Mellor is launching its new Orion Evolution. The Rochdale-based manufacturer describes the vehicle as a ‘size-appropriate’ and ‘cost appropriate’ alternative to what it calls larger, more costly, under-utilised vehicles in the service-bus and specialist transport markets. The new 5.5-tonne, 21+6 passenger bus is designed to provide high-specification/low-cost appeal to what Mellor views as a growing […]
Haydock Commercial Vehicles, the Scania dealer for the Preston-Liverpool-Warrington triangle, Chester and north Wales, has invested £2.7m in a purpose-built, state-of-the-art service centre. The facility is to be built on land adjacent to its existing Walton Summit, Preston site. The old workshop will be demolished to further extend the site’s secure bus, coach, truck and […]
Lancashire-based coach dealer, BASE, has agreed to import Beulas products for sale throughout the UK. The deal will see the full range of Beulas products available to the UK market on both MAN and Scania chassis. BASE says this offers a broad choice of PSVAR compliant specifications on two- and three-axle chassis. Spare parts have […]
Newcastle-based Parkers Executive Coach Hire has ceased trading. On what caused the closure, Director, David Wastell, said: “Basically, Covid and all the lockdowns. We last moved a coach on 27 February. When the Prime Minister announced the first lockdown, the morning after we lost 100% of our work. It was horrendous.” “When the Prime Minister […]
ITT Hub.net has signed a one-year deal with Totalkare to become the sole sponsor of two of its flagship transport industry podcast series. Lunch with Leon, hosted by former Transport for London Managing Director Leon Daniels OBE, is a weekly podcast featuring expert opinions and interviews with leading figures from the transport industry in the […]
Coach Insurance broker McCarron Coates has launched a postcard campaign with which operators can lobby their MP for support. The imaginative ‘Wish You Could Hear’ campaign is aimed at supporting the Honk for Hope group which has been trying to draw the attention of politicians to the plight of coach operators, many of whom are […]
Greater Manchester Police have reported a coach driver and operator in Cumbria for carrying people to a gathering in which several police officers were injured. The gathering on Sunday (8 November) saw 600 people in Piccadilly Gardens contravening the current lockdown restrictions and the Tier 3 restrictions for the city. The police at first tried […]
Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL) has hit back at Unite the union, which claimed recent job losses at the manufacturer’s Guildford site were ‘cynically fast tracked’. ADL has ended 200 jobs after closing its Guildford chassis manufacturing plant. A consultation at the manufacturer’s Scarborough site has ended with 90 employees from a workforce of about 600 […]