Stagecoach has delivered a strong set of full-year results, but with an underlying downward trend, which has seen a slide in operating profit, profit before tax, margins and earnings per share. In a year which has seen a withdrawal from Megabus Europe, an exit from Sightseeing in New York, tender losses in London and the […]
Baumot UK in partnership with Mistral Asset Finance is offering a funding structure to enable bus and coach operators to carry out a Euro VI upgrade to their fleets. The funding structure enables operators who want to upgrade their fleet but who are reluctant to spend the capital cost to fit the new systems for upcoming […]
Out on the road, it’s obvious within a few miles that Beulas’ Aura with MAN’s RR4 tri-axle chassis is every bit a driver’s machine. The 26.500 chassis with 500bhp and enough torque to pull up trees barely gets out of breath as we traverse the roads around Moseley PCV’s Pontefract base. Bus & Coach Buyer’s […]
Carlyle Bus & Coach has strengthened its existing glazing business with a partnership with Reglaze Specialist Bus & Coach Glazing. The alliance will aim to expand on the glazing business and will continue to cover all areas of the UK and Europe with a 24-hour operation. With an extensive amount of stock held in various […]
Coventry-based Harry Shaw has won a contract worth around £9.5m over five years. Comprising of 24 coach services, it will see the operator transport students to and from Reaseheath College in the outskirts of Nantwich, Cheshire. The network of free home to college transport will start in September. The routes will link students to the […]
Reading Buses has placed the first-ever order for the Optare Metrodecker Euro VI. The operator has requested five of the double-deckers to operate on the Green Line 702 route between London and Windsor. They are due for delivery in June 2019 ahead of the capital’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) coming into operation. Optare and […]
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced 68 new zero-emission electric double-deckers will join London’s fleet next summer. The new buses are to be manufactured by the BYD/ADL partnership and Optare. It is thought this will be the largest double-decker electric bus fleet in Europe. They are to be used on two routes run by […]
Europe’s cities are moving to electric power. They are going at different paces in different places, but the impetus is to electromobility. The Netherlands isn’t a huge country – you can drive a coach from one end to the other in three hours – but it is committed to all of the electricity it uses […]