If Sadiq Khan gets his way, as it seems he will, the Ultra Low Emission Zone will force thousands of coach tourists and visitors out of London in 2019. It’s quite simple; if you don’t have a Euro 6 coach, you’ll pay £100 or perhaps £200 a time to the Mayor to get into the […]
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a new £86.1m retrofit project on London buses. It will see around 5,000 buses upgraded to Euro 6 emissions standard. It is expected to mean that by September 2020 the entire bus fleet will be at least Euro 6 standard. TfL is to work with bus operators and […]
A coach driver has spoken of co-driving for 21 hours to find his accommodation on a school trip was a tent, and a shower block shared with students. The driver, identified only as Steve, was backed up on the BBC radio programme You and Yours by a female driver, who says her rest was expected […]
Tyred, a campaign aimed at banning tyres older than ten years from being used by coaches or buses, has been relaunched. Its social media and website have all gone live and already gaining support, with National Express having signed up as the first commercial backer. The initiative was launched by Frances Molloy, whose 18-year-old son, […]
Recent years have posed some challenges for Yorkshire Tiger, Arriva’s stand-alone operation in West Yorkshire. Fire, flood and management change all took their toll before a new team led by MD, Simon Finnie, took control during 2016. David Cole met up with Simon and his team at the launch of the company’s latest vehicles to […]
Lucketts Travel has signed a deal to provide transport for Portsmouth FC players for the next season. The football club has appointed the Fareham coach firm to provide its official team travel and will use the company’s new VIP coach, an Irizar i8. Portsmouth FC is the first organisation to sign up to use the […]
Richard Bamber, Chair of CPT North Western, is urging members to join him for the next regional meeting on Monday 10 July under the watchful eye of Concorde at the Runway Visitor Park, Manchester Airport. As well as receiving the latest news and industry updates from CPT, those joining for the evening (from 1730hrs) will […]
In revising Tourismo, Mercedes-Benz had a hard act to follow, because the existing Tourismo range is already the best-selling touring coach in Europe, with a market share of around 20%. Some 2,097 were built in 2016 and a total of over 26,000 have left the factory since the first coach to carry the Tourismo name […]