Portsmouth City Coaches, headed by Mike Elkin, has started services. Mike is running the operation using staff, vehicles and the site of Emsworth and District Bus and Coach Services. Mike took over this operation on 1 August 2018 after the operator had its licence revoked and Transport Manager resign. Mike previously worked for Moseley in the […]
A high level of road safety topped drivers’ list of the most important things about their job, according to research by Volvo. Volvo Buses carried out a survey of 1,000 coach and long-distance bus drivers from 34 European countries about their work in spring this year. The majority of answers came from drivers in Finland, […]
The Kings Ferry says part of the attraction and synergy of Stewarts is its dominance of the corporate hire market. Stewarts Coaches has a broad span of work, including private and corporate hire, holidays and day trips through the Woods satellite, and has run a courtesy commuter shuttle into Thames Valley Park from Reading, using […]
Oxford Bus Company’s on-demand ride-sharing service, PickMeUp, has made over 20,000 journeys in the eastern arc of Oxford to date. The Go-Ahead-owned operator claims this is ahead of expectations. More than 10,000 people have signed up to use the service since it launched on 25 June. It enables passengers in eastern Oxford to summon buses […]
Stagecoach West has completed its takeover of Rotala’s Bristol services and taken over eight bus routes in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, saving 70 jobs. It has appointed Mark Rosaman, who started at the bus company as a bus driver in 2000, as operations manager to head up the new team. The bus operator, which covers Gloucestershire, […]
One of China’s key economic powerhouses and the country’s first ‘special economic zone,’ the city of Shenzhen is vast and continues to expand. Close to the border with Hong Kong – the former British colony is part of China, but run separately – it is officially home to 16m people. In reality the population may […]
Yutong currently has two manufacturing sites in Zhengzhou, both massive and both modern. Construction of the first began in 1998 (replacing Yutong’s original plant from 1964) and the second, known as the ‘New Energy’ plant was built in 2012. Covering 1.19 million cubic metres and 1.28m cubic metres respectively, they have a combined capacity of […]
Leaving the European Union is too big an issue for operators to ignore, says the managing director of one of the country’s best-known coach operations. Ian Fraser, who runs National Express-owned The Kings Ferry, says an upcoming conference on 4 October– Beyond Brexit: Moving People – should inform operators who want to stay a step ahead […]