Bus News
Alexander Dennis sold to NFI Group
Canadian firm, which produces New Flyer and ARBOC buses alongside MCI coaches, acquires ADL for £320m. The ADL brand will be retained
Month: May 2019
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Whilst many parts of the UK have seen their bendy buses banished to a disused airfield, Cornwall still has a need to retain them. First Kernow operate the Eden Project Park & Ride service using […]
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Tanya Verity took this fine view of a Maynes Coaches of Buckie Temsa MD9 midi coach at beautiful Skibo Castle, which is west of Dornoch in Sutherland. The building is operated as The Carnegie Club […]
Coach Driver Profile
Presentation, presentation, presentation…
Alan Payling meets up with with the owners of Jay & Kay Coach Tours and finds out about their award-winning ways of doing business
Buses
Beeline for Beeline
Brothers Mark and Andy Hayball built Beeline of Warminster into a 38-vehicle operation primarily on contract work, a strategy they’ve pursued successfully for several decades as they explain to Andy Izatt
Features
MAN TGE 17-seater on test
The MAN TGE minibus has now arrived. Richard Sharman visited Whaley Bridge-based Minibus Options to test drive a converted TGE and find out what the new product has to offer
Buses
Ensuring safety
Winning a major CCTV contract from one of Britain’s biggest bus operators in the teeth of significant competition is quite a coup for any business. However this is what CCTV specialist SURE24 achieved in October […]
Features
Dealing with HMRC penalties
Adam Bernstein explains the ins and outs of HMRC penalties – and how to respond to them
Buses
Mass people movement at the core of SPS success
A large transport operation has quietly been working away since 2016 in Somerset, using anonymous white buses and coaches to transfer workers to the Hinkley Point C construction site. Richard Sharman takes a look at […]
Coaches
Lodge increases operational Bedford fleet
Restoration of Lodge’s of High Easter’s rare Burlingham-bodied Bedford OB is now complete reports Nick Larkin
