Scania’s standard full two year repair and maintenance agreement has led to the delivery of a 12.9m Scania Irizar i6 coach for Thetford based Coach Services Ltd. Based on the Euro5 Scania K400 EB6x2*4 rear steer chassis, the coach has 53 seats with three-point seat belts, seat back tables, a centre sunken toilet, a drinks […]
Turkey has become a key manufacturing location for the European market and many others beyond, but it isn’t only the European brands that have bus and coach building facilities there. Turkey’s indigenous bus manufacturing industry is both well established and strong and strongest among these companies, particularly in the bus market, is Otokar. In 2013, […]
A new operator has started running its first service in Norfolk. Lynx has been set up by a small group of local people who have many years experience of running bus services in the county. Its first route is operating between King’s Lynn and Hunstanton via Dersingham, Snettisham and Heacham. Further developments are due to […]
Isle of Wight bus operator, Go-Ahead owned Southern Vectis, has teamed up with Hovertravel and National Express. The alliance is set to offer passengers all-in-one tickets to travel from the Island to destinations across the UK. Passengers will have the opportunity to buy tickets in towns across the island and journey to Ryde by bus, […]
Newport Transport has appointed Morgan Stevens as its new Operations Director. The 29 year old was appointed to the company in April 2010 in an inspector role. He is now in charge of over almost 100 buses and 170 drivers running the operation’s 45 plus services. Before joining the municipal operator he had no previous […]
In an effort to enhance its green credentials, Stagecoach Group has launched a new sustainability strategy. It is aimed at cutting carbon emissions, reducing water consumption and improving recycling at its transport operations in the UK, mainland Europe and North America. The operator’s new five year strategy, ‘Shared responsibility, shared future’, produced in partnership with […]
It wasn’t exactly an epic journey for most of the bus press last week as Cummins chose to stage a press conference at the Peterborough headquarters of Cummins Generator Technologies rather than at its Darlington engine plant. Under the ‘Euro6 and beyond’ banner, they examined Euro6 in some detail, bandying more acronyms than you could […]
Once it was an undreamed of possibility, but Wi-Fi internet connection onboard buses and coaches is now becoming common. Not only are new vehicles being fitted with routers to enable on-bus internet exploration, but older vehicles are being retrofitted with the equipment. As its popularity grows and passengers become even more accustomed to it, so […]