East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) Group has held its annual Long Service Awards Dinner at Tickton Grange Hotel, near Beverley, East Yorkshire. The event recognised a total of 565 years of service by employees, including three 25 year recipients from the Group subsidiary company Finglands Coachways in Manchester. This included the Group Administration Manager, Paul […]
First Dorset has unveiled six new Wrightbus Streetlites that will operate on its Service 2 between Weymouth and Littlemoor. The buses are fitted with leather seats, free Wi-Fi, audio-visual next stop announcements, real time information and CCTV. Each has 37 seats and space for 33 standing passengers as well as for child buggies and wheelchairs. […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is predicting significant benefits to customers on its popular Turquoise Line 77 as a result of the road changes brought about by the recent completion of Aspley Lane junction in Nottingham. In September, NCT enhanced its Turquoise 77 service to run from every six minutes during daytime, making it one of […]
First has launched the new look ‘Safe Journey Card’, designed to help older people use buses more easily. The Safe Journey card was originally unveiled in 2009, giving the elderly a way of asking for extra assistance on the bus. It was developed in association with, and in response to, a charity’s awareness day, which […]
CPT UK has launched a scheme to help passengers with hidden disabilities. Journey Assistant Cards will be made available to passengers via local bus operators following discussion with local disability groups and individual passengers. They indicate that the passenger requires specific assistance. They were developed in consultation with disability groups across the UK and are […]
In the six months ending 31 October 2013, Stagecoach Group’s revenue rose to £1,473.9m (2012: £1,403.3m). During the period, the operating profit amounted to £126.5m (2012: £125.1m). In its UK Bus (regional operations), revenue increased 3.3% to £504.3m (2012: £488.3m) and operating profit was at £76.9m (2012: £76.8m) a 0.1% rise. The like-for-like revenue growth […]
SJ: Volvo was once heavily engineering led. How to you see the balance of the decision making within Volvo today? HA: It’s hard for me coming from the outside. At this point UK MD of Volvo Bus, Nick Page, who was with us added, ‘I’ll give you an example of where I think it has […]
Safra is a long-established company, based in Albi, near Toulouse. It has extensive facilities to repair and refurbish buses, trams and rail vehicles. Two year ago, Safra launched the Businova hybrid vehicle that drew its power from three sources, namely an electric motor, a hydraulic motor and a combustion engine. Their vehicle at RNTP had […]