Coach News

Plaxton’s enhanced elite

Gareth Evans test drives a corporate specification 14m Plaxton Elite-bodied Volvo B11R for Northampton-based Country Lion – Alexander Dennis’ premium coach, which has recently benefitted from a minor re-style Eight years after it was first […]

Face-to-Face Interviews

Next stop: Africa

Since 2010 National Express’ employees have been travelling to sub-Saharan Africa to deliver vital training as part of Transaid and its partners’ essential life-saving work. Rebecca Wong finds out from the company’s two latest secondees […]

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Features

Romance at Rosso

Rossendale Transport Ltd has been serving the Borough of Rossendale for many years and the company can trace its history back to 1907. Love must be in the air because this bus operator is crammed […]

Environment

Don’t Let Diesels Die

2017 is likely to see the coach and bus industry face an increasingly stiff battle for survival, not only in the face of rising costs, but, more significantly, a rising tide of concern over the […]

Features

Harnessing training and technology

Scania (Great Britain) Training Centre near Loughborough might be tucked away in the Leicestershire countryside, but the important part it plays in the Swedish manufacturer’s service delivery nationally shouldn’t be underestimated. It’s an impressively well-equipped […]

Features

The Lakes Connection 555

Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire have invested £2.5m on new buses on this high-profile route, the second time in less than five years. David Barrow takes a long ride to see what they have to […]