Coach News
Obituary: Roger Woollon
Roger Woollon of Woollons of Heathrow and AWC passed away in the early hours of Friday, 6 July 2018. Roger started Woollons in 1974 as a car hire business and gradually transitioned into coach operating […]
News
Bus News
TfL backs Look Up campaign
Transport for London (TfL) has announced its support for the Look Up campaign, which asks public transport users to ‘look up’ to see whether there is anyone else around who is in greater need of […]
Bus News
Flintshire Council to replace buses with minibuses on some services
Flintshire County Council has voted in favour of reducing commercial bus operator funding, leaving just nine routes in the area which will be supported by public funding. Services in certain rural areas will be replaced […]
Business
Traffic Commissioner launches consultation on revised guidance
Responses to the amendments are welcomed The Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain, Richard Turfitt, has launched a consultation on proposed changes to the Statutory Documents. These publications offer guidance on how traffic commissioners apply […]
Coach News
Saracens and Zeelo launch express coach services
Saracens has announced that it will work with on-demand coach service Zeelo to bring fans a new way to travel to Allianz Park. Zeelo uses an AI powered-platform called RINA to understand where there are […]
Bus News
Operator loses appeal against driver who drove into flood water
Bluebird Buses Limited, which fired one of its employees after he drove into a patch of flooded road, has lost an appeal to overturn a judgement of unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal. According to People […]
Minibuses
DfT releases summary of consultation on section 19 and 22
DfT received 494 responses to the consultation The Department for Transport (DfT) has released its interim summary of responses for the consultation of section 19 and 22 of The Tranport Act 1985. The DfT received […]
Minibuses
FACT report identifies £300k owed to local councils
Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) has said it is taking the findings of an independent report into community transport issues extremely seriously and has already drawn up and delivered a detailed improvement plan in response. The […]
Business
Horseman invests in 12 new Plaxton coaches
Horseman Coaches has taken delivery of two Plaxton Leopards and placed an order for 10 Plaxton Panther coaches which will be delivered during November and December this year. The fleet introductions and new orders represent […]
Bus News
Stagecoach announces autonomous Enviro200 trial
The 12m single-decker is being prepared at ADL’s Guildford site and is due to be introduced by the end of the year
