First Bus has announced the appointment of Adrian Jones as Operations Director. Adrian will be responsible for driving improvements in operational and safety performance across its portfolio of bus businesses. He has extensive operational experience having formerly been MD of First’s London business for six years between 2007 and 2013 and more recently MD of […]
This February saw Martin and Liz Sherratt, proprietors of the Stafford Bus Centre, open for business at new premises of their own. The £500,000 investment realises an ambition they have held since they initially started trading. When they first moved to the rented Cotes Heath site that was their base for the previous 15 years, […]
‘There’s just me and just one bus and that’s the way it’s going to stay. I’m happy at this size,’ said Mike Woodhouse, owner and Transport Manager of M&J Minibus. We usually cover considerably larger operations in B&CB, but there are plenty of our readers up and down the country that are, like Mike, running […]
Opportunities to publicly highlight the hard work put in by coach operators and their staff are few and far between which is why the UK Coach Awards are such a worthwhile feature of the annual coaching calendar. Changes in recent years have moved the emphasis more towards the contribution of people and in a people […]
Coach & Bus Live (C&BL) 2015’s Accessibility Zone (Accessible Solutions by Rescroft) has received support from the Community Transport Association (CTA) and Association of Transport Coordinating Officers (ATCO). The CTA will be inviting its members to a hosted seminar at the trade show taking place on 30 September and 1 October at the NEC Birmingham. […]
National Express Group Plc has appointed Matthew Crummack as an independent Non-Executive Director with effect from 6 May 2015. Matthew is Deputy CEO and Chief Integration Officer of Bravofly Rumbo Group (SWX:BRG), incorporating lastminute.com, the online travel and leisure retailer. Until this company’s acquisition by BRG in March 2015, Mr Crummack, in his position as […]
Distinctive Systems has launched Coach Hire Exchange (CHX), an entirely free of charge cloud-based passenger recovery and job exchange service for coach and minibus operators. CHX is designed to help operators find immediate assistance in the event of a breakdown, or any other situation where passengers need to be picked up and transported as soon […]
In the first quarter of 2015, Scania’s net sales rose 6% to €22,321m/£15,875.17m (Q1 2014: €21,126/£15,119.91m). Order bookings in buses and coaches during the first quarter amounted to 1,913 (Q1 2014: 1,995) units. In Europe, order bookings in the first quarter improved to 472 units (Q1 2014: 392) with increased order bookings in Great Britain, […]