Optare is to supply 94 Solo buses to the Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai. The deal is valued at circa £18m. Optare will supply 8.5m-long Solos featuring Cummins Euro V engines, air conditioning, onboard wifi and USB charging sockets. The buses will seat up to 24 passengers with additional standing capacity. They are due […]
Spearheading Lothian Motorcoaches’ fleet of 18 vehicles are five new 14-metre tri-axle Plaxton Panther 3’s, liveried in charcoal grey. The bespoke coaches have 61 seats in a charcoal version of Lothian’s unique moquette. They are backed by three fully refurbished Van Hool Acrons in the same livery and specification, and for shorter transfers from, for […]
Almost 50 of the country’s top operators fielded their finest drivers and coaches for this year’s UK Coach Rally – a spectacle which even drew the gaze of Blackpool’s party animals. Now in its 64th year, the rally was the star of the seafront, with the vehicles assembled in the shadow of Blackpool Tower. As […]
There is quite a number of coach businesses who, faced with the increasing amount of employee training foisted on industry, have set up an in-house training school. Usually, the object of the exercise is either to fend off the high cost of external training or to ensure their own staff get training that’s bespoke – […]
Drivers were in tears after it was announced Parnham Coaches of Ludgershall, Wiltshire, is to enter voluntary liquidation. Director, Ray Parnham, made the decision after suffering a considerable loss of business as a result of a driver found to be secretly videoing up school children’s skirts using a hidden camera onboard one of Parnham Coaches’ […]
Optare has marked the delivery of the first batch of 114 Metrocitys for New Zealand. To mark the occasion, the manufacturer held a special ceremony at the British High Commission in the country’s capital, Wellington. Acting British High Commissioner, Helen Smith, cut the ribbon on the first bus of Optare’s biggest ever Australasian export order, […]
Remotely monitoring vehicle systems to provide cost-saving preventative maintenance is more attainable than ever. Rob Orchard learns about the innovative AD Connected process for cloud-based vehicle inspection, servicing and maintenance records. Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL), Britain’s biggest bus and coach manufacturer, is a past master at introducing innovative new vehicles but their latest product is […]
More than 30 people were killed or seriously injured in motorway accidents in 2016 due to illegal or faulty tyres. But an 18-month study says commuters, commercial drivers and other road users can do a lot more to help reduce accidents through regular checking. See how Bridgestone tested 1,000 tyre fragments Richard Leonard, Highways England’s […]