance. A former Director in charge of asset finance at bus and coach firm Mistral Group with more than 26 years’ experience in the bus industry, Ben […]
Brighton’s The Big Lemon has for the first time ever run a fully-zero-emission electric bus fleet on all its public bus routes. Even the operator’s staff shuttle is electric-powered. The operator almost hit a snag in rolling out the zero-emission fleet when a spring snapped on one of its buses. A new spring was ordered from […]