In the days before Salvador Caetano’s UK operations were centred on contracts with National Express, it was a significant player in the small coach market. Successive generations of the Toyota Coaster based Optimo were offered for three decades from 1985 but there were also other options including a number of Fiat or Iveco products tracing […]
With grant support from the Government Office for Low Emission Vehicles, Arriva has recently taken delivery of 174 new Volvo B5LH double deck hybrids. They join an existing batch of 44 Volvo hybrid buses that the company purchased in 2013 for its North West services. From the order, 123 are for company’s London operations and […]
Irizar’s i6S coach has received the 2017 Coach of the Year award in Spain. This is the seventh time the manufacturer has received this award and the third consecutive year it has done so for its latest coach model. MD and CEO of Irizar Group, José Manuel Orcasitas, said, ‘We just have to go back […]
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), is now looking at ways to improve the timetable of the 89 service. In particular, it is aiming to reduce a three hour wait for a return service from Solihull and Coventry. The rural route serves Solihull, Hampton in Arden, Meriden, Berkswell, […]
With 2017 well and truly underway, we all want it to be a success for our businesses. One way to help guarantee this is to make sure all staff are well versed in their job. Training is key to this, whether that is giving employees the skills to succeed in the first place or just […]
Following the long term evaluation of the Optare Metrodecker with First Bus in Rotherham (B&CB 1384, 24 June 2016) which both parties agreed delivered significant and positive feedback, a further partnership between the two organisations has undertaken a long term evaluation of the Euro6 Metrocity 12Tonnes GVW single decker on Red Arrow routes in Halifax. […]
The Supreme Court has published its judgement in the case of First Group Plc vs Paulley, a wheelchair user heard on appeal from the Court of Appeal. In a statement accompanying its judgement, the Supreme Court stated: ‘The issue in this appeal is the reasonable adjustments which a bus company is required to make to […]
The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) investigated and cleared the completed acquisition by East Coast Buses Ltd (part of Lothian Buses) of the east coast operations of First Scotland East Ltd. On 15 September 2016, the CMA served an initial enforcement order under section 72(2) of the Enterprise Act 2002 on Transport for Edinburgh Ltd […]