As new and used buses and coaches remain a rarity on the market, more operators are refurbishing older vehicles to ensure they remain as comfortable as ever. For those looking to breathe new life into their fleet, B&CB has spoken to some of the industry’s best refurbishment specialists and suppliers to hear what they believe […]
Unions represented by workers at the Sunsundegui plant – which has filed for financial protection with huge debts – have demonstrated at the town hall, saying they need their pay. The on-line magazine Estella Digital reports that staff are becoming desperate for a solution, having not had their September salaries. The company has hit a […]
Software-as-a-Service fleet management provider Tranzaura is working on new solutions for the bus industry, which it is to reveal more about at the Euro Bus Expo. The news comes as Transdev has said it ‘wholeheartedly’ embraces its solution from Tranzaura. As of September 2024, over 11,000 buses in England (36%) now use the Tranzaura App […]
Greater Manchester’s Bee Network is set to introduce its first new bus route later this month. From 27 October, a new 615 service will connect Wigan with Middlebrook retail park. The hourly service restores a link to the popular retail park that was lost four years ago. In addition, there will be twice as many […]
McGill’s Buses has welcomed Jim Fairlie MSP, Scottish Government Minister for Connectivity, to its Johnstone depot. The politician took a tour of the operator’s facilities and discussed the company’s ambitious journey towards a zero-emission future. The visit coincides with McGill’s celebrating a significant milestone: having covered 12 million electric miles with its growing fleet of […]
Alexander Dennis has today (11 October 2024) announced that Zemo Partnership testing has confirmed a 97% charging efficiency for its next-generation electric buses. This should deliver further financial benefits for customers by reducing total cost of ownership, the manufacturer emphasises. Alexander Dennis says this charging efficiency has been achieved by careful system integration and optimisation, […]
ShuttleID, the school bus ticketing platform, has launched a new style of digital bus ticket for use with ‘brick’ phones. The new ‘Brickets’ development is designed to support an emerging trend of brick phone adoption by parents of school children. ShuttleID’s new brick phone ticket technology is driven by a QR code that displays on […]
Alexander Dennis says it is benefitting from a healthy market position. However, its leadership blames government policies for creating an ‘unfair playing field’ in the zero-emission bus market. Paul Davies, President and Managing Director at Alexander Dennis, is ‘very pleased to report a very good market share’ in terms of bodywork manufacturing, taking a 47% […]