GERMANY Daimler AG and AKKA Technologies S.A. will now jointly manage MBtech Group – a prominent international engineering and consulting company based in Sindelfingen. The move was agreed by both partners on Wednesday (December 7). […]
COLUMBIA Volvo Bus Latin America has sold 688 bus chassis to Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá. The deal, which includes chassis for conventional buses as well as articulated and biarticulated buses, is the company’s largest ever […]
USA Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has the first batch of its 95 new Motor Coach Industries (MCI) Commuter Coaches, fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG). They will be used on LADOT’s Commuter Express […]
A paper, published by cities minister Greg Clark last week, contains a proposal pointing at devolving the allocation of Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) funding to local authorities. The paper aims to help cities “exercise […]
Norman Baker congratulated for listening to “a grateful bus industry” Firstgroup has already started discussions with its local authority partners, following the announcement of £50m Better Bus Areas (BBA) fund for local authority and operator […]
Plans for reporting mechanism for dangerous wheels Mike Penning MP, parliamentary under-secretary of state for transport, has agreed to meet industry experts early next year to establish a reporting mechanism for companies to provide evidence […]
Loss making rail division dampens figures, but operator says incoming subsidies will solve this in the second half of the year On Thursday (December 8) Stagecoach released its interim results for the six months ending […]
Belgian coach builder boosted by Stagecoach order Stagecoach Group last week announced a £44m investment in a fleet of 106 new double-decker coaches for its budget coach service megabus.com – most bound for North America […]
Motts Leisure Ltd, the holiday arm of Aylesbury-based Motts Coaches, has taken over the business of Clacton-on-Sea’s Crusader Holidays, which went into administration on December 1 – as reported in last week’s issue. Buckinghamshire-based Motts, […]
Driver of first and last bendy bus sees the Citaro artics bow out Matthew Wooll, revenue and marketing manager at First Berkshire, drove the last ever bendy bus service in London on its 207 operation, […]
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