Specialist bus and coach insurance broker, McCarron Coates, has been shortlisted for two awards in the prestigious National Insurance Awards. The team, led by directors Ian McCarron and Paul Coates, are finalists for Commercial Lines Broker of the Year and Commercial Lines Specialist Broker of the Year. The two award nominations have been achieved on […]
Go-Ahead-owned Excelsior Coaches has taken on drivers of the now defunct Sea View Coaches (Poole) Ltd. The Bournemouth-based company will also be honouring Sea View Coaches bookings. Poole-based Sea View Coaches went into administration last year at the start of the pandemic. At the time, 17 drivers lost their jobs. “Sea View Coaches was an […]
First launched in 2017, BUS2BUS is Germany’s only major bus and coach industry event, staged biennially by Messe Berlin and bdo e.V., the country’s trade association for bus and coach operators. Pandemic driven, 2021’s event has been rescheduled for April 2022 but a special virtual edition took place on 15 April, attracting over 900 participants […]
First Aberdeen‘s hydrogen-powered double-deckers from Wrightbus have completed 100,000 miles of operation. The hydrogen buses are predominantly operating on the Service 19 route in Aberdeen. To support the fleet’s deployment, Wrightbus installed a support team of hydrogen specialists on the ground in Aberdeen as well as an escalation team and a technical back-up team on […]
Industrial action by Go North West staff continues amid reports of unruly behaviour and harassment by people believed to be associated with the striking bus-workers. Industrial action is being taken by some employees of the Go-Ahead-owned operation in Manchester over proposed changes to working practices. The latest peace talks between the company’s management and trade […]
Stagecoach has unveiled what it is calling a heritage bus that will serve communities across Aberdeen city and Aberdeenshire. The ADL Enviro200 has been given the mid-1980s livery of its predecessor, Northern Scottish Omibuses, which traded as Bluebird Northern. Stagecoach bought this company in March 1991. The team at the Stagecoach Tullos depot in Aberdeen […]
FirstGroup’s shares rose dramatically this morning (23 April) as it was announced the transport giant has entered into an agreement to sell its First Student and First Transit operations in the US to EQT Infrastructure for £3.3bn ($4.6bn). First’s Board formally announced the commencement of a sale process for the Group’s North American contract businesses […]
Rudi Kuchta, who heads the bus business unit at MAN Truck & Bus, has been appointed as Chairman of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). ACEA brings together Europe’s five main bus and coach manufacturers: Daimler, Iveco, MAN, Scania and Volvo Group. Mr Kuchta takes over the role of Chairman of the ACEA Bus and […]