Features
Tyre changes
Commercial vehicles have been exempted from 10-year tyre age restrictions. A circular sent to testers from the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) includes a category headed: ‘Using old tyres on Historic Vehicles.’
Last Stop
Build your own Setra
Aldershot-based independent operator Coachpoint is rightly proud of its Setra S250 Special, A17 CPX – but now it has a miniature Lego version to go with it! As seen below in this image posted on […]
Last Stop
Are you wheely good?
In this week’s Industry Heritage, we used a picture of a wheel from a classic bus. But how many readers can identify the bus it is attached to? Here’s a (slightly!) wider angle view for […]
Bus News
First Bus to trial new Arrival bus
Arrival’s zero-emission bus is to undergo route trials in the UK from autumn this year Electric vehicle manufacturer Arrival, announced on Monday that it will begin trials of its zero-emission bus with First Bus. The […]
Bus News
McGill’s to go battery electric with substantial order from Pelican Yutong
McGill’s, the largest independently-owned bus operator in the UK, has placed a substantial EV bus order with Pelican Yutong. The vehicle order of 22 Yutong E12 battery electric buses fitted with 422kWh batteries will be […]
Coach News
New specification joins the Tourismo range
Daimler has announced a new evolution of its Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coach range with the introduction of a new specification. Responding to the changing landscape of the coach industry, EvoBus has reacted by launching an entry-level […]
Bus News
Transdev tests Yutong electric bus in Harrogate
Pelican Bus and Coach has teamed up with Go North East to loan a Yutong E10 to Transdev-owned The Harrogate Bus Company for a trial A Yutong battery-powered electric bus has been brought in for […]
Coach News
Temsa partners with Alliance Transport Technologies
Temsa has strengthened its position in the UK market thanks to a new partnership with Alliance Transport Technologies. The remanufacturer and emission control specialist has been serving the transport industry since 1993. In 2017, Alliance […]
Coach News
2021 Coach Rally cancelled
This year’s UK Coach Rally in Blackpool, due to take place on 10 and 11 April, has been cancelled, organisers Coach Displays Ltd have announced. The organisers said in a statement: “It is with deep […]
Bus News
Stagecoach East celebrates one year of electric buses in Cambridge
A joint venture between Stagecoach and the Greater Cambridge Partnership has seen the first two electric buses in the city reach one of year of zero-emission operation Cambridge’s first electric buses have driven over 50,000 […]
