Coach Driver Profile
Love in a coach park
Alan Payling meets up with a couple of tour drivers who, having fallen in love after meeting in a coach park, got married and then carried on touring. Did they live happily ever after?
Coaches
Coaches
The end for turkey and tinsel?
Stuart Render investigates whether the well-known ‘Turkey and Tinsel’ tour format still does enough to attract bookings
Coach Driver Profile
Dan’s Coach Travel: A Suffolk gentleman
New coach operations are rare these days, but, still in his mid-20s, Dan Trent started his just last year. He has taken a very personal approach to developing his new venture, which is already being […]
Buses
Event report: Transport Ticketing 2019
One of the themes of this year’s Transport Ticketing Global conference was mobile ticketing. Are traditional tickets – and ticket machines – soon to be a thing of the past? Peter Jackson reports from day […]
Buses
Happy days with a crash box
Alan Payling shares some fond memories of vehicles that he’s driven that all had to be handled with great care and skill – and reveals how he missed out on being a film star
Buses
A more proactive CPT
At the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) Annual Dinner on 31 January 2019, Martin Dean gave his second speech as CPT President after agreeing to continue in the role for a second term. CPT Restructure […]
Coaches
Bespoke Beulas
Sitting squarely in the mid-market, the Beulas Cygnus has become a firm favourite with many operators. The attractive combination of a bespoke specification and the reliability of its DAF engine is prompting operators to take […]
Buses
Step off the gas: Alternative fuel
Compressed natural gas and electric power are making inroads into the bus market, but what is there in the way of alternative fuel for coaches? Richard Simpson finds out An unfortunate consequence of the Dieselgate […]
Catering for Coaches
Breathtaking Bath
Angela Youngman investigates the city of Bath to see what it can offer coach operators and their passengers As the only city in the UK that is a UNESCO World Heritage site living museum, it […]
Buses
Rural ramblings
David Bell visited Shropshire and North Wales on several occasions in the mid 1970s, a time when local operators – and there were plenty of them then – could field a rich variety of vehicles. […]
