Golden Boy Coaches of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire has become the first coach operator to achieve CPT’s new and professionally recognised Workshop Accreditation. The certificate was designed and launched in 2014 by CPT’s Engineering Committee with support from the Traffic Commissioners. It assesses bus and coach operators’ workshops, as well as dealer workshops, against a series of […]
Chelsea FC players, Jacob Maddox, Martell Taylor-Crossdale and Miro Muheim, attended the launch of the Chatterbus, one of Surrey’s first community bus services. It will run daily between Cobham and Weybridge. Most of the funding to run the bus was provided by the football club and Surrey County Council while Elmbridge Borough Council, care firm […]
Kettering based Lawmans Coaches has taken delivery of two new Volvo B11R Euro6 coaches with Jonckheere bodywork. Although they have a number of Volvos in their fleet, this is the first time they have purchased any with Jonckheere bodies. The new coaches feature TV screens, DVD player, hot drink servery, fridge and toilet as well […]
Skills Motor Coaches Ltd has taken delivery of a VDL Futura 139.440 MX Euro6 tri-axle 14m luxury coach to Leger ‘Luxuria’ specifications. It is fitted with 31 moquette/leather Captain seats, each with a personal Funtoro entertainment system including digital TV screen, front camera view, lap top connection, headphones, leather magazine pockets, calf supports and tables. […]
In past years MAN’s bus division has usually held its Bus Days, a chance to meet up with operators and members of the press and display its wares, at the Bus Forum at its headquarters in Munich. This year, despite the logistical challenge it represented, it chose to stage the event in the Turkish capital […]
Leicestershire operator, Roberts Coaches, has received two Mercedes-Benz Tourismo Ms. Their power is provided by Mercedes-Benz OM 470 Euro6 engines paired with six-speed ZF Ecolife automatic transmissions. They are to Touring Plus specification, with 49 seats in Luxline upholstery, a toilet, rear mounted reversing cameras, a Boon kitchen and overhead passenger controls with reading lamps, […]
Plain clothes police from the West Midlands Safer Travel team will be targeting pickpockets and their potential victims across the local public transport network this spring. A key target for the officers will be those passengers who leave themselves vulnerable to becoming a victim. After identifying themselves to the passenger, officers will explain why they […]
Shearings Group carried a record 1.1m (+2%) passengers last year, which it attributed to continuing demand from its over 50s market. Total revenues increased 3%, breaking through the £200m mark for the first time in its 100 year history (2014: £200.8m; 2013: £195m). Improved trading, together with margin improvements, operating cost reductions and a restructuring […]