One problem with aligning yourself with a prestige brand is that, by association, you will have to match its customer’s expectations. Mercedes-Benz is one such brand, and known for its understandable wariness of allowing coachbuilders and converters to take an angle grinder and welding torch to its vans and chassis. Of course, anyone can, but […]
Apologies to Tubeway Army for the headline, but the question should really be ‘Is electric our friend?’ And the answer is ‘yes.’ My visit a couple of weeks ago to the Cenex LCV2017 event at Millbrook – where vehicle activity is so secretive, you usually have to have a sticker put over the lens of […]
Bicester based Castle Minibus has launched a campaign aiming to make all drivers of vehicles with over eight passengers required to pass their full D1 driver training test. The Greater Than 8 safety initiative has been launched with an online petition to Chris Grayling MP, Secretary of State for Transport. The D1 licence was introduced […]
A response has been made by the Association of Transport Coordinating Officers (ATCO) to the DfT’s recent guidance issued on Section 19 and 22 operators (see B&CB’s special report on this in issue 1442, 11 August 2017). ATCO brings together local authority staff members that are responsible for passenger transport. Its advice into the situation […]
Lucketts Travel has confirmed that the first coach for Portsmouth FC away game matches will be wheelchair accessible. The Fareham based operator is the official away fans’ travel provider, having provided transport for Pompey supporters for many seasons and is also a sponsor. MD of Lucketts Travel, Tony Lawman, said: “Portsmouth fans are a passionate […]
Every two years the International Coach of the Year trophy is handed to the proud directors of a manufacturer at the Busworld exhibition amid camera flashes and congratulatory speeches. Before that can happen, there is the rather less glamorous process of deciding which coach is most worthy of the prize which is, along with the […]
Never before has there been a double-deck member of the Futura family, and the arrival of the Futura FDD2 signals another step towards the final unification of VDL’s constituent brands under the VDL banner, the only remaining exception being the recently updated Jonckheere JHV2. Of VDL’s constituent Berkhof, Bova and Jonckheere coachbuilding concerns, both Berkhof […]
In the job for only ten months, Scania’s Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Buses & Coaches, Karin Radstrom, told the Jury that Scania has doubled its market share and the number of buses it sold between 2012 and 2016, achieving a total of 8,253 in 2016, up 21% on the previous year. It intends […]