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Brownrigg’s Coaches of Egremont in Cumbria has added an Iveco Daily with Erener Revolution bodywork to its fleet, supplied by EVM. It has 29 seats that are finished in synthetic leather. Three-point belts, drop-down tables and magazine nets are fitted, along with aisle-side folding armrests. A courier’s position is provided, while the
The decision to revert some roads back to a 30mph speed limit in Wales has been met with support from some quarters of the bus sector. Welsh Transport Secretary Ken Skates confirmed in the Senedd yesterday that the adjustment of roads away from the default 20mph limit would begin in September. The
Volvo coach, bus and truck dealership group Thomas Hardie Commercials in North West England and North Wales has invested in a Josam Cam-aligner, which will allow faster and more accurate wheel alignment on those vehicles. The equipment has been installed into one of Thomas Hardie’s service vans, which will allow the service
An app for submission of passenger information intended to mitigate some of the pain of crossing into the EU once the Schengen area Entry/Exit System (EES) is in place will not be ready in time for that controversial scheme, the boss of Eurostar has told the BBC. How true that proves to
East Yorkshire Buses has branched into North Yorkshire with seven routes which are operating as the North Riding brand. The Go-Ahead subsidiary is collaborating with North Yorkshire Council to replace services previous run by Reliance Buses and York and Country Buses. Among the North Riding fleet will be two new buses. The
Pauls Coaches is recruiting for an Operations/Compliance Manager to be based on the Staffordshire/Cheshire Border. Full time Operations/Compliance Manager for our depot based on the Staffordshire/Cheshire Border. Your duties would include: - Driver management/compliance with tru-tac analysis including walkaround checks. Working with workshop for planned maintenance/MOT/Defects scheduling. Vehicle & Driver scheduling and
Coach Options of Middleton has added a Neoplan Tourliner to its fleet, supplied by MAN Truck and Bus. The P20 model is the first of two Tourliners for the Greater Manchester business. It has 55 Kiel Avance X seats with three-point belts, along with USB charging points and a toilet. PSVAR compliance
Welcome back to Switched On, a series of articles that we are writing to help operators to understand the best ways to drive down the lifetime costs of electric coach and bus operations. In our first article, we set out the key drivers of total cost of ownership (TCO). Today, we are
Xplore Dundee is hosting 'The Big Bus Show', a free charity open day event, to raise money for Dundee Bairns, a children's charity that helps children living in poverty in the city. The open day will take place on East Dock Street depot on Saturday 4 May from 1100hrs and will educate
McGill’s Bus Group has furthered its attack on bus service franchising plans by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) by referencing what it claims is a vast understatement of the costs attached to that overhaul and ongoing service delivery method. Owners James and Sandy Easdale – already fierce critics of reregulation – have
Work to turn around the National Express Transport Solutions (NXTS) private hire business is delivering “positive early results” but further rationalisation of that undertaking is not out of the question, parent Mobico Group has said. The ongoing overhaul forms part of a wider restructuring of the National Express coach and bus business
Vehicles – including coaches – used on rail replacement work that meets the definition of a local service will be required to satisfy the Public Service Vehicles (Accessible Information) Regulations (AIR) unless the service concerned meets the long-distance exemption within that legislation, transport legal experts have agreed. A local service is defined
Wrightbus has taken a further order from Germany for its Kite Hydroliner hydrogen fuel cell-electric single-decker, calling for 46 examples to go to Cottbusverkehr in the eastern city of Cottbus. The manufacturer has already recorded sales of the same vehicle type to Regionalverkehr Koln in Cologne for up to 60, Saarbahn in
Stagecoach Manchester has purchased three sets of Stertil Koni ST1085FWA wireless mobile column lifts for its newly added depot at Queens Road, which it took on from Go North West in March as part of the second tranche of bus franchising in Greater Manchester. The lifts are complemented by 12 screw-threaded axle
Coach industry investor REL Capital has added three more operators to its portfolio in Lewis Coaches of London, Advance Minibuses of Rayleigh, and Wickford-based KB Coaches. All three are retirement sales. REL Capital Director Andy Scott says that two further purchases by the growth-hungry group are in hand for the coming months.
