Entries are now being sought for the 2014 UK Bus Awards. The competition consists of 20 awards. This year’s event will see a number of changes, including the renaming of the Eureka! Award to the Marketing Initiative of the Year Award and the Marketing Excellence Award becoming the Award for Sustained Marketing Excellence. Furthermore, there […]
BusyBus MD, Peter Rosenfeld’s WebTicketManager online ticketing platform has been chosen by the Football Association (FA) as its digital partner for the Woman’s Super League (WSL). The system will provide all 18 WSL websites with a common booking system. The ticketing solution enables every other user of it to cross-sell and up-sell tickets, not only […]
42 Drivers, engineers and managers with a cumulative total of 1,390 years of service attended Arriva Yorkshire’s latest Long Service Awards Presentation Dinner. Five staff were recognised for notching up 45 years. The employees from depots in Wakefield, Castleford, Selby, Heckmondwike and Dewsbury were presented with a commemorative certificate and badge, along with a gift […]
West Midlands transport authority, Centro, has pledged to help keep electric buses in Coventry following claims they are set to leave the city. It said it would work with Travel de Courcey to find an alternative use for them once their use on the city’s Park and Ride South route comes to an end later […]
Southampton based Coliseum Coaches has seen ‘unprecedented demand’ for its trips to the Channel Islands. An extra coach has had to be laid on to deal with the numbers of people wanting to travel to Guernsey, after tickets for the day trip sold out just a week after the new Summer Day Excursions 2014 brochure […]
It seems incredible to me that this week’s edition marks 25 years since we started Bus & Coach Buyer; it doesn’t feel anything like that long. Sitting down to write an editorial feature on the anniversary was a reminder to me of how much the industry has changed in the intervening period as well as […]
Stagecoach has expanded the use of its GreenRoad driver feedback and fleet management system to its entire fleet as it goes live in nearly 1,200 buses in London. This means the operator’s 3,500 drivers in the capital are now using the technology as part of its EcoDriver scheme. Added to drivers at 116 depots nationwide, […]
Irizar UK has appointed Chris Pike as Aftersales Manager. For 20 years, Chris has been Aftersales Manager for Moseley in the South and also has experience in operations, having run his own small coach company early in his career. Commercial Director, Steve O’Neill, said, ‘Chris’s knowledge of the DAF engines which Irizar integrals have beneath […]