Coach News
Oxford Bus Company update coach displays for the airline
Oxford Bus Company has updated its displays for ‘the airline’ coach service. Instead of a route number, the airline coaches will use LHR for Heathrow and LGW for Gatwick.
Coach News
Bakers Dolphin gains 100% audit
Bakers Dolphin has been awarded a full 100% mark in quality and excellence from an audit carried out by the Guild of British Coach Operators. The guild carries out an independent and rigorous 44-point audit […]
Bus News
London tour bus operator fined by HSE
£10,500 fine and £10,000 costs after bus drops on mechanic The Original London Sightseeing Tour has been fined on grounds of health and safety, after a mechanical engineer suffered serious injuries while working underneath one […]
News
European awareness of emergency 112 number
The International Road Transport Union (IRU) and the European Commission (EC) have joined forces to promote the Single European Emergency Number 112 among bus, coach, taxi and truck operators and their customers across Europe. In […]
Coach News
Johnsons triumph at Business Awards
Johnsons Coaches has been named Service Provider of the Year in the 2012 Midlands Business Awards. The operator won the title at a gala celebration event held on Friday, February 3, at the NEC Hilton […]
News
EYMS adopts fuel-saving additive Envirox for fleet
Additive follows SAFED training and ‘GreenRoad’ on-bus telematics system. East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) has adopted Energenics’ fuel-saving additive Envirox across the whole of its operations in East and North Yorkshire following a successful trial […]
Coach News
New £3m facility for Leon’s Coaches of Stafford
Leon’s of Stafford has purchased a new three-acre site, which is currently being developed into a state of the art facility by builders Espleys of Stafford. The £3m investment, which was announced as this issue […]
Bus News
Touch and Go aboard Network Warrington
Municipally-owned operator Network Warrington has launched its new range of smartcards called Touch&Go! The new plastic cards have an in-built chip, meaning that on boarding the bus, customers just touch the target on the ticket […]
International
Vladivostok takes 50 MAN Lion’s City buses
MAN Truck & Bus gains firm grasp on the Russian public transport market RUSSIA In the course of modernising Vladivostok’s local public transport service, the Russian city’s Administrative Council has ordered 50 MAN city buses. […]
Bus News
Century of Volvo buses in Nordic countries
SWEDEN Volvo Buses is supplying 25 hybrid buses for Göteborgs Spårvägar (Gothenburg Tramways), bringing the number of hybrid buses Volvo has sold to Nordic countries to 100. They are expected the enter service in the […]
