Tuesday, June 6, 2023

MAN offers operating lease on new Tourliner coaches

An operating lease option for Neoplan Tourliner coaches has been established by MAN Truck and Bus UK and its sister company MAN Financial Services...

Advanced driveline: A Tourliner to treasure

With ZF’s Traxon gearbox and MAN’s EfficientCruise and EfficientRoll, how does the Neoplan Tourliner perform? MAN is among the leaders in technological innovation in coaches....

Welsh Government plan bill to reform bus services

Bill ‘will seek to reverse negative impacts of deregulation’ through enabling public control of bus services The Welsh Government (WG) has announced that it will...

West Mids plan for rapid bus hits next stage

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has published a legal notice of intent for its first two Sprint rapid bus services. The Sprint rapid bus services...

Abellio London uses fingerprint drug testing kit

Abellio London has adopted a new, non-invasive fingerprint-based drug testing solution from Intelligent Fingerprinting. It delivers testing that is quicker and more dignified that the...

Backhouse Jones: Bringing transport law to the masses

Transport law specialist Backhouse Jones can trace its lineage back 200 years. Today, it is focused on using a knowledge base to work with...

IRTE Skills Challenge crowns its winners for 2019

Coach and bus industry comes together to celebrate the top engineers in the sector The winners of this year’s IRTE Skills Challenge were announced at...

Beware an extension of PSVAR in coaches

PSVAR will grow to capture all coaches that are used on in-scope work from 1 January 2020. How will it affect you? Possibly overlooked in...

Westminster Watch: The new bee is buzzing…

As the CPT’s new CEO gets his feet under the table, our man in Westminster is happy to eat his words I’ve recently been quite...

Is it time to tackle buses’ perception problem?

Research conducted by the rail industry has revealed that a perception problem surrounds buses. Is it time to tackle it? Yes, says our Westminster man,...
Average bulk diesel price drops to 20 month low in May 2023

Average bulk diesel price drops to 20-month low in May

The average price for delivered bulk diesel continued to fall in May and is now almost 50ppl below the fuel crisis high, according to...