Transdev-owned The Harrogate Bus Company is to bring back its ‘Sunday Freeway’ free bus journeys from 6 December. Harrogate Business Improvement District (BID), a group of local firms aiming to provide extra incentives to attract more people to shop local, is sponsoring the electric bus service. Harrogate BID has agreed to keep on supporting the […]
With shops re-opening and a range of retailers online, there’s still time to get that special model bus in time for Christmas. The range of new models is more limited this year as production capacity in China experienced the early impact of the pandemic and demand has been high for those releases that have reached […]
The business was started by Chris’s father, Ernie Dudley, a motor mechanic, in July 1938. He had completed an apprenticeship with the Austin dealers, Morralls of Evesham, and subsequently worked for Ford dealers, Coulters, which explained his preference for the Ford brand in the early years. It wasn’t initially a coach business but a retail […]
The UK’s largest independent insurance broker to the UK coach and bus industry, Wrightsure, has reassured operators with a tour offering that its specialist surety insurers continue to provide consumer protection packages. Some ‘bonding’ schemes are now closing their books, having been exposed heavily during the pandemic, but Wrightsure says its insurance products are still […]
Yutong has received an order for 1,002 buses from Mowasalat, the Qatar public transport company, that will provide commuting services for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Of the vehicles ordered, 741 of them will be electric, making it the largest order of electric buses ever. During the event, Yutong Bus also signed a framework […]
The hard fact is, buses are proportionately more involved in bridge strikes than trucks, and it’s time to do more to prevent them, says Senior Traffic Commissioner, Kevin Rooney. Stone King’s ‘Bridge Strike Awareness’ even brought together bus operators and a number of experts from academia and from National Rail to find out what’s happening, […]
Hotelier and coach operator, Daish’s Holidays, has acquired Robinsons Holidays. The acquisition expands its current portfolio to 12 hotels, which are located in ten tourist destinations across the UK. As part of the takeover, the UK break specialist has welcomed the Imperial Hotel in Eastbourne and the Abbey Lawn Hotel in Torquay to the Daish’s […]
Optare’s Indian parent company, Ashok Leyland, is changing the bus manufacturer’s name to Switch Mobility Ltd. The change of moniker is to reflect the company’s drive towards electrification and new mobility services. Dheeraj Hinduja, Chairman of Ashok Leyland, said: “Optare is adopting a new identity and logo as Switch, which signals our strategic ambitions in […]