Beverley Bell FCILT, Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain and CILT’s new President in the UK, asked guests at the Annual President’s Inauguration Lunch: ‘Why don’t people want to work in our industry?’ Beverley addressed the need to improve and raise the profile of the logistics and transport industry in order to attract more young […]
Transdev in Keighley has launched the ‘Brontë Bus’, the re-branded version of the 500 route between Keighley, Haworth and Hebden Bridge. £210,000 worth of new Wrightbus StreetLites have been placed on the route, fitted with free Wi-Fi and more comfortable seating than the previous vehicles. The service runs hourly, seven days a week. As well […]
National Express Dundee is asking students from Dundee and Angus College to come up with a new look for its buses. The operator launched the design partnership with a visit to its East Dock Street depot by 17 young people from the college’s Computing and Creative Media courses. As part of the company’s aim to […]
In the hurly burly of running a transport concern one area of compliance that is frequently overlooked is that of the operating centre. Many operators have used the same operating centre for generations so that when it is time for a change some common problems can occur. This article raises some of the common problems and […]
SJ. Please can you tell me a little about yourself and your career prior to becoming MD of EvoBus UK? MT. My commercial career started with Daimler in 1984 working on the commercial vehicle side. With the exception of the last four years prior to my assignment here I have not left the commercial vehicle […]
Sir Brian Souter owned PolskiBus.com is adding 25 new Plaxton Elitei coaches to its fleet. Representing an investment of over PLN40m/£7.09m, they are all due in service by the end of the year. They will be equipped with free Wi-Fi and a pair of electrical sockets underneath each seat. The announcement comes as the Polish […]
Andreas Renschler, member of the Board of Management with responsibility for Commercial Vehicles at Volkswagen AG, has been elected to the Supervisory Board of MAN SE. He will take over as chairman of the body until the end of the current period of office. Renschler was previously in the Daimler AG Board of Management. The […]
Stagecoach founder, Sir Brian Souter, has acquired New Zealand operator, Naked Bus. The deal sees Sir Brian bring together two of the country’s leading long distance coach operators, as he plans to combine this latest acquisition with his other similar operator in the country, ManaBus.com. The latter is set to take over the Naked Bus […]