A ‘York by bus’ smartcard has been launched in York. Its introduction follows City of York Council receiving £650,000 as part of a West Yorkshire and York joint bid to the Government’s Better Bus Area Fund to deliver a range of smart ticketing initiatives across the region. The card will allow bus users to buy […]
A sustainability report for the year ended 2 July 2016 has been released by the Go-Ahead Group. The document illustrates the Group’s sustainability performance and progress across all aspects of the organisation’s activity aligned to the strategic priority areas: society, customers, its people and finance. Go-Ahead Group’s Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Manager, David Vazquez, said, […]
Driver CPC cards will no longer be immediately sent to drivers who complete their periodic training more than 12 months before their deadline. If a driver completes their training over a year early, they will not get the new Driver CPC card until nearer the time their current card expires. If a driver completes their […]
Based in Rothbury, Spirit Buses provided daily scheduled bus services between Upper Coquetdale and Alnwick, Northumberland. A regular entrant to Bus and Coach Buyer’s Photo Friday, it was founded in 2013 by Director Steve Hurst. The company’s services are to pass over to PCL Travel, trading as Rural Link. The operator had a special destination […]
Suppliers of products and services are an essential part of our business and over 200 of them took space at Euro Bus Expo displaying their latest innovations or just catching up with customers. Although it wasn’t possible for the Bus and Coach Buyer team to talk to everyone, we discovered much of interest that was […]
At the last Euro Bus Expo in 2014, the talk was all about possible replacements for the discontinued Mercedes-Benz Vario in the 33 seat category. A number of solutions were presented, mostly based on members of the Mercedes-Benz Atego chassis family plus a few other contenders. It was interesting to note which have come through […]
This article concentrates on the large vehicles at the show and their manufacturers and suppliers and for reasons of space may gloss over the details of models that have been extensively covered in pre-show issues. My colleague, Rob Orchard, was also there and has compiled the second part of our report covering the smaller vehicles […]
In an update on its performance over the past 12 months, Rotala reports it has made ‘good progress’ during the year. It says the longer term trading outlook remains in line with market expectations. Growth has been achieved this year predominantly through acquisition, with the company making three acquisitions during the year. Two of these, […]