Bus News
Making Tax Simpler
Paul Morton, Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification, explains how the Government body is working to make the lives of small businesses that bit easier – and welcomes your feedback For many years, […]
Features
Business
40 Years of Coach & Bus Week: Hunts Coaches and Keith Payne of Ebdons Tours
With CBW turning 40 this year, we decided to put the spotlight on our readers – individuals and businesses alike – to find out how the industry has changed in the four decades we’ve been […]
Bus News
Forging on to bigger things
Johnsons Coach and Bus may have been established for 109 years, but it’s not going to be standing still anytime soon. Richard, Business Development Manager and a fourth generation Johnson, is determined to keep driving […]
Coach News
Festive inequality
Christmas markets may be attractive for the customer, but they can also raise the blood pressure of even the most laid-back coach operator. As planning for this year’s events gets under way, coach tourism specialist […]
Bus News
DalesBus across the Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places in the UK. It’s also home to the ever-expanding DalesBus service, planned in conjunction with walkers and other users of the National Park. John […]
Bus News
The coach operator who was all at sea – or who wished he was!
Alan Payling meets a retired coach operator who still wants to get out on the road behind the wheel, behind a microphone or, even better, to set sail into the wide blue yonder so he […]
Bus News
Municipalisation: the way forward, or back to never-never land?
With Labour’s plans to municipalise local bus services becoming a growing topic of conversation – both inside and outside the industry – Phil Tonks argues that a partnership between both private and public sectors is […]
Bus News
I wanted to work on the railway…
Tim Roberts’ time in the industry spans more than half a century – a rare achievement. When CBW’s predecessor, Coachmart was founded in 1978 he’d already been working for United Counties for more than a […]
Bus News
Clean up your act
The pressure on bus and coach operators to cut exhaust emissions is unrelenting. So how should they go about it? John Lewis considers the options MAN is European market leader so far as gas buses […]
Coach News
Volvo’s new integral flagship
After a launch following seven years of development, Jonathan Taylor tests Volvo’s new 9900 premium coach It is many years since I last travelled (as a teenager) to Gothenburg. But here I am, in Volvo’s […]
