FirstGroup has donated around £80,000 of advertising space to its UK Charity of Choice, Macmillan Cancer Support. Over 3,100 of First’s 6,500 strong bus fleet across the UK will feature interior adverts supporting the cause’s Not Alone campaign. FirstGroup’s CSR and Community Manager, Katie Smart, said, ‘We hope our partnership with Macmillan and especially the […]
First Aberdeen is to freeze the majority of its fares in 2014 and reduce in price its Adult Day tickets, which it claims is a result of the increasing numbers of customers travelling on its services. The only fare to increase is Stage 3-5 of the Adult Single fare. This is set to be implemented […]
Go-Ahead has used Recite software to help make accessing its website content easier for people with dyslexia, sight problems or those that do not use English as a first language. The programme includes text to speech functionality, translation of text into 52 languages and can make the font larger, allowing users to personalise the site […]
Better quotations Demonstrating his new quotations system, James said it was all intended to improve the customer experience and increase business for clients signed up to the site. Previously, quotations e-mailed to users of the website only included details of the job being quoted for (destination, date, start location, etc), along with the price, a […]
The man you know Although his company may be a newcomer on the market, Steve is an old hand at his trade, with many reading this no doubt familiar with his name and work. He has been involved with PCV glazing repair and replacement since the start of his career in 1986. Starting as a […]
CEO of Staf Cars and now also of Solmar Tours is Paul Cremers. His father, Staf Cremers, had started his own coach operation in 1952. Staf died two years ago but the company he founded continues to thrive, turning over €9.3m (£7.67m) from coach hire in 2013. It now operates 85 coaches, 20 of them […]
Nu-Track has been building buses, predominantly midi buses, in Antrim for 23 years, having originally been set up in 1991 by Robert McMullan, a former Robert Wright and Son Coachworks employee. It has specialised in producing accessible coachbuilt midibuses on the Mercedes-Benz Vario chassis. Its principal customers are the hugely powerful Library and Education Boards […]
Bus and Coach Buyer’s David Cole recently visited the company’s headquarters in the North Worcestershire countryside to meet the team and find out more about the services and systems on offer. History When privatisation of the National Bus Company (NBC) operating companies began in the mid 1980s, Edward Morris was Group Internal Auditor for NBC […]