CPT is urging ministers to support the industry now or risk what it describes as the decimation of a national bus network that is getting critical sector employees to work during the current crisis. It described the sector as being central to communities and regional economies all year round. The trade body claims that as […]
The Confederation of Passenger Transport has urged government to maintain contract payment for home-to-school services even when schools are closed to protect the services. Graham said: “This is an understandable decision and one which the Government has made in the best interests of tackling this outbreak. “We also need to have one eye on the […]
Due to the affects of the coronavirus, the IRTE Skills Challenge is to be postponed until later in the year. The organisers emphasise the importance it puts on everyone who wishes to take part being able to do so. They acknowledge that as the COVID-19 situation develops, staff shortages, restrictions on travel and school closures […]
Tony Shaw, Senior Duty Manager, looks pleased as he casts his eyes across the screen at the map showing the whereabouts of the operator’s Tees Flex fleet. Tony said: “It’s 11am on a Wednesday morning and they’re all busy.” Tony is the man that presides over the service, keeping a careful eye on the screen […]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ITT Hub 2020 event has been postponed. The exhibition and conference has been rescheduled for 12 and 13 May 2021. Organisers, Binswood Media, said the decision has not been taken lightly. It has been made in the best interests of exhibitors, visitors and staff, and is fully supported […]
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 […]