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 […]
Due to the impact of the coronavirus, Bennett Coach Travel of Newton Abbott has entered voluntary liquidation. Director, David Bennett, said: “It was a voluntary decision. We just don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. We just don’t have enough school work to keep us going.” David reports that all Bennett Coach […]
Alpine Travel has been awarded the contract for the new Conwy Valley FFlecsi bus service recently launched in partnership with Transport for Wales and Conwy Borough Council. Fflecsi is a bus service with a fixed start and end destination, which can adjust its route to pick up and drop off passengers anywhere within the designated […]
Transdev is adorning many of its buses on routes across the North with commemorative poppies for the Poppy Appeal. Transdev CEO, Alex Hornby, said: “This year’s Remembrance has additional significance, marking 75 years since the end of World War Two. With the pandemic continuing, this is a year like no other for us all, so […]
As lockdown starts across England, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of March 2021. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) started in March this year. As lockdown plans were announced for November, the Scheme had been planned to continue until December. It will continue to pay up […]
Labour MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Chi Onwurah, has asked the Prime Minister if support similar to that Northern Ireland coach operators are to receive will be made available. She also asked whether he will explain how it can support operators threatened by personal debt guarantees. It follows Rikki Wilson, owner and Director at Group 10 Executive […]