Weardale Travel has taken delivery of a Van Hool TDX25 Astromega. The coach is powered by a DAF 510hp engine matched to a ZF AS-Tronic gearbox. Built to a high specification, the 13m vehicle has a tow bar, a ski box, a front Hanover display and provision to carry one wheelchair passenger. This is the […]
Gibbons Coaches has taken delivery of a Setra ComfortClass 416 GT-HD. The vehicle has 48 Voyage Supreme seats with a half-leather, half-fabric combination. It is powered by a Mercedes-Benz OM 457 LA 315kW Euro5 engine coupled to a Mercedes-Benz Go-240-8 eight speed PowerShift gearbox. A range of safety systems are installed, including Traction Control with […]
Quicker, easier and less stress Gill explained that, when Acas receives notification that an employee is thinking about a tribunal claim, it will try to resolve the dispute quickly and cost effectively under the new scheme. She said tribunals can be costly and time consuming, not to mention stressful. The introduction of this legislation change […]
Road Tech Derek Beevor, MD of Road Tech observes that all telematics systems have the ‘dot on a map showing where their vehicle is, that’s not new, that’s not exciting anymore’. He believes one of the main drivers behind telematics now is being able to reduce fuel consumption and says the best way to do […]
The basis of the operation is extremely simple. The Connections team approaches businesses with a requirement for coach hire and offers its vast experience in the field in managing bookings and procuring the services of operators to carry those bookings out. It is the same team that goes out and wins bookings for The Kings […]
Scania is considering Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft’s public takeover offer to the shareholders in Scania. The deal would see all of their shares in Scania tendered to Volkswagen (VW) for a cash consideration of £18.34/SEK200 per share. VW is already a key stakeholder in the Swedish CV manufacturer, owning 62.6%. VW recently reported achieving an operating profit […]
What the Touring did have, and I believe this is something which accounts in some measure for its success, is style. It is a great looking vehicle and it has a wow factor. Even now, 12 years after Esker introduced it at the Dublin Show in 2002, the Mark 1 Touring still has a presence […]
Stagecoach Midlands has completed its £5.6m investment in 37 new single deckers operated out of its Northampton depot. The latest batch of nine new ADL Enviro200s will be used on Daventry’s main bus network comprising routes D1/D2 (The Grange Estate, Danetre Hospital and Southbrook to Daventry town centre and Northampton) and D3 (Lang Farm, Ashby […]