Current Stagecoach West MD, Ian Manning, will retire on 31 May 2014. Rupert Cox, currently Acting Operations Director, will become MD on 1 June 2014. Rupert began his career in the bus industry while at University, working in the schedules office at Wilts & Dorset Buses in Poole. He joined Stagecoach on the company’s Graduate […]
After having what it described as the most extensive product renewal in its history in 2013, Volvo Group’s net sales declined 9% in the year to £25.8bn/SEK272.6bn (2012: £28.4m/SEK299.8bn). The company’s operating income amounted to £0.7bn/SEK7.9bn (2012: £1.9bnSEK19.6bn). Its product renewal package put pressures on its earnings, according to a statement on its figures. The […]
Staged at the modern Bangor depot on the Llandygai Industrial Estate, which was built eight years ago, the launch saw Area Managing Director for Arriva Buses Wales, Michael Morton, introduce the vehicles to an invited audience, with his speech repeated in Welsh by Bangor Depot General Manager, Dafydd Williams. His guests included: the Lord Mayor […]
So, what of today? How does the modern operator, faced with the legacy of the recession and an ageing fleet, maybe premises in need of renovation or workshops in need of re-equipping, go about asking for and finding a source for funding? The answer seems to lie in the art of planning a little way […]
With very limited exceptions, anyone who holds a standard PSV operator’s licence is required to satisfy the requirement of professional competence. At its most basic, this means that the operator himself has, or must employ someone who has, the relevant Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC). That person then acts as the Transport Manager (TM) nominated […]
Pelican Engineering, based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, is a company that has been in business for 95 years and has been making a profit for 95 years. It still has the same title and is still run by the same family. As Sales Director, Ken Grindrod points out, ‘Not many are in the same position […]
Kinchbus has been praised by Member of Parliament for Loughborough, Nicky Morgan MP, for its Freeride Wednesday promotion. The operator is offering free travel into Loughborough between 10.00 and 11.00 on Wednesdays this month. The initiative follows Freeride Sunday, a similar campaign by sister company trentbarton this past January, which saw an increase of around […]
From 5 April 2014, all UK workplaces must display a new and updated Health & Safety Law poster. However, workplace equipment supplier Slingsby, claims many are unaware of the new legislation. The company supplies more than 35,000 workplace products across all industries and was one of the first to start selling the new poster in […]