However, the year-to-date figure remains up 4.1%. SMMT Chief Executive, Mike Hawes, said, ‘After a glut of new bus and coach registrations in April, the sector performed more modestly in May, down 3.3%. While the purpose built sector suffered a 27.7% reduction versus May 2013, converted bus registrations fared better with 31.9% growth. The positive […]

The terms of the deal were undisclosed. The transaction provides an exit for private equity firm 3i, which originally backed the merger of the business with Wallace Arnold in 2005, and Indigo Capital LLP. As part of the deal, the Group has also renewed its existing banking facilities with Lloyds Bank for a further two […]

Its service was compared with over 100 city bus tours worldwide, across almost every continent. The award winner was announced at the organisation’s annual conference, which this year took place in Malaga, Spain. The Bath tours are operated by RATP Dev subsidiary Bath Bus Company, whose other operations include tours of Cardiff, Eastbourne and Windsor. […]

  ‘Breaching the bastion’ Eddie is spearheading a push into the bus and coach market, which is one Dhollandia is familiar with, especially in mainland Europe. Units from the range of hydraulic tail lifts are commonly used on PCVs on the Continent, considerably more so than they are in the UK. ‘Great Britain is a […]

‘Transport for a Changing World’ was the theme of the 2014 ITF meeting, the seventh annual summit to be held at the Leipzig conference centre in Germany. In a complex three-day programme, ministers, participants and press from around the world considered topics across the whole transport agenda from cycling to air and maritime activity. There […]

First West of England is introducing cycle safety technology on three of its buses operating along the busy Gloucester Road route in Bristol as part of an ongoing trial funded by four West of England local authorities which has also involved Wessex Bus. The CycleEye technology has been developed by Bristol engineering company Fusion Processing […]

Andrew Pulham, MD of Pulham’s Coaches of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire, has traditionally had a virtually 100% Volvo fleet and anticipates continuing to buy Volvo in future, but on 8 April last year he took delivery of a two-axle Tourismo. He has never operated a Setra, ‘because they always seemed expensive compared with […]

Buses are amongst the vehicles to benefit from the new Clean Vehicle Technology Fund announced by Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer. Local authorities and other public bodies will be able to apply for a share of £5 million from the Fund to make improvements to local fleets to reduce pollution. The money is available for vehicles […]