UrbanThings, the company behind UK Bus Checker and Ticketless, has raised £455,000 in new funding. This brings the total raised by the company to £1.5m of capital to date. The initial capital was raised from an existing pool of investors and was subsequently matched by the UK Government’s Future Fund investment scheme. Announced in May, […]
As I stood on a pedestrian bridge shooting pictures of the Honk for Hope London demonstration, I began recognising faces behind the wheel. I was not looking at coaches, I was looking at industry colleagues I have met over 30 years. I know some of them well enough to know that they tend to be […]
Lucketts Travel has been using TruTac compliance control software for over ten years. In recent times, TruTac’s TruLinks API suite has enabled the company to automatically integrate verified vehicle and driver tachograph data direct into other systems. For example, the powerful vehicle distance data is used in systems such as planning maintenance schedules, fuel usage […]
More than 400 coaches convened on London for the latest Honk for Hope UK protest, which aims to draw the government’s attention to a transport sector in crisis. The noisy cavalcade which swept around Parliament Square for more than two hours as coaches filtered in from as far afield as Scotland achieved significant press attention, […]
A cross-party group of MPs have mounted pressure on the government to bring forward of £3bn for zero emission buses as soon as possible. The MPs, who have bus manufacturing sites within their constituencies, have written to the Prime Minister demanding he bring forward the £3bn committed in February to fund investment in “at least […]
CJJ Coaches has launched the new Bracknell Express coach service. The service runs directly from Bracknell Train Station to Heathrow Airport. The journey takes around 50 minutes. According to the operator, because it is direct it will be more reliable than any other current bus service. With COVID-19 public transport requirements still in place, seating […]
Without extra cash from the government, home to school transport could risk not running, according to Tom James of York Pullman. Speaking to Sky News, he believes that once the furlough scheme ends in October, his business could face up to 50% redundancies. With multiple failures in the industry a possibility, getting children to school in […]
A ‘Good to Go’ certification from Visit England has recognised the commitment of Reading Buses to best practice guidelines surrounding COVID-19 measures. To achieve the Good to Go marque, businesses need to show clear evidence of following the Government’s and the industry’s guidelines concerning cleanliness and social distancing. Measures the operator has put in place […]