Let’s come clean. The elephant in the room is the road test a few weeks back of Scania’s 13.2-metre tri-axle Irizar i6S. They’re very similar super-high coaches in very similar niches – the Scania with 53 seats, the DAF-based Integral with 55, but aside from the driveline, the package is very similar. Both have automated […]
Lothian chose the eve of the UK Coach Rally to demonstrate its new interurban coaches from ADL Plaxton to the press. David Cole joined them on the road to Fleetwood As previewed in last week’s issue, two of the eight new Volvo B8R based Plaxton Leopard Interurban coaches ordered by Lothian were brought to Blackpool […]
London’s ULEZ began this week, charging non-Euro VI coaches £100 a day to reach the former Congestion Charging zone. The scheme, brought forward 18 months by Mayor Sadiq Khan, has proven controversial (see London Latest, this issue), with some Euro VI coaches registered in 2015 still not on the Transport for London database, and Euro […]
Go G VIP won the Coach of the Year award at the UK Coach Rally in Blackpool. See this week’s issue for the full list of winners and coverage of the event.
Logan’s Executive Travel of Dunloy in County Antrim is the launch customer for the new version of Plaxton’s Elite. Two-axle versions of the Elite are now available on the Volvo B8R chassis. Logan’s has taken ten of them for the 2019 season. The first of these new coaches were shown at the UK Coach Rally […]
Conwy-based Abacab Coaches has been bought by Alpine Travel of Llandudno. Abacab has a fleet of luxury coaches, specialising in private hire. The family-run company was founded in 1987. The takeover facilitates the retirement of Abacab owners, Chris and Denise Jones. The Abacab fleet consists of five vehicles, all of which have been acquired along […]
UPDATED: See DVSA statement below The DVLA has declared a three-week amnesty on tachograph offences on new coaches after calibration engineers were issued with faulty equipment. The calibration issue surfaced this week as dealerships sought to deliver new vehicles. According to one source, the calibration cards issued to testers will only calibrate new ‘smart’ […]
Coach drivers below the age of 40 are a rarity, it would seem. But there are exceptions, like Dale Worsfold from Shaws of Whitley, who is in his 20s and loving coach driving (see B&CB 1518, 22 February 2019). When we published the article featuring Dale, Johnsons Coaches of Hibalstow, a village near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire […]