A decade of Go

10/07/2018 WebSupport Features, Operator Profiles
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Over 10 years, Managing Director Austin Blackburn has built Go-Coach Hire into Kent’s largest independent bus operation, but while he’s proud of what has been achieved, he knows that the operating environment is increasingly challenging as he explained to Andy Izatt

Much of Go-Coach’s operating area is rural, as can be seen with this Optare Solo bound for Sevenoaks on route 421. DARREN WALKER

Sevenoaks-based Go-Coach Hire has come a long way in a decade. What has been developed into a £3m-turnover, 50-vehicle operation with 46 routes by Managing Director Austin Blackburn, started with just one coach on a single contract in 2008. […]

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