As you will read here, the Transport Select Committee has now heard evidence from a number of key figures on the subject of the impact of the new guidelines for using S19 and 22 bus permits. Before that hearing, a number of parties responded to a consultation exercise, putting their point of view. It’s actually […]
EVM and Northside Truck and Van in Sheffield are supplying 260 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter school bus specification vehicles to OneBus. The order is worth over £12m. Based on a medium-wheelbase 314Cdi Sprinter with 7G-Tronic gearbox, the vehicles feature in-dash and saloon air conditioning and heating and were supplied by Northside Truck and Van. In a change […]
Ashley Griffiths of Williams Coaches of Brecon is the first winner of a Pride & Joy All Stars award. The high-flying driver for Williams Coaches was praised by his nominator, Rose Williams, Operations Director at Williams Coaches: “Ashley has a great future ahead of him in the industry. He embraces training opportunities, technological advances and […]
Bus & Coach Sales Centre in Coventry to be refurbished As we revealed in last week’s news section, Volvo Bus has announced that it has received planning permission for a major redevelopment of its Bus & Coach Sales Centre at Coventry. The £1.3m project will quadruple the existing office space to more than 700 square […]
Nobody expects to bury their child, and when an eleven-year-old takes his own life as a direct result of bullying on the school bus, something has to change. This is what the parents of Ben Vodden had to face in December 2006 when they found him unconscious in his bedroom after hanging himself. He had […]
This weekend, we will fall silent, as did the guns on World War One’s battlefields in 1918, and remember our losses in conflict. There are many among us who abhor politicians who have given spurious reasons to go to war over the last 100 years, but none of us who do not value those who […]
3 January 2018 EAST OF ENGLAND New Applications Granted SN SHAFI MAHOMED 40 KITCHENER ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4AS Operating Centre: 64-66 GOUGH ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4AN Authorisation: 1 vehicle(s) Transport Manager(s): HENRY THOMPSON 3 January 2018 LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND New Applications Granted SN SOUTHERN TRANSIT BUS COMPANY LIMITED Director(s): Neil Douglas Bird […]
Volvo Bus has received planning permission for a major redevelopment of its Bus & Coach Sales Centre at Coventry. The £1.3m project will quadruple the existing office space to more than 700 square metres. Here is a selection of artist’s impressions of the new site.