Neatly timed to coincide with the announcement of the QCS Board findings, the latest meeting of the Young Bus Managers Network (YBMN) was held last week at The County Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Supported by the Chris Moyes Scholarship Trust, the organisation is a not-for-profit organisation helping the industry breed and encourage the next generation of managers. […]
Henrik Henriksson has become the new President and CEO of Scania AB. He is due to take up the new position on 1 January 2016, succeeding Per Hallberg. Henrik will, from the same date, become a member of the Volkswagen Truck & Bus Management Board (Truck Board). He has been a member of Scania’s Executive […]
As part of a three year project with Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Transport (NCT) has applied for a £6.5m grant from the OLEV (Office for Low Emission Vehicles) Low Emission Bus Scheme. The money would complement a £19m investment being made by NCT to introduce 82 bio-gas double deckers to the fleet over three […]
As part of a wider restructuring in Arriva, Mark Bowd has become Arriva Midlands’ new MD following the departure of former MD, Alex Perry. Although Mark has not held the Arriva Midlands MD role before, he is familiar with the area, having been MD of Arriva Fox County. This latter operation has since merged into […]
The last few weeks have seen VW making plenty of headlines and all for the wrong reasons. It must be some relief to the management at Wolfsburg, Germany to be able to announce some good news. That good news is the impending arrival in the UK of the first examples of their new mid range […]
According to a recent update on trading from Stagecoach, its business has been ‘consistent’ with its management’s expectations. There is no change to the adjusted earnings per share that it was anticipating for the year ending 30 April 2016. Like-for-like revenue growth for the company’s UK Bus regional operations for the 24 weeks ended 17 […]
The 2015 CPT Scotland Chair is Andrew Jarvis, MD Stagecoach East Scotland who opened the organisation’s annual conference at the Cameron House Hotel on the banks of a misty Loch Lomond by explaining the rationale behind the conference title, pointing out that the industry was arriving at a crossroads at which change was inevitable, which […]
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has provisionally announced there will be a 30% average cut to the DfT’s spending over the next four years. Making the announcement prior to the upcoming Spending Review, the decision was part of a wider cost cutting exercise affecting other government departments, including: the Department for Environment, Food and […]