Sprinter specialist EVM has created a suite of COVID-19 protection measures which can be retrofitted to its vehicles and added to new vehicles in built. All components will be available to customer for the end of May. The kit includes a screen for the driver protection and between each seat rows, plus a new saloon […]
Investigations are being carried out after one of Diamond Bus‘s double-deckers collided with a bridge in Rochdale. Full story in the Manchester Evening News here.
Stoke-on-Trent-based D&G Bus has expressed concerns that TfGM is threatening to withhold vital funding unless operators agree to a new eight-point list of demands. In March, TfGM wrote to operators with 11 demands in return for making payments mandated by the Government and administered by the region’s transport authority. On 1 April TfGM had to […]
An extension until 31 December 2020 for non-PSVAR compliant buses and coaches to perform rail replacement work has been announced. The government has published a letter allowing applications to extend the period of non-accessibility compliance for PCVs performing rail replacement duties. The exemption is subject to the conditions that train operating companies (TOCs) must source […]
Trade associations representing thousands of tourist businesses, together with the Local Government Association, have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking him to urgently change civil servants’ interpretation of his Coronavirus Business Rates Relief Scheme, launched to support the UK’s hospitality and leisure industries. Tour and coach operators, represented by the Coach Tourism Association, […]
Further pressure has been mounted on the government to support the coach industry during the coronavirus crisis. Trade associations representing thousands of tourist businesses, together with the Local Government Association (LGA), have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking him to urgently change civil servants’ interpretation of his Coronavirus Business Rates Relief Scheme. The […]
Trade union Unite has demanded the extension of the £60,000 life assurance payment for the families of UK’s bus workers. This would give the employees’ families a similar payment as that announced for NHS and social care staff. The call from the trade union follows the deaths of at least 34 transport workers because of […]
Daimler AG has reported a 17% decrease in total unit sales in the quarter ended 31 March 2020. It apportioned the fall to the global spread of the coronavirus. Net profit was €168m (Q1 2019: €2,149m) in the first quarter of 2020. The Daimler Trucks & Buses division showed a decrease in unit sales of […]