As the industry struggles with the affects of the outbreak of COVID-19, the CPT is collecting data from members to help in its request for support from the government. It is gathering details on losses among operators. CPT’s CEO, Graham Vidler, has written to Baroness Vere to seek the Government’s support for the bus and […]
Irish operator Philip O’Callaghan of J. O’Callaghan & Sons in County Kerry told Bus and Coach Buyer that just four days saw the business come to a halt. “On Monday I talked to the staff about business difficulties and on Thursday, I had to lay them all off. We have no business. No schools, no […]
We couldn’t really have chosen a worse day to road test a coach – at the peak of Storm Jorge, who was busy dumping a month’s rainfall on the north-west in 24 hours. But if anything was going to show up any deficiencies in MAN’s tweaked Tourliner, Storm Jorge was it. The rain coupled with […]
Five fully-electric, low floor Mellor Orion E small buses have been supplied to Community Transport Glasgow (CTG). The provision of the vehicles is part of a strategy to move to a fully electric fleet, which is in line with Glasgow City Council’s overall ambition to become the UK’s first city to become fully carbon neutral. […]
Kent-based Go-Coach is to launch a demand responsive transport (DRT) service in May. It is thought to be the first independent operator to do so. Entitled Go2, the service will see four new Ford Transit Tourneos enter service on the DRTs on 11 May. It is also thought to be the first to use small […]
Irizar (UK)’s new Managing Director, Andrew Blundell, brings over 25 years of experience in the transport and logistics sectors to the post. He was most recently Transport Development Director at leading British logistics company Bibby Distribution, but also has specific coach-industry experience from his time as Operations Director at Alfa Travel of Chorley. Other famous […]
At its biggest conference yet, the Coach Tourism Association outlined what’s in store for European touring after Brexit. The annual event, this year at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in York, drew more than 160 delegates including coach operators and suppliers, with an agenda of familiarisation trips around York, dinners and networking events. The conference […]
National Express has completed the purchase of Fareham-based Lucketts Travel Group. As well as operating scheduled services on behalf of National Express the family-owned business provides private hire, chartered holiday and day trip services to tens of thousands of customers every year. The Lucketts Travel Group, which includes Coliseum Coaches, Mortons Travel, Solent Coaches and […]