Bristol bus independent Abus has had the decision of the Traffic Commissioner overturned, an appeal deciding the operator is entitled to employ drivers through another company. Traffic Commissioner Kevin Rooney (B&CB 16 November 2018) had said the close relationship between Abus and nearby Mundens, from whom Abus hired drivers, was unusual and unlawful, and suspended […]
There is no shortage of gusto with John Clarfelt, one of the team behind Ticketer, the integrated ticketing system for PCVs. Many might know him as the man in the centre of the always busy and colourful Ticketer stands at the annual bus and coach exhibitions at the NEC (which last year had an outer-space […]
Cummins is celebrating reaching a landmark number of Euro VI engine installations with Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), supplying over 4,500 clean diesel engines to fleets across the UK. The ADL buses are equipped with Cummins B4.5 and B6.7 engines, including integrated hybrid adapted and Stop/Start technology. These engines can offer improved fuel consumption of up […]
The Goodwin family have been in coaching for over a hundred years and have been competing for the coveted Coach of the Year title at the UK Coach Rally for many of them. The 65th UK Coach Rally proved to be their event with Geoff and Suzanne Goodwin’s recently formed Go G VIP business receiving […]
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.