Pelican Bus & Coach has announced the arrival in the UK of the first electric coach to be offered to UK and Irish operators. Named the TCe12, it joins the GT12, TC12 and TC9 in the Yutong coach range. The TCe12 is an evolution of the ICe12 electric intercity coach already in service in Paris […]
Mystery surrounds the demise of Rednal-based Euro Liners. According to local press, the company has seemingly gone AWOL. The 97/98 commercial bus service Euro Liners operated in Bromsgrove has ceased operating. Local press has reported that a driver turned up to work at Euro Liners and found the business boarded-up. Eye witness reports claim the […]
Yellow Buses has been acquired by its management team for an undisclosed sum. David Squire, MD; Simon Newport, Commercial Director and Phil Pannell, Service Delivery Director, are now equal shareholders in Bournemouth Transport Limited (BTL). They bought the business out from French owners, RATP Dev. BTL trades under the names Yellow Buses and Yellow Coaches. […]
Buzzlines Travel in Kent has suddenly closed, with its home page announcing it is in the hands of insolvency practitioners. The Lympne travel company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Buzzlines Coaches. Full story in next week’s magazine – out Friday, and on-line Thursday morning.
The ‘Golden Triangle’ between the M1, M6 and M69 supports a fast-growing logistics infrastructure generating a need for quality support services for the many vehicles operating out of the area. Keltruck has had a presence in the Lutterworth area for a number of years and recently opened state of the art new premises supporting the […]
First Bus has announced its intention to sell its Bolton bus depot and operations to Rotala Plc. The intended sale would include the Bolton depot site, with 18 bus services transferring across to Rotala. The sale is expected to complete in the next few months and more than 500 employees who work for the Bolton […]
A growing number of operators whose businesses are built on full-sized coaches are buying minicoaches for their fleet, evidenced by new sales in this sector growing while coach sales are shrinking. The king of the road for minicoaches has, for some time, been Mercedes-Benz’ nimble Sprinter, mostly as van conversions, to create upwards of 16 […]
The government will fail to deliver on time the vehicle data system promised for Clean Air Zones in Birmingham and Leeds, and has also reneged on its promise to provide a CAZ payment system, burdening councils with the cost. Both Birmingham City Council and Leeds City Council say they had been on track to implement […]