As we have mentioned numerous times in Bus and Coach Buyer, keeping vehicles clean is all part of what can be done to attract and retain passengers. This is not too hard to do with a smaller fleet, but as vehicle numbers get higher and depots to house them get larger, it becomes an ever […]
William Cannon has been beavering away for years at his base in Strabane, in the west of Northern Ireland, developing bus chassis. In his own small way he has been quite successful building and selling a small number of chassis which those operators who have bought them have been very satisfied with. William’s latest invention […]
The two day course, led by Aftersales Specialists, Pat Hogan and Steve Lilley, is offered to customers when they purchase the Neoplan Tourliner. MAN Truck & Bus Manchester has just hosted one of the training sessions, with delegates from eight operators. Pat said, ‘We know from experience that most operators run their own maintenance programmes […]
Lancashire United has launched Red Express, the new brand for its X41 route between Blackburn, Accrington, Haslingden and Manchester. Operating every 30 minutes, the buses on the route have been given a new look and now feature Wi-Fi, USB power points and coach style leather seats. Transdev’s CEO, Alex Hornby, said, ‘The new look Red […]
Sales Director at Castleford based Pelican Engineering, Ken Grindrod, has retired. He worked for the company, which supplies the Yutong coach range amongst other CVs, for 38 years. Taking over his responsibilities will be Bob Elliot, who has worked alongside Ken for over 32 years. Ken’s first real introduction to the coach sales world came […]
Go North East has invested over £500,000 in five new Optare Solos for its rural services in Hexham and West Northumberland. The buses feature 29 leather seats with seatbelts and offer free Wi-Fi. They will be used six days a week from early morning until early evening on the operator’s Tynedale Links services. Working in […]
100 years of service of the East Kent Road Car Company was marked at the annual South East Bus Festival and heritage transport show held at the Kent Showground at Detling. The sixth annual event attracted over 5,000 visitors. To mark the occasion, MD of East Kent’s successor company, Stagecoach South East, Philip Norwell, unveiled […]
Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL) has said it has over 40 orders in the pipeline for its recently launched 12.8m Plaxton Panther Volvo B8R Exec. One of the first off the production line has joined the fleet of Birmingham based Aziz Coach Service Ltd. It has a DVD player, monitor systems, gangway lighting and 59 Brusa […]