Features

Managing difficult employees

Managing employee performance isn’t difficult if the correct processes are followed – as Lee Ashwood, a Senior Associate in the employment department of law firm Eversheds Sutherland explains Regardless of how much time and resource […]

Bus News

City gas

Gary Mason, Engineering Director at Nottingham City Transport (NCT), provides Jade Smith with an update on the operator’s bio-gas bus project, with the first buses due to enter service on June 5 From summer this […]

Bus News

Citymapper to the test

Having experienced it firsthand, Mark Curran gives his thoughts on Citymapper’s ‘pop up bus service’ which operated a circular route in central London over two days last week The mapping and journey planning website and […]

Bus News

Ready for the future

Jade Smith attends the two day VDL Bus & Coach e-mobility event 2017, held at the Blue Collar hotel in Eindhoven on May 9-10 VDL Bus & Coach held its 2017 e-mobility event in Eindhoven, […]

ALBUM

Customer focus

Gareth Evans reports on the annual conference of ALBUM, the Association of Local Bus Managers, which was hosted by Blackpool Transport last week in the well-known coastal resort The annual ALBUM conference is known for […]

Book reviews

With the benefit of hindsight

Bob Hind charts his long industry career in With the benefit of Hindsight published by Venture Publications, price £20. “In my home town of West Bromwich, the blue/green and cream buses were to impress themselves […]

Book reviews

Bring on the Blacks

Former conductor and driver Desmond Ward is the author of Bring on the Blacks published by SilverWood Books, price £9.99, a work of fiction that helps to retell the story of Bristol Omnibus’ ban on […]