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4 June 2014 | Issue 541
routeONE magazine
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Five years of hard graft have seen Yourbus evolve into a strong business, despite strong
competition. The Heanor-based independent, run by Scott Dunn, gets the job done properly without
making a fuss about it – focusing on quality, differentiating itself, and keeping tasks in-house. p24-26
Why is EBSR unpopular?
Buy-out at Shearings Group
Operators going mobile
We explore why take-up has been slow. p4-5
MBO led by chief exec Wormwell completes. p6-7
Why m-ticketing’s the way forward. p28-30
Livery Competition 2014 – have you entered yours? p33
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This Week | 4 June 2014, Issue 541
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Bobbing on the financial sea
Some time on Friday, the outcome of the Newark
by-election will be known. Then, political
commentators will turn their attention to the
general election next May.
For coach and bus operators, this is the start
of a real period of uncertainty (notwithstanding
which way the Scottish independence referendum
goes in September).
For coach operators, the effects of any changes
to interest rates and taxation on the disposable income of their customers
will feed through into holiday and day trip bookings.
On the other side of the coin, for bus operators, what will happen to
BSOG on all sides of the borders is an important concern.
In England, the government pledged to keep it unchanged until the
election. In Scotland and Wales, there are no such pledges, and another
change is not unlikely.
Then, again for all three countries, the subject of concessionary travel
reimbursement raises its head.
There has been increasing public volume over the funding of this, and
the direct effect that, together with other cuts in bus funding, it is having
on operators’ abilities to provide services.
As we report on yet another bus operator’s closure, it is clear that the
impact of government decisions had an unhealthy impact on the business.
Whether it was the straw that broke the camel’s back may never be publicly
known.
But, as operators try to establish what their operating budget might look
like for 2015-6, or even for their five-year business plan, it’s no comfort at
all that their business is at the mercy of politicians’ whims.
Bobbing around in a financial sea of uncertainty is no help to anyone.
Coach operators can take some comfort from their ability to diversify
into other sectors. The lucky ones may be in areas where corporate
contracts are available, in addition to the usual mix of schools, group travel
and private hire.
For others, there may not be as many opportunities to select different
eggs for the business basket.
So, it will take a strong nerve to hold out over the next year – or possibly
more – until coach and bus operators know what the impact of all the fiscal
levers that government and local authorities can pull will be.
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Big Story | Electronic Bus Service Registration
The DfT recently published a consultation inviting operators’ views on electronic bus
service registration, and whether it should be made mandatory. Jessamy Hudson reports
on bus operators who have implemented it, and why more operators aren’t using it
In January 2012, we reported that
the Competition Commission
(CC) had concluded its investigation into the local bus market
(routeone, Big Story, 5 January
2012).
We promised that it wasn’t
the end – not even the beginning of the end.
The CC recommended
a series of remedies to the
Government to help open up
the market for commercial bus
services, mainly focusing on
multi-operator ticketing and
operator behaviour.
As a result, a consultation by
the Department for Transport
(Df T) was published in March,
exploring how to implement
the Competition Commission’s
remedies on bus registration. At
the same time, the Df T decided
to seek views on a related matter.
While the first part of the
consultation dealt with remedies suggested by the CC to
open up the market for commercial bus services, the second half
was involved with the question
of electronic bus service registration (EBSR) – making bus
registration digital by default,
a mandatory requirement;
and how to make EBSR more
accessible to small and medium
operators.
The consultation was sent to
bus operators, local authorities,
passenger transport executives
and EBSR software providers. It
sought views on the following:
l Potential barriers to the full
roll-out of EBSR in the next 2-3
years and how those barriers
might be addressed
l
Potential solutions to make
the software accessible to small
and medium operators
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l
Whether Traveline acting as
an agent for operators without
TransXChange- compliant
scheduling equipment is worth
exploring.
The consultation closed
in May, and its results will
be published in the next two
months.
Errors decreased
Although EBSR was first
conceived in the late 1990s, and
introduced in January 2008, it’s
still the case that only 20% of
bus registrations are submitted
electronically – leaving much
room for human error, as the
DVSA and Traveline have to
manually copy data submitted
on paper into the database.
EBSR uses a file format
called TransXChange (TXC)
for reading and submitting data.
It improves data accuracy by
virtually eliminating human
error, because only one copy of
the data needs to be produced,
and this can be duplicated for
use by local authorities, the
DVSA, Traveline and others
– for example, software developers who wish to create a local
bus app.
It can also reduce staff workload, and the time taken to
process bus service registrations
and timetables.
However, EBSR is still
perceived by many bus operators to be too costly and complicated to use.
Understandably, most bus
operators will prefer to take a
back seat and see how it develops
before making an investment.
Who’s using it now?
Reading Buses implemented
EBSR in June 2013, using
Omnibus’ EBSR module,
which integrates with existing
Omnibus software.
Reading
Buses
uses
OmniTIMES to create timetables, and OmniMAP for route
maps. With EBSR it can now
include the intermediate stop
points as well as the required
mapping detail for routes.
Asked whether Reading
would ever go back to paper
registrations, the answer from
Operations Support Manager
Steve Bell is a resounding ‘no’.
“EBSR saves a lot of time,” he
says. “You enter your bus registrations just once, save them,
and then it’s just a case of repackaging them and sending them
to the DVSA when required.
There’s no photocopying maps
or posting forms.
“Usually it only takes 24-48
hours for VOSA to send back
confirmation. We can send off
registrations on a Friday afternoon and have the confirmation
by Tuesday morning.
Stagecoach is the only one of
the ‘big four’ bus operators to
have rolled out EBSR across its
entire group.”
“We have found that there are
a number of advantages,” says
Lindsay Reid, Senior Group
Communications
Manager.
“It allows us to create a single
source of data for registering
services that can also be used
to power external information systems with the minimal
amount of manual intervention
or re-keying by downstream
users, therefore reducing the
risk of error.
“EBSR exports the data in
TransXChange (TXC) format
which allows a richer and more
detailed export than the previous standard (ATCO-CIF).
“In addition, the DVSA’s
EBSR service is available 24
hours a day, which reduces our
dependence on postal services,
fax etc. and complying with
public counter hours at the
DVSA offices. When an application is made it is automatically
acknowledged by the DVSA
and notified to affected local
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Initial costs are a concern for operators, but EBSR is good for efficiency
authorities, so they’re aware of
any changes as soon as they’re
made.
“As soon as the application is
accepted or rejected the local
authorities are also notified,
and we can download an official PDF to prove exactly what
has been accepted by the Traffic
Commissioner.”
No cash incentive
However, the return on investment can be slow to show itself,
and this is the prime reason
why uptake has been slow. “The
main challenge is probably the
initial cost of buying a system
that can produce TXC files,”
says Ms Reid. “So far the DVSA
has not given any cash incentive to operators to start using it
and, while the number of local
authorities that have software
that can import TXC has been
growing slowly, it has also been
restricted by spending cuts.”
“In terms of efficiency, it saves
time, and perhaps a little money
as well,” Mr Bell adds. “The fee
for electronic registrations is the
same for paper, but you could
argue the labour costs decrease
a little because there’s less admin
involved, and it takes less time.
“If you don’t already have the
timetabling software in place,
you’d have to make an investment in both, so for operators
who are still using an Excel
spreadsheet for timetables, it
could be costly.
“But it definitely makes a
difference.”
Mr Bell’s colleague Simon
Gold, Planning Officer, says:
“Because our timetabling and
maps are electronic already, we
simply package that software
with the EBSR module, and
it’s basically a click-through
process.
“You simply convert it into a
zip file, put it in the self-service
portal on the DVSA’s website,
and you get an e-mail back
within five minutes to half an
hour to say it’s been received.
Occasionally there may be an
error with the data, but the
EBSR module will generally tell
you what the problem is and
how to fix it.
“The DVSA will send an
e-mail back within 48-72 hours
to say it’s effective. We recently
had one back in just two hours.”
It is flexible
One of the reasons operators
may be put off is that paper registrations are more flexible, but
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Mr Gold says this isn’t the case.
“Supporting documents can
be included,” he says. “You get
the option at the end to upload
PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, Word
documents – whatever you need
to.
“If you need to submit a variation for a particular service – for
example, a one-off service on St
Patrick’s Day – you can attach a
PDF relevant to that day. There
have been some worries that
EBSR doesn’t have the same
flexibility as paper registrations,
but you can do these things.”
Passenger Focus believes that
EBSR could bring benefits for
passengers. “Having timetables
in electronic form will make it
easier to provide better quality
timetable information to passengers via websites and apps,” the
independent watchdog says. “It
should also improve timetable
accuracy after a revision.
“EBSR should also provide
greater transparency about any
service changes that might be
proposed, so interested groups
and individuals can fully understand their impact.
“It should help inspire a good
debate about any changes and
a consideration of alternatives,
including encouraging replacement operators.”
EBSR sounds so simple and
natural – an obvious progression to the digital world – but
the cost of implementing it
cannot easily be recouped. But
be prepared for the outcomes of
the consultation, and the likely
eventuality of it being made
mandatory.
routeone comment
EBSR isn’t new, and in terms of digitalising operations it
makes sense. So the low uptake seems unusual – and, until
an incentive is offered to operators, set to continue. All the
answers to the DfT’s consultation will be published in about
two months’ time, but in the meantime, we’d be interested to
hear operators’ thoughts on the matter.
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News
In brief
Citaro is winner
Mercedes-Benz’ Citaro was the overall winner in the 8th
International Bus Competition (IBC), which pitched it against the
MAN Lion’s City, Scania Citywide, Solaris Urbino 12 and VDL
Citea SLF 120. Collectively, the five buses account for 90% of
mainland Europe’s annual sales. In the week-long test, the Citaro
was in first place with 85%. Although it has a high purchase
price, its features outweighed this. In the tests it delivered
8.6mpg in urban driving and 9.2mpg in rural use.
Nat Ex and Rotala settle dispute
Rotala has reached an out-of-court settlement with National
Express Ltd (NEL) after a dispute. After the loss of two route
diagrams operated on behalf of NEL, Rotala started legal
proceedings against NEL for breach of contract and wrote off an
exceptional item of £364,000 in its annual accounts (routeone,
News, 30 April). Rotala has now announced that it has “reached
a full and final settlement with NEL of its claim in satisfactory
terms.”
Drug runner caught
A drug runner who was caught after a National Express coach
driver smelled cannabis, has been jailed by Derby Crown Court
for 14 months. Saeed Karsha, 24, was arrested after heroin and
cannabis were found at his flat on Foundry Court, Burngreave,
Sheffield. He pleaded guilty to possessing the drugs with intent
to supply.
Plug-in deal
Volvo is to supply three plug-in diesel-electric hybrid buses to
Hamburg later this year. They have a 10km electric-only range,
with Siemens supplying opportunity top-up charging at termini
via a fixed pantograph that lowers onto contact bars on the roof
of the bus, taking 6-10 minutes to charge.
EDL march warning
The English Defence League (EDL) is holding a demonstration
in Stevenage on Saturday (7 June), and Hertfordshire Police is
asking operators to assist with policing the event. It is asking
operators who have taken bookings or had enquiries for
transport to Stevenage to e-mail booking details to OPAxile@
Herts.pnn.police.uk
Lothian’s best year
Lothian Buses says 2013 was its most successful year with
£132m revenue (2012: £122m) and a net profit of £8.5m, up
7.8%. There were 115m journeys, up by 4m and the highest for
25 years. The company will pay a £3.3m dividend to its local
authority shareholders.
DfT agrees bypass
The £26.4m Crewe Green Link Road – a 1.1km dual carriageway
from the existing bypass on the A500 to the A5020 passing
under the Crewe-Stoke railway – has been approved by the
Department for Transport. It will provide a bypass for the town.
Eurotunnel barred
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally
confirmed an earlier decision by the Competition Commission
(CC) that Eurotunnel should be barred from operating its
MyFerryLink service from Dover. Eurotunnel says the decision is
flawed.
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By Mel Holley
[email protected]
Exit of private equity
fund 3i and replacement
by managers provides
clarity for holiday firm
Shearings Group’s management
team has completed a buyout
of the business with the backing
of Lloyds Bank Commercial
Banking. The terms of the deal
are not disclosed, but city analysts
suggest that it is no more than 10%
of the £200m the business was
valued at in February 2005, when
private equity fund 3i brought
Wallace Arnold and Shearings
together.
The transaction, led by CEO
Denis Wormwell – who joined
Shearings in September 2007 –
provides an exit for 3i and venture
capitalist Indigo Capital.
It also brings to an end continual
speculation about the ownership of the Group, which 3i has
been looking to disposal of for a
number of years.
As part of the deal, completed
late on Friday (30 May), a new
holding company has been
created to own Shearings Group.
Shearings has also renewed its
existing banking facilities with
Lloyds Bank for a further two
years.
Shearings runs 240 leased
coaches, 200 of which are under
four years old, under its National
Holidays, Shearings and Grand
Tourer brands, using 48 leased
and two owned hotels. It has 2,683
staff.
Its hotels are branded Bay
Hotels (mainly used by National
Holidays and aimed at a younger
market), with its Coast & Countrybranded hotels offering a quieter
stay and used by Shearings and
Grand Tourer customers.
The Coast & Country hotels
are also used for self-drive holidays
and by other operators. Shearings
will only say that these bookings
represent a “significant proportion” of the business.
Wigan-based Shearings recently
announced it had grown passenger
numbers by 2.6% to a record
1.05m in 2013, reflecting strong
demand from its core over-50s
customer base, generating sales of
£195m and profits (EBITDA) of
£5.8m. However, in the last three
years, revenues have been flat, with
pre-tax losses of £3.5m-£2.1m.
With gross assets of £52m, it has
debts of £7.8m, down from £20m
in 2009.
Bristol spearheads cycle
safety in trial by First
First West of England is testing
cycle safety technology on three
buses on the busy Gloucester
Road route in the city. It is part
of a trial funded by four West of
England local authorities.
The CycleEye technology
has been developed by Bristol
engineering company Fusion
Processing Ltd to reduce cyclist
collisions.
It uses radar and camera
sensors to identify when the risk
for the cyclist is increased due to
being in the vehicle’s blind spot,
and gives an audible alert to the
driver’s cab.
More than 3,000 cyclists were
seriously injured in Britain in
2012, the highest number for a
decade. Fatalities rose by 10%
to 118.
Cycling in Bristol has
doubled over the last 10 years.
Between 2008-2011 cyclists
were involved in over a quarter
of all collisions in the city, and
19 cases involved buses.
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Says Mr Wormwell: “This is
an important milestone as we
continue our growth strategy
through building brands targeting
third-age customers.
“Lloyds Bank has been a
committed partner of the business
for many years. This new transaction demonstrates its continued
confidence in the management
team, the market and the model.
“The Group is hugely appreciative of 3i’s support over the years
– a partnership which has enabled
us to build a strong and scalable
business for future growth.”
Dave Allanson, Area Director
of Lloyds Bank Commercial
Banking in the North West, says:
“Denis and the team have demonstrated to us the resilience of the
business, maintaining strong sales
and growing profits despite one of
the toughest climates the holiday
market has seen for many years.
“Despite continued pressure
on consumer spending, we’re
confident that the business will
continue to progress further
thanks to its loyal customer base,
diversified product offering and
clear strategy.”
This is the second management
buy-out (MBO) in two decades. In
December 1996 an MBO, backed
by venture capitalists Bridgepoint,
was completed. In its present form,
Shearings runs 240 leased coaches, 200 of which are under four years old
Shearings is an amalgamation of
four separate companies: Smiths
Happiways, Shearings, National
Holidays and Wallace Arnold.
In turn, Smiths Happiways has
its roots in Wigan and a century
ago, in 1914, James Smith began
operating coach tours from Wigan
and Southport. The first tour was
to John O’Groats.
Smiths, Shearings and National
Holidays came together in the
mid-1980s and by 1990 were part
of The Rank Organisation, until
selling it to a management buyout
in 1996 backed by Bridgepoint
Capital.
Venture capitalists normally
expect a return within five years,
and in June 2004, Shearings Group
PLC planned to float on the Stock
Exchange, to raise around £100m.
However, just eight days before
its planned market launch, it
announced on 15 June 2004 that it
abandoned the flotation as it didn’t
think it would succeed.
Instead, in March 2006, a saleand-lease back deal of the then
39-strong hotel estate to Londonbased Moorfield Group raised
£110m, clearing most of Shearings
Group’s debt. The lease deal is for
25 years. At the time, then-CEO
John Slatcher told routeone:
“For the first time since 1996 we
are virtually debt-free. It’s a good
move that also gives us some
working capital.”
Shearings says that the latest
MBO does not involve Moorfield
Group as a part owner, nor has it
changed the terms of the lease.
In February 2005 venture capitalist 3i, then owner of Shearings
Holidays’ main competitor
Wallace Arnold, purchased a
controlling stake in Shearings.
3i merged the two competitors
under the WA Shearings brand,
adding nine hotels to the portfolio.
In September 2007 WA
Shearings was rebranded as
Shearings Holidays.
Gauntlet cleans up as part
of 20th anniversary plans
Ticket info resource from
CPT to counter criticsm
To celebrate its 20th anniversary,
managers at Yorkshire-based
coach and bus insurance broker
Gauntlet are volunteering to
handwash an operator’s vehicle
– with the operator also getting
a £150 Red Letter Day voucher.
Says founder and MD Roger
Gaunt: “We have always tried to
go the extra mile for our coach
and bus sector customers, and
shall head out to prove that point
when we get our lucky winner.”
Any operator wishing to enter
To help counter claims that the
industry is slow to offer multioperator tickets, and to help
keep track of what is available,
the Confederation of Passenger
Transport (CPT) is compiling
a spreadsheet of multi-operator
and multi-modal tickets available in England.
Thanks to the efforts of
former Stagecoach UK Bus
MD Les Warneford, who
represents CPT on the project
board, the CPT already has
the competition to win a prize of
a vehicle clean by the Gauntlet
team should e-mail their name,
company name and address to
busandcoach@gauntletgroup.
com by 31 July.
The insurance provider has
demonstrated a deep understanding of the needs of operators. Its client base comprises
coach, bus and mini-bus operators, which all access the most
comprehensive and competitive
cover for their needs.
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good information for the nine
areas in Df T’s Smart Cities
Project – the PTE areas plus
Nottingham, Leicester and
Bristol – and the latest spreadsheet is available to download at
www.zigs.me/4Qb
If you find something that
you know to be incorrect, or if
you want to add a multi-operator and/or multi-modal ticket
in England that is not on the
list, contact Steven Salmon at
[email protected]
03/06/2014 17:33
News
By Mel Holley
[email protected]
Firm closes as two
arrested in fraud
investigation
Due to financial issues,
Llanberis-based Padarn Bus
closed after the end of services
on Friday (30 May) with the
loss of 84 jobs. It has gone into
creditors’ voluntary liquidation.
The announcement came
a day after a man, 44, and a
woman, 28, were arrested by
Welsh Police following allegations of fraud at the company.
The firm had been in financial
difficulty for some time. In late
April, Baker Tilly Restructuring
& Recovery marketed it, with
the hope of a pre-pack-style sale
by 2 May. Although offers were
received, none were considered
suitable.
The firm owns its Llanberis
base.
It had a £3.6m turnover, with
a net loss of £152,000 for the
12 months to 31 December
2013. The position worsened
to a £778,000 turnover with a
£112,000 net loss for the three
months to 31 March.
Most of the 45-strong fleet
was subject to finance and
leases.
It ran 28 routes. Gwynedd
Council has re-allocated 10
tendered routes to Arriva Buses
Wales, six to Express Motors
and two to Gwynfor Coaches
and O.R. Jones of Llanfaethlu.
GHA Coaches of Wrexham
is running the summer-only
Snowdon Sherpa route.
Nine other routes in competition with other operators were
withdrawn.
The company was founded
as a taxi firm back in 1979 by
Dafydd and Darren Price, later
moving to coach hire in 1984,
with the name of the company
derived from the nearby Llyn
Padarn Lake.
In October 2005, it launched
its first commercial route, the
hourly 77 linking Bangor and
Bethesda, and quickly followed
with a similar hourly route 76.
It continued to be a small-scale
operation until 2009 when
Padarn Bus directors concluded
Firm’s extensive network was centred on Bangor, Caernarfon and Anglesey
a deal to buy KMP Coaches of
Llanberis, when Ken Williams,
the manager of the 34-vehicle
independent, announced that
he wished to sell the business
in 2007.
Padarn was interested in
buying KMP as Darren Price
had previously worked at the
company, but could not afford
to buy the whole of KMP. In
August 2008 Arriva Buses
Wales purchased part of KMP;
the remainder of KMP was sold
to Padarn in April 2009.
It was this deal that proved
to be the firm’s undoing as it
saddled it with debt, supplied
by government-backed Finance
Wales, which is also a shareholder in the firm.
Finance Wales was set up
in 2001 to invest in small and
medium Welsh business that
couldn’t get funding from
banks. However, it has relatively
high interest rates.
In January, Padarn Bus raised
fares, saying it “faced extremely
challenging economic conditions” including a 30% reduction in BSOG, 15% reduction in
concessionary travel reimbursement, and a “substantial reduction” in local authority support
due to budget cuts.
TAS transforms Shetland bus network after review
Consultancy
The
TAS
Partnership is celebrating a major
success.
Public and home-to-school
bus contracts it helped to revise
and retender have been approved
– in a showcase example of the
consultancy working as an integral part of the Shetland Islands
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Council (SIC) transport team.
Working alongside council
officers,
TAS
replanned
Shetland’s bus and school transport network, created a framework contract for all the council’s contractors and assisted in
retendering.
It also advised on policies,
community transport and safety.
TAS’s involvement will lead to
a saving of more than £5.5m over
five years. It has also removed
duplication by packaging services
together and integrating school
transport services, to make the
most of vehicles and staff.
In particular, TAS advocated
moving from minimum subsidy
to minimum cost contracts, since
there are no commercial services
on the islands.
This provides ZetTrans with
the opportunity to introduce
integrated tickets and a series of
promotional products targeted
at tourists and other user groups.
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News
By Mel Holley
[email protected]
Reading’s cat poised to
leap onto former GoAhead supported route
Reading Buses’ newest service –
route 3, launching on 16 June – is
designed to catch the eye with its
striking bold look and name The
Leopard.
Says Marketing Manager Jake
Osman: “It conjures up the image
of a big cat stalking between
Wokingham and Reading ready
to sweep up passengers waiting
for the bus.
“We are confident the new
Leopard 3 service is sure to catch
attention with its striking bold
look and name.”
The Leopard will run every 20
minutes between Reading and
Arborfield Garrison, with one bus
an hour extending to Wokingham
– the same frequency and route
as Go-Ahead-owned Thames
Travel’s former route 144, which
finishes the day before.
It comes as Reading makes a
bold move to convert the route
from partially subsidised to fully
commercial.
Thames Travel gained route
144 as a contract win from
Wokingham Borough Council
after Tillingbourne went bust in
March 2001, and subsequently
made it a commercial service
between Reading and Arborfield,
with the section to Wokingham
being contracted. Thames Travel
was bought by Go-Ahead in May
2011.
When the route came up for
re-tender, Reading Buses offered
to take the entire service on
as a commercial venture, and
was named as the winner by
Wokingham Borough Council.
In a change to its solid-colour route branding, Leopard is Reading’s new route
Reading Buses has invested
£1.3m in six new ADL/Scania
bio-methane buses for the routes
and a team of 15 specially-selected
drivers is being brought together
for the route.
Adds Mr Osman: “Our plan is
to run a really reliable service in
line with our standards across the
rest of Reading Buses.”
The new service also sees
the restoration of evening buses
(Mondays-Saturdays) between
Reading and Arborfield with
the last bus now at 2255hrs. On
Sundays buses will run every half
an hour between Arborfield and
Reading, compared with Thames
Travel’s hourly service.
Fares will be “broadly in line
with current prices,” but the fares
structure “may not be quite the
same” as Thames Travel’s service,
says Mr Osman. Reading’s drivers
will also be giving change, in
contrast to most of Reading’s
exact-fare-only policy.
In addition, it will be introducing an online £18 ‘Leopard 7
day’ ticket.
15% discount for readers
Online auction for DAC
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offering routeone readers a 15%
discount when they book a place
at its conference on 16-18 June.
The three-day event offers
plenary sessions, workshops
and technical visits for all parties
involved in school transport.
Sessions on communications,
marketing and service design
will be especially relevant to
operators. These include media
training, designing marketing
and branding, and presentations
on engaging with young people.
There are also safety sessions
Property and asset consultants
at ES Group’s Exeter office
have held an online auction of
the assets of DAC Coaches, on
the instruction of liquidators at
Richard J Smith and Co and a
major finance company.
The auction saw the sale
of four coaches and 11 buses,
as well as minibuses and cars.
Along with the vehicles, lots
included garage equipment
and office furniture, with 63
successful purchasers from a
pool of almost 150 registered
bidders.
from the European Child
Safety Alliance, and talks from
Bus Éireann and Merseytravel
on expanding operations and
services overseas.
A workshop on Hertfordshire’s
transformation agenda, and how
local authorities are changing the
way they work with private operators, will be of interest to those
tendering for services or working
with local authorities.
To claim your 15% off, enter
‘routeone’ in the promotional
code box on the registration form,
at www.interchange-ability.com
DAC Coaches was based in
Gunnislake, East Cornwall. It
traded for more than 40 years
but ceased trading in March.
Major vehicle bids included
a Plaxton Primo 2 for £28,500,
an Iveco Beulas Stergo 70-seater
for £28,000, and a Mercedes
0813 Vario Plaxton Beaver 2
for £23,500. Other notable
lots sold included four Stertil
Koni ST-1055B inspection
lifts at £6,900, four Stertil Koni
11,500kg car lifts at £2,200 and
an Eclipse Testpad Extreme
diagnostic for £1,600.
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03/06/2014 14:39
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News
By Mel Holley
[email protected]
Changes to transport
funding are unfair on the
regions, say MPs
Transport infrastructure in
some parts of the UK may
get left behind under the new
system to be used from 2015 to
share out central government
money for local major transport schemes, warn MPs on the
Transport Select Committee.
Launching its report of an
inquiry that looked closely
at the new arrangements for
local decisions on transport
spending, Louise Ellman MP,
Chair of the Committee, said:
“Far less money is spent on
transport projects outside
London than in the capital.
“This inequality has gone on
for too long and has to change.
“For example, The Institute
for Public Policy Research
found that transport infrastructure spending is £2,500 per
head in London compared with
£5 per head in the north east.
“Even on the Government’s
figures, transport spending per
head in London is more than
twice that in the English regions.
“The Government has again
changed the system for distributing money to local areas for
major transport projects, with
much more emphasis now on
competition for funding. This
will not necessarily help regions
get a fairer share of transport
funding, and could make the
situation worse.
“Those Local Enterprise
Partnerships (LEPs), which are
well organised and resourced,
will have an advantage in
bidding for funds.
“Other areas may lose out as
a result.
Local transport expenditure: Who decides? MPs say that new system is unfair
“In addition, with greater reliance on competitive bidding for
funds, we will see more money
wasted on failed bids.
“The Government’s focus
on using competition to bring
in private sector funding for
projects could disadvantage the
regions, where there tends to be
less private sector money available compared with London.
“It is also unclear whether
the £6bn the Department for
Transport is contributing to
the Single Local Growth Fund
will all be used for transport
purposes.”
The Committee calls for the
new funding arrangements to
be reviewed by the end of the
next Parliament to ensure that
they are efficient and effective in
providing funding for the most
urgent transport priorities.
l Report at www.zigs.me/4Qe
Lothian goes ADL’s Custom Coaches goes ‘under’
for Volvo B5 Alexander Dennis Ltd’s (ADL) Workers Union Regional appear secure, if required Scania
Lothian Buses has ordered 25
Wrightbus Gemini 3 double
deckers on Volvo’s Euro 6 B5TL
chassis, with Volvo’s 4-cylinder
5.1 litre 240hp D5K engine and
a ZF EcoLife gearbox. It follows
a two-month trial with an evaluation vehicle.
The 11.4m buses have wheelchair and buggy areas, multicolour LED destination displays
and Wi-Fi. They will also have a
full length glass staircase.
Australian subsidiary, bus and
coach manufacturer Custom
Coaches, has gone into voluntary
administration.
ADL met on Thursday
(29 May) and closed Custom
Coach’s Adelaide and Sydney
manufacturing operations. The
aftermarket operations continue
to operate.
Administrators Deloitte are
now operating the company and
hope to sell it as a going concern.
Australian
Manufacturing
Secretary Scott Batchelor says:
“They announced to workers that
the company had been put into
voluntary administration and the
parent, ADL, no longer wishes to
pour money into the company.’’
Mr Batchelor says the company
still has contracts with the South
Australian State Government and
it also has private sales.
South Australian Transport
Minister Stephen Mullighan
said: “We are monitoring the
situation, and while all orders
will fill our demand through
existing contracts with alternate
suppliers.”
When ADL bought Custom
Coaches in June 2012 in a
‘multi-million deal’, ADL CEO
Colin Robertson pledged that
ADL would “invest in people,
processes and products” as it bid
to “turn a successful brand into a
great Australian business.” At the
time it employed 400 people and
had a 24% share of the Australian
market.
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News
By Mel Holley
[email protected]
Euro Bus Expo 2014 has
waiting list of exhibitors
Euro Bus Expo (EBE) 2014 is
set to be a sell-out according
to show organisers, Expo
Management.
With five months before
the start of the show, there is a
waiting list for open stands and
fewer than 20 small stands left
unsold, which means that there
will be a full complement of 260
exhibitors when the three-day
trade show opens at the NEC
in Birmingham on 4 November.
“Demand has been particularly strong his year, with exhibitor bookings at 2008 levels,
which we would only normally
expect to see three months
further down the track,” says
Show Director Mark Griffin.
“Significantly, many of the bookings have come from companies
looking to exhibit at the show for
the first time.
“There are a number of
factors driving strong exhibitor
demand – the improvement
in the economy has certainly
translated into enhanced confidence, while the recent government announcement on a range
of measures to support ultralow emission vehicles (ULEVs)
is undoubtedly another boost
throughout the whole industry
supply chain.
“Five months out, more
than 240 exhibitors have made
EBE 2014 a key part of their
marketing activities and, in the
process, between them snapped
up nearly 95% of all available
space. I would therefore strongly
urge any organisations that are
thinking about exhibiting at
what will be the premier trade
show for our industry this year,
Demand for space by exhibitors particularly strong this year, say organisers
to contact the show team as soon
as possible to make sure they
don’t miss out.”
Euro Bus Expo 2014 will be
firmly focusing on the future
of passenger transport, and the
education programme at the
show will be highlighting technology and the environment.
There promises to be plenty
of ULEVs on show, including
hybrid, electric and gas powered
models from many leading
manufacturers.
The online registration facility
is now open. One visitor already
planning to attend is Baroness
Kramer, Minister of State for
Transport, who has received a
personal invitation to visit the
show from the Confederation
of Passenger Transport.
l Visit www.eurobusxpo.com
More buses BUSK campaign targets illegal hotels
and trams
Campaigning
organisation evidence of fire safety breaches.
driver is told there is no available
Coinciding with the start of the
£776m Airport-Edinburgh tram
on Saturday (31 May), Lothian
Buses – which runs the 27 trams
– made a number of bus service
changes.
There are two new routes, while
19 routes see major improvements. Significantly, the Airlink
100 (connecting the airport to
the city centre) now runs 24/7.
Previously, Airlink ran between
0426hrs and 0019hrs.
BUSK’s Nightcap campaign –
which aims to ensure coach tour
drivers get suitable accommodation to provide proper rest – has
identified hotels where fire regulations are not being met.
BUSK has discovered that
coach drivers are being provided
with accommodation that, in
the event of a fire, may not have
a means of escape.
BUSK will report every illegal
hotel to the Fire Service, when
provided with photographic
Says BUSK Director Pat
Harris: “Frequently I am
contacted by drivers who are
given rooms in basements
without any windows, or, a
room within a room. Drivers
that ask the hotel for a different
room are often told it is the only
room available.
“Our advice to drivers is, if
allocated a room where they
believe they are at risk, to ask
the manager to provide another
room. If this is refused or the
alternative, the driver should call
the local fire service and report
it.
“The Fire Service will visit the
hotel immediately if they believe
there is a fire risk to life, no matter
what time of the day or night it
is. They have the power to order
the hotel to take the bed out of
the room and not to use it again.
“They also have the power to
look at every room and remove
beds from any other ‘illegal
rooms’.”
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News
By Mel Holley
[email protected]
Second round of funding
to provide clean fleets in
polluted areas
Transport Minister Baroness
Kramer has opened a competition to bid to for grants from a
£5m Clean Vehicle Technology
Fund.
Local authorities in England
can bid for funding to make
improvements to bus fleets
and other vehicles that will cut
pollution.
Local authorities must
submit bids by 25 July, with the
winners being announced by
early September.
Last year’s £7.3m Clean
Bus Technology Fund helped
modify 500 buses in 26 local
authorities’ areas.
This year’s scheme allows
local authorities to apply for
funding to improve other vehicles in their fleets, providing
they are used predominantly on
local roads with poor air quality.
Baroness Kramer said: “This
is our latest step in a major
programme of measures to
make our air cleaner.
“We are raising the bar and
making sure that the ongoing
trend of improving air quality
continues.
“This £5 million will mean
less harmful exhaust fumes
from buses, and other vehicles,
in some of our most polluted
urban areas.
“This funding will also secure
jobs and growth in the industries delivering the technology.”
The funding, up to a
maximum of £500,000 for
Baroness Kramer: ‘Funding also secures jobs in the technology industries’
any one authority (London is
classed as one authority under
the bidding rules), will allow
authorities to fit pollutionbusting technology treating
exhaust fumes, or converting
vehicles to run on cleaner fuels.
l Details from www.zigs.
me/4Qd
Product News
Exol’s new lubricant tech
Quality FLG turbo hose clips
Extra Foot improves safety
Exol, the UK’s
largest lubricants
blender, has
launched a new oil
for heavy-duty diesel
engines, which
has been specially
formulated to meet the requirements of
commercial vehicles.
Taurus SHPD E7 15W-40 incorporates
a blend of solvent refined base oils,
viscosity index improvers, pour point
depressants and an innovative additive
system. It is approved by many engine
manufacturers, including Cummins and
Volvo.
The new oil exceeds the requirements
of Euro 4 and certain Euro 5 engines
and will suit coaches or buses used on
inter-city or long-haul operations. It also
helps ensure less turbocharger deposit
build-up.
Supporting
its recentlylaunched turbo
hose range and
also catering for
demand for other
miscellaneous
engine cooling
solutions, First Line Group (FLG) has
unveiled a range of high-quality turbo
hose clips.
The 12mm wide 1000 series caters for
hose diameters between 30-110mm and
uses a spring-loaded constant tension
mechanism. The 18, 20 and 25mmwide 1100 series has a bolted clamp
mechanism and is suitable for use on
the end of the hose which fits directly to
the turbo. It covers diameters from 34 to
85mm.
FTG’s full 20-clamp range is in stock
and available for immediate delivery.
Helping
drivers
perform all
their daily
checks is
the purpose
of The Extra
Foot, which allows them to check brake
lights are working without assistance from
another member of staff.
The Extra Foot braces against the
steering wheel and depresses the brake
pedal to allow the driver to check stop
lights are working. An attachment may
also be provided which means The Extra
Foot can function as a mirror cleaner or
scraper.
It is endorsed by BUSK, whose Simply
Safe members have trialled The Extra Foot
with good results. BUSK has negotiated
“a significantly reduced rate” for Simply
Safe members buying The Extra Foot.
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Court Report
Your weekly report by the industry’s leading legal journalist,
Mike Jewell, who covers all the key cases brought before
the Public Inquiries, Tribunals, Magistrate and Crown Courts
TM abroad for six months and maintenance issues,
including no-paperwork mindset, lead to Burnley
operator being suspended until new TM is found
The one-vehicle national
licence held by Burnley-based
John Birkett, trading as Ribble
Valley Car & Commercial, has
been suspended until a new
qualified Transport Manager
(TM) has been appointed.
Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC) Patrick Mulvenna
was told that Mr Birkett’s current
nominated TM, his brother
Alan, had been abroad since last
October. Mr Birkett, of Sabden
Road, Higham, Burnley, had
been called before the DTC at
a Golborne Public Inquiry (PI).
At the outset the DTC wanted
to know why Mr Birkett’s brother
was not present at the PI.
Mr Birkett said that his
brother had been called out to
a family illness in Tenerife. He
had applied for the licence in
August and his brother went out
to Tenerife in October because
his father-in-law was ill. It was
still ongoing, though he did
come back occasionally.
He agreed that there was no
qualified TM with day-to-day
responsibility. He said that he
had applied for a restricted
licence to replace his present
court report iss541.indd 18
licence. He had sought advice
from VOSA whether he was a
suitable applicant for a restricted
licence.
One of his main incomes
was from rental properties. The
vehicle was a minibus adapted
to carry three wheelchairs for
disabled children. It covered 54
miles a day, 184 days a year on a
school contract. He maintained
the vehicle himself.
The DTC said that he could
not deal with the restricted
licence application as it was still
being processed by the Traffic
Area Office. A Vehicle Examiner
(VE) who had carried out an
investigation in September
had reported that there was
no forward planning system,
that the vehicle had not been
inspected when it should have
been, and that there was no
driver defect reporting system.
Mr Birkett said that he had
worked for Robinsons of Great
Harwood for 17 years and when
away from base he used to telephone the garage. As a result
his mindset had been to do it
without paperwork. It was all in
his head. There were only two
inspection records missing, and
that was when the vehicle was off
the road for repair. Everything
was now well documented.
After the DTC had said that
there had been no first-use check
after the vehicle was purchased,
Mr Birkett said that he had
purchased it off his brother and
he just continued his brother’s
maintenance system.
The DTC said that Mr Birkett
had put the condition of the
vehicle at risk, affecting the
safety of passengers and other
road users.
Mr Birkett said that the
vehicle was certainly quite well
looked after. The VE had never
found anything wrong with the
vehicle apart from a bulb out on
three inspections. He had found
nothing wrong apart from a lack
of documentation and that was
all in place now. The safety of the
vehicle had never been an issue.
In reply to the DTC, Mr
Birkett said that perhaps he
should have taken action to get
a new TM by now. He agreed
He knew vehicles. Everything was being
done, it was just not being documented. The
TM situation had got drawn out longer that
anyone had anticipated that he had told the VE that he
expected his brother back by
March or April.
He agreed that he had changed
his maintenance contractor and
the inspection period without
notifying the TC, saying he
had not realised he had to. He
accepted that the application for
a restricted licence would solve a
problem.
He said that he knew vehicles
and how to maintain them. He
had an HGV CPC and he used
to run lorries all over Europe.
Everything was being done, it
was just not being documented.
The TM situation had got
drawn out longer that anyone
had anticipated. There was an
operator in Nelson who would
act as his TM on a short-term
basis.
Delaying the suspension
order for six days, the DTC said
that the only positive feature
was that the vehicle had been
found to be in good condition
at the time of the VE’s inspection. The situation could not be
allowed to continue, but the risk
to public safety was not as high
as it might have been.
Finally, the DTC directed
that Alan Birkett is not allowed
to act as a TM in any Traffic
Area until he has attended a
PI to explain his absence and
the failure to notify the Traffic
Commissioner of that absence.
The DTC said he was extremely
disappointed that Alan Birkett
had not even contacted the
Traffic Area Office.
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03/06/2014 10:12
TC refuses four restricted licences from one family
TC Denton concludes
licence applications
were a device to avoid
the TM requirement
Four applications for restricted
PSV
O-Licences
from
members of the same family
have been refused by Traffic
Commissioner (TC) Nick
Denton after he concluded
that they were a device to avoid
the more stringent financial
requirements of a standard
licence and the need to appoint
a Transport Manager.
Mukesh Limbachia, trading
as JML Minicoaches, and his
wife Nayna, trading as JML
Travel, of Stace Way, Worth,
Crawley; and Chandrakant
Limbachia and his wife
Pushpa, of Furnace Drive,
Furnace Green, Crawley,
had each sought a new twovehicle restricted licence at an
Eastbourne Public Inquiry.
Chandrakant and Mukesh
Limbachia were Directors of
Gatwick Links, which held
an eight-vehicle national
licence. That licence was to be
surrendered.
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Chandrakant Limbachia
said that he and his brother
had decided to split the family
business. He agreed that he
had filled in all four application forms, because he was
the head of the family and had
better handwriting.
They were applying for four
restricted licences because
they did not want the extra
expense of a TM.
He worked for about 10
hours a week in property
letting.
He spent about 20 hours a
week driving a minibus. If the
applications were granted, the
intention was that a transport
consultant would check tachographs across all four licences.
Pushpa Limbachia accepted
that her knowledge of PSV
operations was limited at
present, and said that she
would rely on her husband to
help her out. She confirmed
that she would be working 10
hours a week on the licence if
granted, compared to 20 hours
a week at Gatwick Airport.
Mukesh Limbachia said that
he would be driving for around
20 hours a week and doing five
or six hours on other licencerelated work. He worked
about 20 hours per week in
property letting. His daughter,
the current TM for Gatwick
Links, was getting married and
he did not want her to have to
continue with the burden of
being a TM. The only way they
could have restricted licences
was by applying for four separate licences.
Nayna Limbachia accepted
that she did not have a thorough understanding of the
details of O-Licence management, but said that she would
learn from her husband and
the transport consultant. She
was also employed at Gatwick
Airport.
Refusing the applications,
the TC said that he had severe
doubts on whether it could be
truly said that these were four
separate applications for four
independent businesses.
The compliance record of
Gatwick Links did not reassure
him that the applicants were
ready to operate their own
licences without the benefit of
a TM.
He considered that the
applications were a device
to circumvent the normal
requirements for a TM.
‘Main occupation’ was not
defined in the legislation, but
TCs considered both time
spent and income derived
from the occupation.
In this case, the brothers’
income from property letting
clearly exceeded the likely
income from the PSV business, but in terms of time spent,
the PSV business was the main
occupation. Therefore neither
Chandrakant nor Mukesh
Limbachia
fulfilled
the
requirement in the legislation
that their main occupation
must be something other than
PSV operation.
Neither Pushpa nor Nayna
Limbachia appeared to have
any real knowledge of the
responsibilities involved in
operating a PSV O-Licence.
He was not satisfied that either
had a sufficient level of knowledge of the basic requirements
of a licence holder.
He was prepared to accept
that the two brothers wished
to go their separate business
ways, but that would still leave
two licences of four vehicles
each, each licence requiring
a TM. The claim that each
husband and wife pair would
manage entirely separate
licences appeared highly
unlikely, given each wife’s
reliance on their husband for
knowledge of the operation.
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03/06/2014 15:38
Westminster Watch
In partnership with:
By now the political parties will be preparing their manifestos ready for the
general election next May. What will each party propose for coach and bus
policy? And who will have the guts to propose reform of the concessionary
travel scheme, asks our Westminster man? It needs to be done, and soon
Now the elections are over,
political minds will be increasingly focused on the preparation
of the manifestos for the next
general election – now less than
a year away.
This summer Labour finalises
the outcomes from its various
policy reviews, so we should
start to get some clarity around
its thinking on transport policy,
and bus policy in particular.
What might the three main
parties be proposing when it
comes to bus and coach policy?
For the Conservatives, I
would be amazed if they had
anything much to say at all. We
all know where they stand on the
issues. I guess the party might
be tempted to be more “market
radical” if they are encumbered
by a coalition with the Lib Dems,
although it’s difficult to see how
much more “market radical”
the party could be beyond the
current deregulated framework.
The Lib Dems seem to have
embraced the current deregulated/partnership
approach,
so it would be rather strange
if we suddenly saw a Lib Dem
westminster watch iss541.indd 20
manifesto advocating a stronger
regulated framework. Mind you,
the Lib Dems will probably be
spending much of the next year
sorting out their own internal
problems, rather than worrying
about the minutiae of transport
policy.
The real question is what
Labour might propose. Mary
Creagh is happily telling everybody that regulation is the
answer, although, sadly, her
thinking seems to be heavily
based on the views of her political advisers rather than the
people who actually matter – the
passengers – and the consistent
evidence from passenger surveys
which tells us very clearly that
the current system ain’t broke.
Her problem is that there is
simply no money to pay for the
additional costs that a regulated
regime would incur, and I have
been told more than once that
Ed Balls is making it clear that
he’s not prepared to unleash
the purse strings to pay for
this kind of policy. Perhaps we
will see some kind of political
compromise – a ‘regulationlite’ approach that just about
appeases the political imperative
but which also respects Ed Balls’
financial strictures.
But the real question is
whether any political party will
have the courage to reform the
current concessionary travel
system. This would need to be
done early in the new parliament, and every political party
knows full well that the system
is in urgent need of reform.
To be fair to the Lib Dems,
they are the only party that has
previously been honest enough
to recognise this.
Neither Labour nor the
Sadly, her thinking seems to be based
on the views of her advisers rather than the
consistent evidence from passenger surveys
that says the current system ain’t broke Conservatives have yet dared
question the principle of a
universal concessionary fare
regime. Given the on-going
public expenditure constraints,
it would be nice to see all parties
accept that the time for reform
of the current concessionary fare
regime is finally upon us.
And what of UKIP? As far as
the UK is concerned the party
does not really matter, as it won’t
have any MPs after the general
election – or at least too few to
notice. But UKIP is now the
largest UK political party in the
European Parliament. Here, the
Party could have a real impact.
By and large British MEPs have
been quite effective in getting
derogations from the more
extreme elements of EU legislation. But it is quite possible that
UKIP will adopt a simple policy
of just blocking legislation come
what may, and that might require
different tactics to be adopted by
the Confederation of Passenger
Transport, and others, in their
engagement strategies with the
European Commission and
European Parliament.
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Your Platform
A digest of this week’s mailbox
Pride needs no
introduction
The Whisperer was
amused to receive a
press release from
National Express
West Midlands
regarding their proud role in
Birmingham Pride, that didn’t once mention what the Pride
parade is… only that it’s ‘watched by tens of thousands of
people’, and ‘one of the biggest events in the city’s calendar’.
Good on them for taking part though.
The Letter of the Week will receive an 8GB USB
memory stick (pictured) courtesy of Distinctive
Systems - the leading
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A career send-off like
no other for Ian Manning
Pack crisps next time
Motts Travel recently took the brave step of asking tour
drivers what their funniest moments on the road have been.
During an 18-35s tour of New Zealand in the 1980s, the
drivers decided that after a night in the hotel bar, they were
hungry. The nearest eatery was too far away to walk to, so
naturally, they piled onto the coach.
In the morning, the drivers were bemused to find the
coach wasn’t where they’d parked it the afternoon before.
Slowly they remembered their ‘munchies’ in the night, but
still had no idea where they’d left it.
They did what any good coach driver would do: they told
the passengers that they’d hidden it overnight, and the first to
find it would win a dozen ‘stubbies’.
Eventually the coach was found, parked very tightly, but
neatly, between two large trees. The drivers were delighted to
find it totally intact and undamaged.
Though they did admit they had a “helluva job” getting it
out again. No word on how much they’d had to drink in that
bar...
Watch out!
These signs have been put up
around Liverpool Street while
Crossrail work continues.
You’d think people would see a
double-decker before they saw the
sign.
Anyway, The Whisperer thinks the
sign would look great in the office
of a hard-core busman, next to his
die-casts.
Ian ‘deserves nothing less’ after 11 years leading Stagecoach West
For those who missed it, the running day held on Saturday
31 May to mark the retirement of Ian Manning from his post
as Managing Director of Stagecoach West was a resounding
success (routeone, News, 30 April).
The ambitious programme, which saw 25 classic vehicles
replace their modern counterparts on Cheltenham and
Gloucester services for the day, was professionally organised
and a credit to Ian and the whole team at Stagecoach West.
The combination of Ian’s invited friends and colleagues
who drove and conducted the vehicles, with regular
platform staff also acting as conductors, gave the whole
event special meaning.
Aside from the usual contingent of bus enthusiasts, the
day captured the enthusiasm of the local population, with
many turning out especially just to ride the old buses –
making the occasion a commercial success too.
I am sure that Ian’s last journey at 2040hrs from
Gloucester to Cheltenham, behind the wheel of the only
remaining AEC-engined RML Routemaster, followed by
four fully loaded duplicates all from the 1950s and ‘60s will
linger long in the memory of all who were present, not least
Ian himself, who deserved nothing less.
Peter Nash,
Former Head of Commercial Policy,
Stagecoach UK Bus,
Macclesfield
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Skydiving for Poppy Appeal
Tomorrow (5 June), our driver Phil and
myself are stupidly going to jump out of an
aeroplane at 13,000ft, with the parachute
not opening until 2,000ft (hopefully). This
will be done in Roses, Spain, on our coach
holiday.
But this is all for a good cause.
We are raising money for the Royal British
Legion’s Poppy Appeal, as this is the 100th
anniversary of the Great War, recognising
the invaluable work the appeal does for past
and present British servicemen.
All donations will be greatly received,
large or small.
To donate to our charity event, simply
visit our JustGiving page at www.justgiving.
com/karl-brazier
Alternatively, you can send a cheque to
our office at Jay & Kay Coach Tours, 8 The
Parade, Crayford Way, Crayford, Kent DA1
4JA – made payable to Jay & Kay Coach
Tours.
Although the JustGiving page has only a
very small amount donated so far, with our
fundraising efforts, we have already raised
around £2,500.
Please help us to help those who protect
us.
Karl Brazier,
Managing Director,
Jay & Kay Coach Tours,
Crayford, Kent
10 years’ success for Mortons
Last month saw Mortons Travel Ltd of
Hampshire celebrate 10 years in the industry.
We marked this milestone achievement by
throwing a party for our staff and respected
suppliers, in addition to revealing a special
anniversary-liveried Optare Olympus 100seat tri-axle double-decker.
The 2009 vehicle has received the
cherished registration M10 ANV and had
its original livery adapted with new gold
insignia. The anniversary livery was due to
be applied to a new Van Hool TX16 coach
but unfortunately its delivery has been
delayed.
Founded with just one pre-owned
but highly desirable Van Hool coach in
April 2004, we now operate a fleet of 25
immaculate modern vehicles across North
Hampshire and Berkshire. Coaches are
predominantly DAF-based, either Bova
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their thoughts of the week on
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Futuras or Van Hools, and nearly all bought
new. Capacity is the name of the game at
Mortons, as most vehicles seat 57 or more
and operate alongside seven tri-axle 100-seat
double-deck coaches.
The key to our success has been a niche in
operating high-capacity vehicles, but backed
by key factors including first-class customer
service and attention to detail. The results
are evident, as 85% of our work is now repeat
business, with minimal advertising.
None of this could have been achieved,
however, without the input of our staff.
Customer care starts the moment the
customer’s call is answered. Employing the
right people has never been a problem, as
we pay an hourly rate way in excess of the
industry norm.
Owning and operating a coach company
was a lifelong ambition for me. Demand for
our services continues to grow, so the prime
expectation is one of continued success.
Adrian Morton,
Director,
Mortons Travel Ltd,
Tadley, Hampshire
Getting into the community
Sussex Bus is starting a new community
engagement initiative to get out and about
into the local community and support new
development plans for the business. The
first of these activities was a Bus Surgery in
Burgess Hill, held last Wednesday (28 May)
at the old Barcena Bar.
We recognise that we need to get involved
with our customers and find out their
views on what they want from their local
services. The Bus Surgery at Burgess Hill
gave customers an opportunity to come
along and meet the managers and share their
thoughts.
This is the start of our community
engagement while we build a better bus
service for Burgess Hill and the rest of our
network.
In the interests of consistency we also
invited Metrobus and Compass Bus to the
event, so that customers could speak about
all services that may affect them.
Russell Stepe,
Managing Director,
Sussex Bus,
Burgess Hill, Sussex
Pats Coaches Ltd
Just about to take delivery of a 60
plate 14m Scania Omniexpress
with 63 seats, full executive, if
anyone has any large groups
need moving give us a call
28 May
Pulham’s Coaches
Today we’ve said a fond farewell
& good luck to the lovely George
Smallman who has driven for
Pulhams for over 30 years.
29 May
John Bickerton
@johnbickerton
Changing the battery pack on
one of our hybrids - it’s a bit
more than an AA battery, but it is
rechargeable!
30 May
Geoff Cross @gac86
Our buses in Lichfield are
wearing yellow ribbons today
to celebrate the life of Stephen
Sutton #ThumbsupforStephen
30 May
DTE
URGENT! Driver required
tomorrow for a 7 day tour to
Monschau, Germany – driver’s
passport expired!
30 May
Lothian Buses
@on_lothianbuses
Good luck to everyone at
@EdinburghTrams today. We’re
sure you will have a great day :)
#readytoroll
31 May
Revel Mini Bus Service
Does anyone know the address
for a place in Slough that fits
Eminox LEZ exhaust systems
please? Required urgently
1 June
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#BackToSchool tomorrow,
remember your bus passes
kids :)
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Anniversary | Yourbus
Five years’
hard work
In 2009 Scott Dunn founded Yourbus, running
seven secondhand Dennis Darts in Nottingham.
From the start, he focused on one thing:
delivering a high-quality service. Now Yourbus
is a business on two continents that’s set to turn
over £35m this year. Tim Deakin discovers more
1. Scott Dunn,
39, founded
Yourbus five
years ago
Until now, Scott Dunn has
been content to keep Yourbus’
considerable achievements under
the radar. Based in Heanor, it
celebrated its fifth anniversary on
Sunday (1 June).
Yourbus embraces Scott’s views
on business in general: get the job
done properly, and don’t make a
fuss about it.
With that mantra in mind,
it would be easy for the rest of
industry to be unaware of what
Yourbus has accomplished since it
was founded in June 2009. It was
born indirectly as a result of the sale
of the Dunn family’s Dunn-Line
business to Veolia in 2006, as Scott
explains.
“Within a few days of the sale
I knew I wouldn’t fit in at a big
group,” he says. “But I had to work a
year’s notice with Veolia, and I also
had a three-year restriction on what
I could do elsewhere. That meant
I couldn’t found my own business
until 2009.”
Following his eventual departure
from Veolia, Scott spent some time
assisting his brother Simon, MD
of Rotala, and was particularly
involved in building up the
Diamond business in the West
Midlands. “We sold Dunn-Line
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on 1 April 2006. On 1 April 2009,
I applied for an O-Licence of my
own. Yourbus started trading on 1
June that year.”
Starting strongly
The fledgling Yourbus was based in
Hucknall, and began by competing
with another operator between
Bulwell and Nottingham using
seven mid-life Dennis Darts. Scott
remained involved with Rotala at
this point, but as an engineer by
trade he was handling maintenance
of the Darts in the evening and at
weekends.
Growth came quickly, in both the
commercial and tendered markets.
From the outset a strong focus was
placed on delivering a high-quality,
friendly service. Before launch, the
Darts were refurbished and painted
into Yourbus’ distinctive magentabased scheme.
The first step change for Yourbus
came 18 months later, in the form
of National Express work. “It never
formed part of the strategy at the
start, but it was an opportunity that
we had to take,” says Scott, adding
that scheduled coaching also set
Yourbus up for the next stage in its
expansion, which was to come later.
“We had to buy 16 new Levantes
2. Heanor
Gate depot is
completely selfsufficient
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3. New livery
coming with 10
Euro 6 Citaros
4. All
systems are
computerised to
reduce costs
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when the business was just 18
months old. We had about 20 buses
at that point; things were ticking
over nicely. We nearly doubled the
fleet, and it was a big change.”
Its speed of expansion meant
Yourbus had outgrown its Hucknall
base nearly a year before the
National Express work was won.
It bought two adjacent plots on
Heanor Gate Industrial Estate,
which were combined to form a
depot with a large parking area.
Heanor Gate remains the base
for Yourbus’ 94 vehicles, and it is
in many ways a textbook example
of a tight, efficient coach and bus
operating centre. “We’ve built
everything here,” Scott explains.
“I dug the foundations myself one
weekend with a JCB, and concreted
them and the garage floor.”
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“We’ve also got one young guy in
the traffic office who only started
driving for us nine months ago. He’s
shown the initiative and he wants to
advance. This industry is wide open
to people like that.”
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Facilities in the maintenance area
include waste oil salvage, which is
then used to heat the wash and fuel
shed during the winter. Rainwater
is collected for use by the two drivethrough washes, and all fluids can
be accessed only by using a vehiclespecific fob, allowing Yourbus to
identify any members of the fleet
which may be consuming more than
they should.
A rolling brake tester unit is
present, as is an air-conditioning
servicing unit, a spray booth and the
capability to rebuild all mechanical
units. At the time of routeone’s visit,
the engine from a Volvo B9R used
on National Express work was in
the process of being overhauled by
Yourbus’ engineers.
Being based in Heanor has its
benefits. “We’re a big employer in
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the town, and we’re important to
local people,” Scott continues.
“The key thing for us is that we
want to be a local business, and have
staff who want to stay with us. If you
take local people, train them and
give them a steady career, they’ll
stick with you.
“We’ve grown during a recession,
which has allowed us to attract and
retain good staff.”
For the past two-and-a-half years
Yourbus has trained drivers to PCV
standards, and one demographic it
has been particularly successful in
attracting is the under-30 segment.
“We even have some drivers
under 21 working for us,” Scott
says, explaining that one is his son
Jack, 19, who balances studies at
Loughborough University with time
behind the wheel.
Express growth
By the end of 2011 Yourbus’
National Express commitment
had grown to 55 coaches. It added
outstations in Bradford and
Durham to accommodate fuelling
and layovers, and this rapid growth
had whetted Scott’s appetite for
more.
“By then we’d grown the business
and could buy new buses, so we
standardised all our commercial
routes on Mercedes-Benz Citaros,”
he explains. Today more than 40 of
the type are in the fleet. “The Citaro
is built like a car and is exceptionally
smooth for passengers.”
The Citaros are employed on
commercial routes based in Derby
and Nottingham, both easily
accessed from Heanor. The two
cities are well-served by established
and competent operators
Nottingham City Transport and
Trent Barton, and picking Citaros
reinforces an important competitive
point.
“We have to differentiate,” Scott
continues, which is why the Citaro
was chosen. All are fitted with Wi-Fi
as standard – making Yourbus the
first operator in the region to offer
it on all its commercial routes. He
adds that while the Citaro may have
a high initial purchase price, there is
little difference with other models
in respect to total cost of ownership.
High operational standards have
paid dividends, particularly more
recently. “Over the last nine months
we’ve doubled our passenger
numbers,” he says. “We’ve got
a graph to track volumes and it
continually rises.
“December was a very good
month, as it always is, but it’s
normally followed by a lull in
January and February. But we
grew in both, despite operating no
additional mileage. 2014 so far has
been exceptionally strong.” The
most recent figures, for mid-May,
show a weekly total of 130,000
passengers.
All in-house
It isn’t just maintenance and
painting which is handled entirely
in-house. As Marketing Manager,
John Everill is also responsible
for printed publicity and website
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8 design, but in both cases the casual
observer could be excused for
thinking production had been
handled by a third-party.
Part of Yourbus’ marketing
strategy is its Genie smartcard.
Genie can act as both a stored-value
card and a period pass, and can be
topped up on-bus in £5 increments.
A discount of 20% is offered to
Genie users buying single or return
tickets, and Scott is confident that it
has played a major part in Yourbus’
growth.
It hasn’t entered into a price war
with others, however. “We market
ourselves on quality and frequency,”
he says. “And because we do that, I
believe we’re growing the market as
a whole. The competition may have
lost out in the short term, but they,
like us, should grow over the long
haul.”
It has eyes on further growth later
this year. Ten Euro 6 Citaros have
been ordered for autumn delivery,
and will be for expansion, rather
than replacing older stock. They
will further reduce the average fleet
age, which is an industry-leading
three-and-a-half years.
To help celebrate Yourbus’ fifth
anniversary, the new Citaros will
carry a revised livery, based on the
existing magenta but incorporating
silver and white and designed
by John Everill. “All further new
vehicles will be painted like that,”
says Scott, who adds that it will also
be expanded across the rest of the
fleet in time.
“The new Citaros will enhance
some existing routes. The buses
they displace will be given a month’s
‘grace’ while we refurbish and
rebrand them, and then they will be
used to launch some new work.”
Four baskets
Expanding the commercial network
is the current focus. This follows
rapid growth of the National
Express arm of the business, but
there is one other part which makes
up the whole in the UK. That
is a tendered network operated
on behalf of Derbyshire County
Council, which takes Yourbus as far
as Ashbourne and Matlock.
Scott explains that the contracted
work forms almost a stand-alone
part of the business, one which has
a different emphasis.
“Tenders are operated on a cost
leadership basis. We have to be lean,
but we still run high-quality buses
on them in the form of a number of
Wrightbus StreetLites.
“They’re better on fuel, and
have low maintenance costs
because they’re modern. Tenders
are all about operating in a lean
and efficient manner.” Although
contracted services don’t enjoy
the Citaros and Wi-Fi that the
commercial base does, passengers
can still take advantage of the
discount offered to Genie smartcard
users.
Scott sees potential for ongoing
growth of the East Midlands
commercial network, and doesn’t
Citaros chosen
for commercial
work; all have
Wi-Fi
rule out expanding into other parts
of the country via acquisition – but
only if standards match. He isn’t
willing to compromise on quality,
and throughout routeone’s visit
stressed Yourbus’ commitment to
operating to the highest possible
standard.
One area identified as having
potential is a little further away.
Scott purchased Sydney, Australiabased Telford’s Group earlier this
year (routeone, News, 18 April), an
84-vehicle coach and bus operator
with a strong base of work.
Telford’s, he says, “is a really good
business which provides the kind
of opportunity we don’t see in the
UK.”
Entering the Australian market
has been on the cards for two years,
and Scott and his family have since
moved to Sydney. He spends one
week per month in England.
“Yourbus is stable. It’s more
important that I’m in Australia,
which is why my family and I
moved there. At Heanor I have
people in place that I trust to run
the business.” Scott’s main functions
during his monthly sojourns in
England are to oversee high-level
decisions and focus on growth.
“If we weren’t growing, I might
come back every two months. But
we are, and I need to understand
what’s happening. We have a video
conferencing system which allows
Heanor to communicate with
Sydney via Skype. All our phones
are ADSL, so calls between the two
are internal.”
Yourbus’ MD is Steve Ward, a
former Dunn-Line manager who
has been with Yourbus since day
one. “I’ve known Steve for 25 years,”
says Scott. “He’s part of the reason
we have a strong business: the good,
solid people who can look after
everything.”
There is much to be said for that,
and Yourbus has clearly been built
on a combination of hard work, the
right priorities, and a little luck, as
Scott is happy to admit. “I’ve been
lucky. I’ve been in the right places at
the right times, but I’ve also picked
the right opportunities.
“Five years ago, I never thought
we’d get this far,” says the man who
has built a group which, including
its Australian operations, is set to
turn over £35m this year. But while
the fifth anniversary of Yourbus
may give a brief opportunity to look
back on what has been achieved so
far, the focus is very much on the
future.
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Technology | M-ticketing
A paperless
solution
With on-board Wi-Fi a growing presence on
buses and coaches, the passenger experience
continues to develop through the adoption by
many operators of m-ticketing. Cory Varney talks
to those operators who offer m-ticketing, as well
as the providers behind the systems
1. First’s launch
of m-ticketing
demonstrated
how times have
changed
2. Passenger
only needs to
show their phone
to the driver
Mobile ticketing, quite simply, allows
passengers to buy tickets for their bus
or coach journey through their mobile
phone, before showing it to the driver
for validation.
It means passengers no longer have
to worry about making sure they have
the right change or looking after paper
tickets – all they need is their mobile
phone.
It’s that line of thinking that led
First to adopt m-ticketing in March
this year, rolling it out across several
operating companies in the last few
months. To use it, passengers simply
download a free app, the First Bus
App, from Apple or Android and pay
for m-tickets as and when they need
to. Managing Director Giles Fearnley
says: “Research and feedback from the
First Bus App indicated a real appetite
among customers for alternative
cashless methods of payment.
“The one thing that people
never leave at home is their mobile
phone. We decided to pursue a
mobile ticketing option, confident
in the knowledge that it’s what our
customers want.”
Obvious solution
Safeguard Coaches is another
operator that offers m-ticketing. MD
Andrew Halliday explains why: “To
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make it easier for people to access
our services, particularly younger
people who we’re trying to appeal
increasingly to – the mobile phone
generation really. It’s all a passenger
benefit, and that is how we see it.”
Gareth Stevens, Business
Development Manager for Cardiff
Bus, says offering m-ticketing
stemmed from improving the
passenger experience. “We’ve had
our Iff smartcard in operation for
a number of years and are always
looking to improve the number of
methods in which customers can pay
for their bus travel,” he says.
“In addition to looking at advances
in ticket machines to facilitate the
latest payment options, such as wave
and pay, m-ticketing was a natural
thing to consider.”
M-ticketing is operational across
the Go-Ahead Group. Group
Marketing Director Gillian Singh
says: “It was implemented as a
response to customer interactivity
with us, across the internet and e-mail.
It was an obvious step and an obvious
solution.”
Commercial Manager at Abellio,
Alastair Willis, says: “We introduced
m-ticketing to provide an easy and
convenient way for customers to buy
their tickets.
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“We liked the appeal for the
younger market, for whom mobiles
are a part of their lifestyle. Having
your bus ticket on your phone could
help make the bus a more attractive
travel option.”
Commercial Projects Officer at
Lothian Buses, Stevie Chambers,
says customer research had shown an
appetite for m-ticketing. “We believed
with the right product set, m-ticketing
would encourage users to travel more
often.”
For Eastleigh-based Velvet, MD
Phil Stockley says: “As a new start-up
company in 2008, we were keen
to explore any customer service
initiatives that would help us appear
innovative and forward-thinking.”
The options
He says that the key benefits are
“reduced boarding time, a saving
in paper from ticket rolls, and
the opportunity for customers to
identify the products that suit them,
and buy them in the more relaxed
environment of their home or office.”
Alastair Willis adds that the main
benefits for Abellio are the ability
to introduce new ticketing products
which can be paid for using cards,
without the need to have a travel
shop. “It is also very easy to provide
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special offers and new products,
without significant changes to ticket
machines.”
M-ticketing can also sit comfortably
alongside existing smartcard options.
Says Stevie Chambers of Lothian
Buses: “We believed that, with the
right product set, m-ticketing would
encourage users to travel more
often. Crucially, we didn’t want our
m-ticketing product to compete with
our already popular season ticket
smartcard, Ridacard. Instead, we
targeted m-ticketing at those of our
customers who currently buy Single
or Day tickets on-bus, with cash.”
The major suppliers of m-ticketing
are Corethree and Mobile Onboard.
Mobile Onboard’s Sales and
Marketing Manager, Katie Luckwell,
outlines why mobile ticketing is a
useful solution. “It’s there for the
passenger to save them time and
money, as well as reducing the time,
effort and cash-handling requirements
for the operator as well.”
Regarding installation, Katie
says: “With our solution, there’s no
equipment needed. Operators can
be set up in a very small amount of
time – if they wanted, we could have
an operator set up on mobile ticketing
in days.
“From receiving a sign-up pack,
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all we need is their ticket description
and pricing and we can get them set
up. The set-up cost is very low, often
under £1,000.”
A useful feature of Mobile
Onboard’s system is that it does
not use a mobile app, nor require a
passenger to have a smartphone.
Wallet’s online
“All of our mobile ticketing is done
through HTML5 web app,” says
Katie. “As long as the passenger has an
internet-enabled phone, even an older
mobile, they can use m-ticketing.”
Passengers sign up online, which
only takes a couple of minutes, upload
a photo of themselves, buy their ticket
and then download it to their phone.
“It’s got a picture of the passenger
and all the ticket details, including
when the ticket was issued and when
it expires. It’s got security background
features and a 2D embedded QR
code.”
The driver checks the ticket’s
expiry date and validity and then lets
the passenger on.
“You’re reducing paper use,
potential litter and boarding times, so
it’s really very simple,” says Katie.
Another feature Mobile Onboard
offers is the ‘mobile wallet’, enabling
passengers to upload money to their
m-ticketing account and make ondemand ticket purchases.
“If you decide to catch a bus and
think, ‘I want to buy a ticket’, you
simply log onto your account and
the money is already there,” says
Katie. “You don’t have to worry about
putting in your credit card details
or your pin. You just buy your ticket
straight away.”
Other operators have chosen to
provide a mobile app from which to
buy tickets, including First and Arriva.
Corethree offers a range of solutions
for m-ticketing, and its solutions more
commonly include mobile apps for
buying m-tickets, such as First’s Bus
App.
Corethree’s systems typically take
8-10 weeks to deploy from a detailed
specification, says Richard Stevenson,
Product Specialist at Corethree.
Another benefit of m-ticketing is
the recording of passengers, Katie
explains. “Operators can see who
is buying their tickets. If you’ve got
passengers purchasing their tickets
from the driver, the operators have no
idea who these people are.
“With mobile, we have details of
people who are purchasing tickets,
so that every time a ticket is sold,
the operator will be notified of who
bought that ticket, their e-mail,
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03/06/2014 09:37
Technology | M-ticketing
“Driver feedback has been positive
regarding the clarity of mobile tickets
versus paper.” Their positivity is
echoed by operators.
3. M-ticketing
apps can
include other
information,
such as maps
3
8 mobile number, and how they paid.
“It helps the operator if they want
to market to their customers.”
Passengers love it
The purpose of m-ticketing is to
serve the customer, to make their life
easier as well as appealing to a wider
demographic. A number of operators
cited the younger generation, but
mobile phone use has rapidly
increased among all age groups.
Feedback is positive, showing
that many customers have taken to
m-ticketing.
First aims to have all operating
companies introducing mobile
ticketing in 2014, with Worcestershire
and Aberdeen among the first places
where it has been launched.
“Demand so far has been really
encouraging and we’re very confident
that it will attract new customers to
the bus, and persuade infrequent
users to use the bus more often,”
Giles Fearnley says. “So far feedback
has been almost exclusively positive.
Young people especially seem to have
embraced the new technology, and
the number of users is growing at a
faster rate than we anticipated.”
Phil Stockley says that Velvet has
been delighted with the results so
far. “Customer feedback has been
extremely positive. They see it as a
modern and convenient way to buy
their travel.
“Around a third of our weekly and
monthly season tickets are now sold
on mobile. We have seen increases in
sales across our season ticket range.”
Cardiff introduced mobile ticketing
in October 2013 with day and week
tickets, before adding four-weekly
tickets in January 2014. “We have
seen a very positive take-up and
move to payment via m-ticketing,”
says Gareth Stevens. “The trade up in
4
purchases to four-weekly tickets has
been very encouraging.”
Andrew Halliday says response at
Safeguard has been positive: “There’s
an increasingly committed core of
people who are using it, so they are
obviously liking it.”
At Go-Ahead, Gillian Singh says:
“It has been received well. We have
had tweets and feedback with people
saying they like the simplicity of it. All
operating companies have had very
positive feedback from customers.”
The mood is similarly positive at
Abellio, as Alastair Willis explains:
“We have received very little customer
feedback, which is often a good sign.
We have not seen any problems with
the use or acceptance of the tickets.”
At Lothian, Stevie Chambers says:
“Much of our customer feedback
has been overwhelmingly positive.
We’ve definitely seen an impressive
uptake of mobile ticketing. Usage has
exceeded our expectations.”
Aside from customer response,
mobile ticketing also appears to have
seen a positive response from drivers.
Phil Stockley says: “They like the
saving in boarding time and transfer
of sales off bus, and the fact that they
do not spend too much time on peak
period buses fiddling around with
ticket sales from the on bus machine.”
Says Giles Fearnley: “It makes the
lives of our drivers a little easier –
boarding times will be quicker, for
example. In addition, as more and
more people begin to use mobile
ticketing, our drivers will worry less
about handling cash.”
Cardiff’s Gareth Stevens says:
“I recently drove myself and I was
pleasantly surprised by the number
of people who boarded with a mobile
ticket and how simple the whole
process was.”
At Lothian, Stevie Chambers says:
4. Lothian’s
m-tickets don’t
compromise
existing
smartcard
A worthwhile investment
Phil Stockley of Velvet says: “The
beauty of the system provided by
Mobile Onboard is that it requires
no capital investment; it’s a ‘no-lose’
situation.”
As for First, Giles Fearnley says:
“M-ticketing is great news for
customers; it speeds up boarding
times, customers need not worry
about carrying cash or the correct
change to pay for bus travel, and
customers now have the opportunity
of purchasing bus tickets in advance.
“I know that the ability to
plan ahead and confirm travel
arrangements in advance is a real
benefit.”
Mobile ticketing is on the way to
proving a worthwhile investment for
Cardiff, according to Gareth Stevens.
“It hasn’t quite paid for itself yet, but
it won’t be long. We expect to issue
our 50,000th ticket soon. The fact
this means cash is taken off the bus
is yet another positive feature to help
reduce the cost of the operation.”
Alastair Willis of Abellio says:
“The initial investment was very low
for the development of the product
and level of use. Its part in reducing
passenger board times has been a
good investment.”
At Safeguard, Andrew Halliday
feels the flexibility of mobile ticketing
is a big benefit for operators.
Safeguard offered a 10% discount
for December and January, something
Andrew says was easy to do through
mobile ticketing. “It’s better than
having to reconfigure all the ticket
machines. All we need to do is tell
Mobile Onboard, and they set it up
for a predefined period of time.
“As long as we tell people what the
voucher code is, they can use it – it’s as
simple as that. It’s very flexible, more
so than paper ticket machines.”
Lothian has seen a return on their
investment in just six months, says
Stevie Chambers. “We launched
mobile ticketing in November last
year, and have sold over 500,000
tickets.”
Stevie adds: “For operators,
m-ticketing offers far more flexibility
than any other form of ticketing
media, the prospect of which we’ve
only now just begun to explore
commercially.
“We’ve got plenty more ideas up
our sleeve for how we take m-ticketing
forward.”
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Livery Competition 2014
With the 2014 routeone Livery Competition now into its second month, interest remains
sky-high among coach and bus operators keen to see their scheme crowned the best in
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Entries for the 2014 routeone Livery
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49. Moray Council – minicoach/minibus
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Deliveries
Harry Shaw
Scania K360IB Irizar
Long-standing customer Harry Shaw has
received another Irizar Century-bodied
K360IB, supplied by Scania Great Britain
(01909 210210).
The 12m coach has 49 seats with threepoint belts, a DVD player, centre sunken
toilet, and Alcoa Dura-Bright alloy wheels.
It has a nine-litre Scania Euro 5 engine
developing 360bhp which drives through a
two-pedal automated Opticruise gearbox.
Coventry-based Harry Shaw bought
the first Irizar Century-bodied Scania
produced, in 1993, and still finds it a
good buy today, says Director John Shaw.
“We do like the Scania Irizar Century
combination, as it’s a great workhorse.”
Horseman Coaches
Volvo B9R Plaxton Panthers
Haines Minicoaches
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Ferqui
Now in service with Haines Minicoaches
is a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with 16-seat
Ferqui Soroco bodywork, supplied by
Connaught PSV (01405 814064).
It has air-conditioning, double glazing
and a large boot, and was exhibited at the
UK Coach Rally.
Added to the Berkshire-based Horseman
Coaches fleet are four Panther-bodied
Volvo B9Rs, supplied by Plaxton (01909
551166).
The 12.6m, two-axle coaches have 53
seats with three-point belts, and a centre
sunken toilet is provided, with a fridge
and servery above. They have been chosen
based on successful operation of earlier
Panthers, including five delivered in 2013.
Says Director of Operations James
Horseman: “We have purchased nearly
30 new Panthers since 2006 and they
have been well tested throughout our
operations.
“They have proved attractive to our
customers and thoroughly reliable, and
therefore we didn’t hesitate to order
another four.
“We have a good working relationship
with Plaxton, built up over many
years. We find it flexible to deal with,
and its products are both reliable and
competitively-priced.”
Alfa Travel
Mercedes-Benz Tourismos
Seven Mercedes-Benz Tourismos have
recently been supplied to Chorley-based
Alfa Travel by EvoBus (02476 626000),
complementing its existing vehicles.
They will be used on Alfa Travel’s extensive
UK holiday programme and have 49 seats
finished in Travel Star Xtra upholstery, which
gives superior passenger comfort. Passengers
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and on-board refreshments are provided.
Safety is provided by the latest systems
including ESP, ASR and Brake Assist,
and power comes from a Euro 5 OM 457
LA engine developing 400bhp which
drives through an eight-speed PowerShift
automated gearbox.
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AUCTION
ADL
AYATS
2004, ADL ENVIRO 300, 41 Seats +
standing, New MOT on completion of sale.
Reduced from £28,000 £20,000, Tel: 01234
710 674
2006, ADL ENVIRO 300, 60 seater, Currently
57 seater + wheelchair, 3 point belts, 12
months MOT, repainted white, destination gear,
recent engine, in good order, owned from new
£29,950+VAT, Tel: 01347 838 990
2003, ADL ENVIRO 300, 44 seats + 27
standees, SLF, 12m £22,000+VAT, Tel:
01342 711 840 email: [email protected]
2001, AYATS ATLAS, Automatic , 53 Seater,
LEZ Compliant, MOT May 2015, MAN engine,
A/C, good condition, well maintained, toilet,
DVD, 2 x monitors, 2 x fridges, drivers door,
tow bar fitted, tables if required. p/p to be
retained £37,500, Tel: 01702 232376
email: [email protected] Mobile:
07974 386077
BMC
2006, BMC FALCON, 40 Seats, Low floor
bus, Cummins engine, MOT January 2015
£12,500+VAT ono, Tel: 01668 219 291
Mobile: 07919 215 905
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2010, ADL ENVIRO 200, 29 seats + standing, 8.9m long, raise/lower front suspension,
manual wheelchair ramp, owned and operated
from new, in white, complete with one full year
MOT, excellent condition for year Tel: 01324
824 146 email: [email protected]
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BOVA
2001, BOVA, Automatic , 72 Seater, 3
point belts, A/C £36,500 ono, Mobile:
07971279597
2008, BOVA, 49 seater, 12m, rear floor
mounted toilet, wheel chair lift, space for four
wheelchairs, Euro 5, low mileage, very good
condition £139,950+VAT, email: gerry@
coachworld.co.uk Mobile: Gerry 07963
717557 Anthony 07730 050043
2005, DAF, SB4000, VAN HOOL T9,
Automatic , 51 Seater, Centre sunken toilet,
A/C full serviced, fridge, boiler, MOT April 2015,
would consider older 57/70 seater in p/x,
excellent condition, £79,000+VAT ono, Tel:
01915 862 136 Mobile: 07802 668667
2001, DENNIS, DART SLF, 28 Seats, ALX
200, MOT/TAX September 2014, RPC, single
door. Call Adam £6,495+VAT ono, Mobile:
07918 649 427
2000, DENNIS, DART SLF, PLAXTON
POINTER, 40 seats + 15 standees, 10.1m,
seat belts fitted to all 40 seats £5,950+VAT,
Tel: 01342 711 840 email: bussales@
southdownpsv.co.uk
1998, DENNIS, JAVELIN, PLAXTON
PREMIERE, 53 seats, LEZ Euro 4, 1 owner
from new, no expense spared on full service
history, double glazed, tidy inside and out,
recent clutch, MOT 2/15, EMINOX 5/15
£15,000+VAT ono, Tel: 01629 582826
email: [email protected]
Mobile: 07855529950
1999, DENNIS, JAVELIN, PLAXTON PREMIERE 350, 49 Seat Exec + Courier, Toilet,
drinks, fridge, MOT May 2015, bodyworks and
mechanics good, sale due to retirement, recent
recon engine £8,500 No VAT ono, Mobile:
07713 039 947 or 07785 524 762
2004, BOVA FUTURA, 49 Seater, Excellent
condition, Used on tour work, Toilet and
servery, Mileage: 344,880 kms. Contact
Wayne Sweeting, brand new MOT £49,000,
Tel: 01234 710 674
DENNIS, JAVELIN, Choice of 2 for sale. 1 x 53
seater 12 months MOT, 1 x 55 seater 5 months
MOT, excellent condition, selling to free up
space in yard £5,000+VAT each, Tel: 01694
771 226
2002, DAF, SB4000, VAN HOOL T9, 49
seats, Reconditioned ZF gearbox with 3 year
warranty, very clean interior, good solid
workhorse, MOT May 15th 2014 so will be
tested, loads of pics on request £33,000
ovno, Tel: 01928 57 27 57
DENNIS
1997, DENNIS, JAVELIN, 55 seats +
courier and driver, Full MOT, seat belts, used
daily. Reduced £9,950+VAT, Tel: 01249 821
821
1997, DAF, BOVA FUTURA, 51 reclining
seats, Toilet, hot & cold water, DVD/CD,
climate control, fridge, 8xCCTV cameras with
display monitor, PA, resent re-trim, MOT April
2015 £19,995+VAT, Tel: 01642 658 194
2008, BOVA MAGIQ, AS-Tronic gearbox, 53
Seater, 13.1 Mtr, alloy wheels, two TV/DVD,
Sat Nav, power cont. door, A/C, double glazed,
curtains, hoover, Euro 5, low tax, will have new
MOT. For further images please visit www.
eastonsholidays.co.uk £120,000+VAT, Tel:
01603 754 253 email: robert@
eastonsholidays.co.uk
1994, DENNIS, JAVELIN, 57 seater, First reg
01/12/94, MOT January 2015, Tax October
2014, lovely interior, radio/pa/DVD, metallic
silver with easy removable vinyls, very well
looked after coach with history £8,500+VAT,
email: [email protected] Mobile: 07886
773 341
2001, DENNIS, DART, PLAXTON MINI
POINTER, Automatic , 27 seats + 17
standees, Wheelchair ramp, new MOT, new
compressor, turbo, airdryer and air system, low
floor, destination equipment. Reduced
£9,000+VAT, Tel: 01249 821 821
DENNIS, JAVELIN, MARCOPOLO, 51 Seats
+ Courier, Up to 6 wheelchairs, lap belts, on
board toilet, towbar, fridge, A/C, 12 CD/DVD,
PA system, new turbo fitted, MOT June 2015,
tax end August. Very versatile, looks and runs
superb £23,000+VAT ono for quick sale,
Tel: 01159 197 593 Mobile: 07752 901
118
1997, DENNIS, LANCE, NORTHERN
COUNTIES PALADIN , 49 Seater + 23
standees, 45 seatbelted, MOT April 2015,
good reliable bus £2,995+VAT, Tel: 01432
356 201 Mobile: 07772 201397
DAF
2000, DENNIS, DART, PLAXTON POINTER,
37 seats, Belted seats, no MOT but good
runner £3,500, Tel: 01668 219 291 Mobile:
07919 215 905
1995, DAF, SB3000, VAN HOOL ALIZEE, 51
seats, One owner from new, toilet, no expense
spared on full service history, double glazed,
tidy inside and out, recent clutch, MOT 12/14
£14,000+VAT ono, Tel: 01629 582826
Mobile: 07855529950
2005, DAF, VAN HOOL , 48 Seater
Executive, A/C, rear mounted W/C, in very
good condition, Test until October 2014
£78,000+VAT, Tel: 01977 661214
1997, DENNIS, DART, CAETANO, 44 seats,
Cummins engine, short MOT, wheel chair
ramp. Call Ian Stocker - Galloway (Suffolk)
£3,500, email: whop@gallowayeuropean.
co.uk Mobile: 07725 080792
1997, DENNIS, DART, PLAXTON, 40 seats,
Cummins engine, short MOT. Call Ian Stocker
- Galloway (Suffolk) £3,500, email: whop@
gallowayeuropean.co.uk Mobile: 07725
080792
1998, DENNIS, DART, 33 seats + standing, R reg, no MOT, no Tax, tidy, drives nice
£4,000+VAT, Tel: 01159 404060 Mobile:
07831846000
1993, DENNIS, JAVELIN, PLAXTON
PREMIERE 350, 53 Seats, Tax & MOT until
September 2014, in daily use £4,250 ono,
Tel: 01225 891 404
1997, DENNIS, JAVELIN GX, BERKHOF
AXIAL, Manual, 53 seats, New respray into
white, new screen, engine fault and misted
side bays, taken in PX Offers + VAT to clear,
07795 347 476
2003, DENNIS, TRIDENT, ALEXANDER, 63
seats. £12,000+VAT - choice 72 seats +
refurb package £25,000+VAT, Full details on
request. Tel: 01342 711 840 email:
[email protected]
To advertise in trader call: 01733 405740
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2000, IVECO, 24 Seater, New semi high
back seats fitted, new MOT, fully seat belted.
Please contact Billy or Craig £2500+VAT, Tel:
01792 462 979
2001, IVECO, 24 Seater, Good condition,
MOT, semi high back seats, fully seat belted.
Please contact Billy or Craig £2,000+VAT,
Tel: 01792 462 979
1998, DENNIS, PLAXTON PREMIERE,
Manual, 49 seats + courier and driver,
Cummins Engine rebuilt January 2011, MOT,
curtains, toilet, seatbelts, good condition inside
and out, in daily use. Reduced £11,500+VAT,
Tel: 01249 821 821
2002, FORD, TRANSIT, 15 seats, PSV spec,
COIF, one owner from new, MOT 2/15, tiday
inside and out, full service history, tachograph
£3,500+VAT, Tel: 01629 582826 email:
[email protected] Mobile:
07855529950
1999, IVECO, 29 Seater, Good condition,
MOT, service spec, seat belted. Please contact
Billy or Craig £1,800+VAT, Tel: 01792 462
979
FIAT
2009, FIAT, DUCATO, 17 Seater, 160
multijet, XLWB HDI, silver good spec, front and
rear A/C arm rests, luggage racks, centre aisle,
blue tooth, 1 owner from new, full service
history £11,495+VAT, Tel: 0208 363 8572
Mobile: 07971 785 390
Ford Transit 430 SHR BUS 17 STR
Body Type: Minibus
Fuel Type: Diesel
Transmission: Manual
Engine Size: 2.2
No. of Doors: 5
Colour: White
Registration: 2012 (12)
Mileage: 24,660
Owners: 1
WAS £18,495 + VAT NOW £15.995 + VAT
2005, IVECO, PLAXTON PARAGON, ZF
automatic , 57 Seats, A/C, DVD system,
immaculate throughout £54,500+VAT,
Mobile: Tom 07753 670745 or Kev 07525
912454
ISUZU
1998, ISUZU, 21 seats, NPR65P, White, will
part exchange for 18-24 seat coach, MOT May
2014 £1,950 possible p/x 18-24 seat, Tel:
01206 823 694 email: enigmatravel@
hotmail.co.uk
FORD
1998, IVECO, BEULAS, 49 seats, DFR
11/3/1998, wheelchair lift POA, Tel: 01508
489 262
IVECO
2012, FORD, TRANSIT, Manual, 17 seater,
2.2 430 SHR BUS, white, 18,700 mileage,
diesel, power steering, remote central locking,
CD/radio player, ABS, traction control, cloth
seat trim, Alarm/immobiliser, service history
£16,000, Tel: 0117 915 9988
Ford Transit 430 High Roof 135ps Euro 5
Body Type: Minibus, Fuel Type: Diesel
Transmission: Manual, Engine Size: 2.2
No. of Doors: 5, Colour: White
Mileage: 11,765,
Owners: 1
Availability: ON SALE NOW
PRICE: £17,995 + VAT
2012, FORD, TRANSIT, Manual, 17 seater,
2.2 430 SHR, white, 12,700 mileage, diesel,
power steering remote central locking, CD/radio
player, ABS, traction control, cloth seat trim,
alarm/immobiliser, service history £16,000,
Tel: 0117 915 9988
2010, FORD, TRANSIT, 17 seats, 2.4d, good
condition, COIF, tacho, MOT April 2015, recent
full service, including A/C re-gas, PAS, E/W,
CL, 145,000 miles hence price. Contact Steve
£8,750+VAT, Tel: 01908 616444 Mobile:
07973662095
2009, IVECO, BEULAS, 55 seats, 12.7Mt,
demountable toilet and 2 extra seats with floor
panel to make a 57 seater coach, full exec,
MOT March 2015 £82,500+VAT ono, Tel:
01668 219 291 Mobile: 07919 215 905
1998, IVECO, EURORIDER, ZF Auto, 51
seats, Marshall Maxi bus body, manual
destination blind, MOT December 2014, sold
as seen, available from end of June 2014
POA, Tel: 01698 792800 or 793506 email:
[email protected]
2004, IVECO, BEULAS, Auto, 51 Seater,
WC, DVD, A/C, drinks boiler, fridge, in
exceptional condition for age, MOT July 2014
£34,500+VAT ono, Tel: 01249 742 000
Mobile: 07717 768 315
Iveco Daily 50C15V
Minibus, Diesel, Manual
Engine size: 3.0
No. of doors: 5
Colour: White
Mileage: 97,011
Owners: 1
£14,995 + VAT
LDV
2005, LDV, CONVOY, 55 plate, front entry
coach built, large panoramic windows, wood
dash, euroliner wheel trims, very tidy inside and
out, 12 months MOT, this is the intercooled
high power model, drives superb, low mileage.
Call Tim £4,999 may p/x, Tel: 01404 475 02
Mobile: 07790 966 667
2002, LDV, CONVOY, 17 seats, High roof,
high back seats, Diesel turbo, PSV COIF, full
conversion, tacho, drop step, rear heater, Tax
30th September 2014, MOT 26th September
2014, 116,000 miles, full service history, good
condition, one owner £2,795+VAT, Tel:
01302 711 217 Mobile: 07776 381 687
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2010, LDV, MAXUS, 14 coach high back
seats, 3.5 120 2WD, Stanford Conversion,
A/C, alloy wheels, floor carpet, black tinted
windows, side door with electric step, MOT till
May 2015, low mileage at only 88k! More
information novabussing.co.uk/LDV
£10,250+VAT, Tel: 020 7118 1140
1999, MAN, NEOPLAN TRANSLINER, 49
Seater, retractable seat belts, extremely good
condition, very attractive, blue upholstery,
footrests, magazine nests, seat trays, armrests,
MOT October 2014, aircraft type lockers, toilet,
boiler, servery, driver fans, sunblind, DVD with
2 monitors, A/C, microphone (blaupunkt sound
system), courier seat, fridge, smart plain white
coach ready for your vinyls, bargain price
£16,500+VAT possible p/x, Mobile: 07771
682 389
2001, MAN, BERKHOF AXIAL, ZF 6 speed,
34 seats, 10m, recliners, rear WC, rear
servery with fridge etc, plain white exterior,
radio, PA, monitors etc, A/C, fantastic coach,
MOT December 2014 £24,995+VAT ono,
Tel: 01827 311744 email: mike@
invinciblecoaches.com Mobile: 07442
491617
1999, MERCEDES-BENZ, 412D, 5 speed
manual gearbox, 16 removable seats or 6
wheelchairs, External wheelchair lift,
tachograph fitted, very clean condition, new
MOT June 2015 £2,850+VAT, Tel: 01795
423982 email: andy.bates@chalkwell.
co.uk
MERCEDES-BENZ
2008, LDV, MAXUS, Long MOT, COIF, A/C,
coach layout seating, 3 point belts £5,750,
Mobile: Kevin 07583 334455 Steve 07966
290883
2010, MAN, MCV EVOLUTION, 41 seats/23
standees, A66, MOT’d until Sept 2014,
320,000 kms average mileage,ZF 6 speed
automatic gearbox with Topodyne, E-Leather
seats throughout, DDA compliant, Mobitec
electronic destination equipmentLOOK CCTV
internal and external camera system fitted,
Genius Green Road System fitted, Euro 4,
Excellent condition - 5 AVAILABLE POA, Tel:
01698 792 800 or 01698 793 506 email:
[email protected]
WANTED
MERCEDES-BENZ ALL SIZES,
ALL MODELS
FROM 8 SEATER TO 80 SEATER
FLEETS OR SINGLE
GOOD OR BAD CONDITION
TOP PRICES PAID
t: 01322 290921
f: 01322 290049
e: [email protected]
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LEYLAND
LEYLAND, OLYMPIAN, auto box, 94 seat,
Triaxle, Cummins engine £7,000 ono, Mobile:
07827870576
MERCEDES-BENZ l MERCEDES-BENZ l MERCEDES-BENZ
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LDV, MAXUS, 2007 & 2008 - choice of 3,
A/C, long MOT. £4,950, Mobile: Kevin
07583 334455 Steve 07966 290883
MERCEDES-BENZ l MERCEDES-BENZ l MERCEDES-BENZ
LDV
2002, MAN, NOGE, Manual, 49 seat exec,
LEZ Compliant, 24.400 tri axle, centre toilet,
climate control, DVD, MOT February 2015,
taxed July, drives superb, excellent condition,
real head turner £19,950+VAT ono, email:
[email protected] Mobile: 07795 347
476
1988, LEYLAND, TIGER, semi automatic,
69 seats, Choice of 2, MOT until February and
April 2015, sold as seen, available end of June
2014 POA, Tel: 01698 792800 or 793506
2007, MERCEDES-BENZ, 0816, SITCAR
BELUGA , 25 reclining seats + crew, LEZ
compliant, Seat belts, 1x table + seat back
tables, refrigerator, Sutrak Air Conditioning,
huge luggage boot, one owner and low
mileage. Westbus Coach Services
£47,950+VAT, Tel: 0208 572 6348
2001, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814, 24 seats +
courier, Reading lights, rack blowers, luggage
racks, PA system & radio, MOT July 2014.
Plain white. £9,500 + VAT, Tel: 01228 711
690 Mobile: 07957 863 024
2006, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814, 24 & 28
Seater, CHOICE OF 2, 3 point belts, reading
lights/rackblowers, large boots, CD/radio,
Contact Grayway Coaches of Wigan
£26,000+VAT ono Each, Mobile: 07793
105 814
2000, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814, PLAXTON
BEAVER 2, 33 Seats, 3-point belts, perfect for
school trips and private hire, very tidy
throughout, test December 2014
£11,500+VAT, Tel: 01606 786 833 Mobile:
07841 110 426
MAN
1998, MAN, CAETANO SALVADOR, 35
reclining seats, DFR 24/5/1998 POA, Tel:
01508 489 262
1998, MAN, BERKHOF AXIAL, 33 seat
exec, DFR 17/41998, owned since new POA,
Tel: 01508 489 262
2005, MAN, BERKHOF , 35 seat executive,
MOT April 2015, see web site for pictures
www.ausdenclark.co.uk/sales £30,000+VAT,
Tel: 01162 629 492
1995, MAN, CAETANO, 49 seats, Drives and
looks great, can be described as very good
condition for its age, belted coach seats, toilet
and drinks machine or will upseat to 53, MOT
until May 2015 and taxed, private plate not
included. Call Rob at Summercourt Travel
Newquay Offers in region of £10,950+VAT,
Tel: 01726 861 108 Mobile: 07970 211
594
2001, MAN, BERKHOF , 39 seat executive,
MOT March 2015, see web site for pictures
Tel: 01162 629 492
Mercedes Sprinter 411 17st,tacho, floor tracking & COIF
Body Type: Minibus
Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Size: 2.2
No. of Doors: 5
Colour: White
Mileage: 83,494
Owners: 1
£9,995 + VAT
BEAVER 2, Manual, 33 new seats, 3 point
belts, racks, power door £11,500+VAT, Tel:
01606 786 833 Mobile: 07841 110 426
To advertise in routeone call: 01733 405730
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205, MERCEDES-BENZ, RIADA, 5 speed
manual, 22 seats + crew, Mileage 329,282,
DVD/CD player, manual tachograph, MOT
January 2015, this vehicle has been used daily
on a regular contract and maintained to a very
high standard, 1 owner from new, sale due to
brand new vehicle on order £24,000, Tel:
01923 247 765
2004, MERCEDES-BENZ, SPRINTER 413
CDI, Manual, 17 seater or 11 passengers
& 2 wheelchairs, LEZ Compliant, Front
entry, 3 point lap and diagonal belts, newly
fitted under floor tail lift, COIF/PSV MOT, large
panoramic windows, analogue tachograph,
blown air to rear seat through overhead racks,
individual reading lights, Euro wheel trims,
245000 kms, very good condition, new MOT
£11,500+VAT ovno, Mobile: 07956 833
769
2001, MERCEDES-BENZ, SOROCO, MOT
September 2014, see web site for pictures
Tel: 01162 629 492
BEAVER 2, 33 brand new re-trimmed seats
+ driver, Luggage racks just been repainted,
this vehicle is immaculate, test May 2015
£18,995+VAT, Tel: 01606 786 833 Mobile:
07841 110 426
2002, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814 VARIO, Auto,
29 seats, COIF, PSV till August 2014, choice
of 2 PLUS a 2003 33-seater £9,995+VAT,
Tel: 0208 363 8572 Mobile: 07971 785
390
2008, MERCEDES-BENZ, SPRINTER, 10
seats + driver, LEZ, DVD stereo system, A/C,
tables, inverter, leather seats, huge luggage
space, black tint rear windows, very good,
clean condition, ready for work £18,000+VAT,
Tel: 0161 775 0800 email: operations@
travel-master.co.uk Mobile: 07980 611
597
1998, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814D, AUTOBUS
NOUVELLE, Manual, 29 Seats, 3 point
belts, air door, large boot, MOT February 2015
£7,500+VAT, Tel: 01778 342 224
1998, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814, ALEXANDER,
Auto, 27 coach seats, 3 point belts, test
September 2014 £7,500+VAT, Tel: 01606
786 833 Mobile: 07841 110 426
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2005, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814D, OPTARE
NOUVELLE SR, Auto, 33 seats, High back
seats, A/C, MOT April 2015, owned by us
since April 2009, only 179k miles, excellent
condition and very reliable £42,000+VAT,
07734233277
2002, MERCEDES-BENZ, 814D, OPTARE,
27 reclining seats, DFR 25/6/2002 POA, Tel:
01508 489 262
CDI, 16 seats, Extended executive Mini Bus,
sprint shift gearbox, coach back with large
boot, conference style back seats with tables,
reading lights, forced air blowers, climate
controlled air con, carpeted throughout,
curtains, 3 x drop down DVD screens, CD
player, radio/cassette, reversing sensors, very
clean and smart vehicle £14,995+VAT,
Mobile: 07980294410
CDI, 16 seater, LEZ compliant, Extended
body, with panoramic windows, large boot, full
A/C, reclining moquette seats, analogue tacho,
MOT June 2014, taxed until January 2015
£11,999+VAT, Tel: 01634 852 020 email:
[email protected]
2008, MERCEDES-BENZ, SPRINTER, 6
Speed Manual Gear Box, Front entry
minicoach, new shape, 12 months MOT, 12
months MOT, taxed, COIF, newish conversation,
nicely done, panoramic tinted windows, electric
windows, remote central locking, CD player
etc, drives lovely, can get painted in plain white
at extra cost if required but actually looks nice
in yellow, may p/x £12,999+VAT, Tel: 01404
475 02 email: parnell-coaches@supanet.
com Mobile: 07790 966 667
2004, MERCEDES-BENZ, VARIO, PLAXTON
CHEETAH, 29 Seats + Courier, 54 Plate,
new paint job, new MOT & tax £34,995+VAT
ono, Tel: 01259 215 560 Mobile: 07785
525 381
2005, MERCEDES-BENZ, SPRINTER 616,
Duel purpose spec, new MOT, 3 point seat
belts, semi high back seats, good condition.
Please contact Billy or Craig £17,000+VAT,
Tel: 01792 462 979
BEAVER, 33 seats, Full MOT, service bus
spec. Call Ian Stocker - Galloway (Suffolk)
£12,000, email: [email protected] Mobile: 07725 080792
BEAVER, 31 seats, Full MOT, service bus
spec. Call Ian Stocker - Galloway (Suffolk)
£10,000, email: [email protected] Mobile: 07725 080792
2003, MERCEDES-BENZ, ATEGO, 41 seats
+ courier, 1223, Eurocoach builders Clady,
PLS lift & certified to carry 10 wheelchairs.
Luggage racks, side lockers, boot, PA system,
webasto. MOT to January 2015. Owned by us
from new. £39,500+VAT, Tel: 01228 711
690 Mobile: 07957 863 024
1999, MERCEDES-BENZ, SPRINTER 412D,
Owned since new 8/6/99, 342455 klms, new
MOT used daily, with purpose built trailer
£8,500+VAT, Tel: 01502 730 230
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1999, MERCEDES-BENZ, NOUVELLE,
29 seats, MOT May 2015, see web site
for pictures www.ausdenclark.co.uk/sales
£8,000+VAT, Tel: 01162 629 492
OPTARE
NEOPLAN
2001, MERCEDES-BENZ, VARIO, 29 belted
seats, Taxed until August 2014, MOT until
March 2015, well maintained and in daily use
£7,500+VAT, Tel: 01626 833 664 Mobile:
07872 839530
2005, MERCEDES-BENZ, ESKER TOURING,
6 speed manual, 41 reclining seats +
courier, 12-14 mpg, Euroliners, PA, CD, DVD,
Webasto, taxed & tested, immaculate, only for
sale due to increase in school contract! May
p/x for 49/53/57 £37,000+VAT, Tel: 01524
272 445 Mobile: 07834 275 102
2004, OPTARE ALERO, Automatic , 12
Seats, LEZ Compliant, A/C, 3 TV’s, DVD,
phone connection, leather, bar area,
Playstation, fridge, privacy windows, 12
months MOT £9,750, Tel: 01245 231 262
1989, NEOPLAN CITYLINER, 6 speed
gearbox, 48 seats + courier, Mercedes V10
engine, kitchen + toilet, 2 new alternators
recently fitted, export enquires welcome
£12,750 or sensible offer, Tel: 01789 740
371
2004, MERCEDES-BENZ, VARIO 614, 54
plate, power door, forced air, CD/DVD, drinks
machine, MOT until August, owned from new,
painted white £12,750 ono, Mobile:
07887479375
2008, OPTARE VERSA, 38 seats, 11.4m,
DDA compliant, Mobitec LED, choice
£55,000+VAT, Tel: 01342 711 840 email:
[email protected]
2005, MERCEDES-BENZ, UNVI TOURING,
41 Seats, TV/audio, pa system, toilet, mileage
750485km, PSV expiry 7th May 2014, Tax
expiry 31st July 2014. Contact Jim/Kevin
£35,000, Tel: 028 8673 7776
1999, MERCEDES-BENZ, NOUVELLE, 33
Seater, Good condition, MOT, 3 point seat
belts, duel spec. Please contact Billy or Craig
£7,000+VAT, Tel: 01792 462 979
PEUGEOT
2003, NEOPLAN EUROLINER, 49/53 seater,
LEZ compliant, Choice of 3, MAN engine,
manual and semi automatic, white good
condition, clean and reliable £47,500+VAT,
Tel: 01202 530200 email: sct@
southcoasttravel.co.uk
Peugeot Expert HDI TEPEE LEISURE
Body Type: MPV
Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Size: 2.0
No. of Doors: 5
Colour: Blue
Mileage: 30,432
Owners: 1
£10,995 + VAT
Seats or 2 Seats + 6 Wheelchair, Power
door, MOT October 2014, good condition, can
email more photos £5,500, Tel: 01695 580
800 email: info@charltonminicoaches.
co.uk
2002, MERCEDES-BENZ, VARIO 814,
PLAXTON BEAVER 2, Auto, 30 High back
seats, 3 point belts, nice paint job, clean & tidy
interior, MOT & tax £15,000+VAT ono, Tel:
01259 215 560 Mobile: 07785 525 381
2010, MERCEDES-BENZ, PLAXTON
CHEETAH, 33 seater, £79,950+VAT ono
may p/x, Mobile: 07887837785
Seater, Service spec, MOT, good condition,
fully seat belted. Please contact Billy or Craig
£9,000+VAT, Tel: 01792 462 979
2003, NEOPLAN STARLINER, 38 seats,
Leather seat around tables, Sky TV, DVD
entertainment system, 7 Screens , toilet
washroom, kitchen with fridge and microwave,
sockets throughout the coach, Automatic Merc
Engine £37,500+VAT, Tel: 0161 775 0800
Mobile: 07445 266345
RENAULT
2001, RENAULT, MASTER, Manual, 14
seats, Rohill Harrier, SLF, wheelchair accessible, destination equipment, MOT April 2015
£3,500+VAT ono, Tel: 01827 311744
Mobile: 07442 491617
2002, MERCEDES-BENZ, NOUVELLE, 33
seats, Very good useable condition inside and
out £12,000 ono, Tel: 02392480446 email:
[email protected] Mobile: 07771 682
389
1999, MERCEDES-BENZ, VARIO 814,
PLAXTON BEAVER 2, Manual, 33 seats +
11 standees, Belted seats, bus spec,
tachograph fitted, a willing and capable
workhorse for the smaller operator and ready to
go on service work, schools and private hires,
private plate is not part of the sale, MOT until
August 2014. Call Rob at Summercourt Travel
Newquay £4,950 or offers considered, Tel:
01726 861 108 Mobile: 07442 493856
seats, L Reg, 4 tables, extra large boot, new
clutch, MOT February 2015 £2,900+VAT
ono, Tel: 0151 933 1016
2007, NEOPLAN TOURLINER, AS-Tronic
gearbox, 49+1+1 Seats, Low mileage
248,000km, lap belts, climate control, centre
toilet, continental door, boiler, fridge, double
glazing, DVD, video, 2 screens, Sat Nav,
reversing camera, drivers compartment, good
tyres, recent paint job, MOT April 2015
£75,000 ono, Tel: 01293781000 Mobile:
07802699289
1998, MERCEDES-BENZ, HISPANO 0404,
51 seats, Easy shift box, retrimmed
recliners,centre WC & drinks, plain white
exterior, radio, PA, monitors etc, A/C, alloy
wheels, MOT August 2014 but can retest if
required £12,500+VAT ono, Tel: 01827
311744 email: mike@invinciblecoaches.
com Mobile: 07442 491617
2008, RENAULT, TRAFFIC DCI 115, 8 Seats,
Wheelchair accessible, one owner from new,
mint condition, mileage 195000km, PSV expiry
26th August 2014, Tax expiry 30th September
2014. Contact Gabriel Kelly £4,500 ono, Tel:
028 8673 6528 Mobile: 0775 211 5254
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belts, sliding side entrance door,
interior lighting.
15 Passenger seats with 4 point
seat belts, underfloor cassette
wheel chair lift, seats on quick
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entrance door with lowered step,
rear quad vent, reversing camera.
£6,995
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17 SEAT MINI COACH
16 passenger seats with 3 point
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17 SEAT LUXURY MINI COACH
2007 LDV MAXUS 12 SEAT
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front entrance with lowered entry
step, parcel racks with individual
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SCANIA
VOLVO
2002, SCANIA, K114, VAN HOOL T9, Auto
gearbox, 51 seats, Headlamp conversion ,
A/C, rear floor mounted WC/Washroom,
continental door, very tidy throughout. Choice
of 2 identical vehicles, new vehicles arriving,
we have owned these vehicles for 8 year
£42,000+VAT ono, Mobile: 07753 670
745
2005, SCANIA, IRIZAR PB, 49/51 Seats,
TV/audio, pa system, de-mountable toilet,
mileage 672276km, PSV expiry 13th April
2014, Tax expiry 30th September 2014.
Contact Jim/Kevin £65,000, Tel: 028 8673
7776
1999, SCANIA, VAN HOOL ALIZEE, 49
seat exec, DFR 1/3/1999 POA, Tel: 01508
489 262
SETRA
2008, SETRA 416 GTHD, ZF AS/Tronic
Gearbox, 49 seats, Tri axle, very high spec
coach, Ambiente ribbed leather seats, blue
interior Dura Bright Alloys, ski box fittings,
Blaupunkt multi-channel music system to each
seat, additional DVD screens, reversing
sensors, Satellite navigation to all screens, large
water tanks, photo for model illustration - vehicle in blue £110,000+VAT, Mobile: 07836
773616
1997, SETRA S250, Mercedes V8, needs
MOT, lots of spare available with vehicle. Call
Gary £8,000 ono, Mobile: 07919575747
VAUXHALL
2004, SCANIA, K114, IRIZAR CENTURY, ZF
Auto, 53 seats, A/C, very well maintained and
looked after, new to Clarkes, 520,000km, alloy
wheels, MOT August 14, aisle carpets, leather
headrests £43,000+VAT, Tel: 01928 57 27
57
2005, SETRA, Auto, 48 seats, LEZ
Compliant, Choice of 3, A/C, TV, first
registered March 2005, we are second owners
and all run perfectly. Call Keith. Would p/x for 3
coaches 2010+ £59,995, Mobile: 07970
096 262
2006, VAUXHALL, VIVARO, 9 seats,
Wheelchair accessible, 1.8cc, Tax 30th June
2014, Mot 8th September 2014, 104,000
miles, full service history, excellent condition,
one owner £5,450+VAT, Tel: 01302 711
217 Mobile: 07776 381 687
VOLKSWAGEN
2008, SCANIA, K340, VAN HOOL , ZF
automatic, 49 seater, 12m, A/C, full spec
coach, MOT March 2015, white exterior,
225ks, very good condition, email for more
photos £139,955+VAT, email: gerry@
717557 Anthony 07730 050043
SCANIA, IRIZAR PB, 53 Seater, LEZ
Compliant, Choice of 2 2004/5, usual extra,
VGC, new MOT. 1 NOW SOLD. Call Kevin
£70,000, Tel: 01708 630 555 Mobile:
07872 967777
2000, SCANIA, IRIZAR CENTURY, 49 Seats,
TV/audio, pa system, toilet, mileage
830630km, PSV expiry 20th May 2014, Tax
expiry 31st March 2014. Contact Jim/Kevin
£18,000, Tel: 028 8673 7776
1996, SETRA 250 SPECIAL, 48 seat
executive, Merc V8 4x4, choice of 2. Due to
fleet replacement, reluctant sale, rear floor
mounted toilet, full A/C, Telma’s all full working
order, current MOT, Tempo 100’s, excellent
condition, only 3 owners from new £13,500
ono for quick sale, Tel: 0844 576 3300
2003, SETRA 315 GT-HD, Manual, 49
seats, White, excellent condition and ride,
everything works, MOT September 2014, Tax
October 2014, new LEZ certificate, private plate
included. South Gloucester area
£34,000+VAT ovno, Mobile: 07974 366
757
2006, SETRA 415 GT-HD, 49 Seater, LEZ
Compliant, VGC, new MOT. Call Kevin
£70,000, Tel: 01708 630 555 Mobile:
07872 967777
2005, VOLKSWAGEN, LT 35, 16 seater, 95
TDI, LWB, 05 reg, drives well, low mileage,
front entry, non PSV, taken in p/x, 5 gears, CD
player, sky light, MOT until April 2015, taxed,
may p/x. Call Tim £3,999+VAT, Tel: 01404
475 02 email: parnell-coaches@supanet.
com Mobile: 07790 966 667
2012, VOLKSWAGEN, TRANSPORTER,
Manual, 9 seater, 2.0 T30 TDI SHUTTLE SE,
black, 15,900 mileage, diesel, A/C, twin side
sliding doors, privacy glass, CD/radio player,
Alloy wheels, power steering, remote central
locking, rear folding seats, alarm/immobiliser
£18,500, Tel: 0117 915 9988
2008, VOLKSWAGEN, TRANSPORTER, Auto,
8 seater, 2.5 T30 SHUTTLE SE LWB TDI,
silver, 45,500 mileage, diesel, A/C, CD/Radio
Player, twin sliding doors, front electric windows, electric mirrors, power steering, remote
central locking, cloth seat trim, multi airbags,
alarm/immobiliser, service history £13,000,
Tel: 0117 915 9988
1988, VOLVO, B10M, VAN HOOL , Manual,
49 Seats, Centre door, toilet, very clean &
straight, MOT out of date but can be sold with
MOT £6,000 With MOT £7,500, email:
07787 570 887
1994, VOLVO, B10M, JONCKHEERE, 51
seats + courier, Engine 286 BHP Recon 3yrs
New Clutch 2 years, MOT January 2012,
Webasto warm air heating, Inswing front door,
Air Con, Video, Rear Coffee Machine, Rear toilet
and emergency door. Good coach for school
contracts, tidy. £11,000 no VAT, Mobile:
07787 570 887
1993, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON PREMIERE
320, 53 Seater, reclining seats, seatbelts,
MOT’d till November, Good condition and
reliable £6,975+VAT ono, Tel: 01434 381
200 email: [email protected]
1996, VOLVO, B10M, VAN HOOL T8, 49
Seater, roof mounted A/C, alloy wheels, all
round good condition and reliable, MOT
January 2015 £13,500+VAT ono, Tel:
01434 381 200 email: info@wrightbros.
co.uk
1998, VOLVO, B10M, JONCKHEERE
MISTRAL, ZF manual gearbox, 51 Seater,
Centre sunken W/C, CD player, TV/Video, immaculate condition, Contact Grayway Coaches
of Wigan £19,500 ono, Mobile: 07793
105 814
2010, VOLKSWAGEN, TRANSPORTER, 8
seats +driver, T30 TDI SWB, very good
condition, 95000 miles, taxed December
2014 £12,500, Tel: 01900 629 02 Mobile:
07831792178
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1995, VOLVO, B10M, JONCKHEERE
DEAUVILLE, 51 seat exec, A/C, rear toilet,
MOT 24-02-14 £10,000+VAT, Tel: 01229
772 814 Mobile: 07785 224 070
1993, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON PREMIERE,
49 Seats, WC, MOT September 2014
£6,000+VAT ono, Mobile: 07753 670 745
350, 49 Seater, Centre sunken toilet, MOT
12-04-14 £7,000+VAT, Tel: 01229 772 814
Mobile: 07785 224 070
1995, VOLVO, B10M, VAN HOOL , 51
Seater, Rear toilet, New MOT 16.04.14, seat
belts, well maintained, sale due to fleet
upgrades £12,995+VAT, Tel: 01283 551
964 Mobile: John 07966511184 Gavin
07763845314
1992, VOLVO, B10M, VAN HOOL T8, ZF
manual gearbox, 53 seater + crew seat,
Recliners, retrim 6 years ago, still smart
appearance, rack blowers, good heating D/G
full draw curtains, radio, PA, large boot, good
stretch panels and lockers, wheeltrims (private
to be retained) good workhorse, ideal contract
coach (ex Trumans) MOT 06/02/15 + taxed,
available May 2014-04-07, Call Stuart (North
Lincolnshire £10,995+VAT ono, Mobile:
07730 486512
1994, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON EXCALIBUR
, Manual, 49 seats, O/S/R toilet, 12 months
MOT, 5 months tax £3,850+VAT, Tel:
01162870901 Mobile: 07801752101
2003 Volvo B7R Plaxton Prima
52 Plate (Jan 2003), ZF Auto, 57 Seats
+ Courier, Lap Belts, 8 Camera X200
CCTV System, Manual Tacho, MOT
July 2014, Owned by us from new.
£33,950 + VAT
(Sold as seen)
Contact details, email:
[email protected],
phone: 01289 308719
, Auto, 49 seats, Centre toilet £4,550+VAT,
Tel: 01162870901 Mobile: 07801752101
Seater, New MOT May 2014, seat belts, well
maintained, sale due to fleet upgrades
£17,495+VAT, Tel: 01283 551 964 Mobile:
John 07966511184 Gavin 07763845314
1992, VOLVO, B10M, LEYLAND, ZF Auto,
64 seats, Seat belts, full year MOT. Call Brian
£11,500, Mobile: 07799645002
VOLVO, B10M, JONCKHEERE, 54 Seater,
MOT November 2014 Tel: 01261 833555
320, Auto, 57 seats, M reg, lap belts, MOT
October 2014, very good school bus £7,995
ono, Mobile: 07827870576
VOLVO, B10M, EAST LANCS, 70 Seater,
New MOT 09/04/2014, seat belts, well
maintained, sale due to fleet upgrades
£13,995+VAT, Tel: 01283 551 964 Mobile:
John 07966511184 Gavin 07763845314
1995, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON PREMIERE,
70 Seats + driver and courier, New MOT, 3
point seatbelts, good seats, Sister coach also
available £19,750+VAT, Tel: 01249 821
821
Seater, Toilet, clean and tidy for year, new MOT
& tax £12,500+VAT ono, Tel: 01259 215
560 Mobile: 07785 525 381
2002, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON, 53 seats
+ courier, WC, A/C, 2 point belts, DVD, ready
to earn Tel: 01324 824 146 email: info@
bryanscoaches.com
1999, VOLVO, B10M, ZF manual gearbox,
49 seats + courier, Mistral 50 body, recliner
seats, rack blowers, A/C (working), D/G full
draw curtains, luggage racks, radio/CD multi
changer, reverse camera, DVD player, hot
drinks facility, sunken WC, continental door,
alloy wheels, under floor luggage, recent clutch
& power unit, private plate, tested 21/10/14 &
taxed, available May 2014, Call Stuart (North
Lincolnshire) £23,995+VAT ono, Mobile:
07730 486512
1997, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON, 51 seats
+ luggage, Can be made up to 57 seats, extra
seats available, MOT till 18th September 2014,
needs some TLC, good back up coach for
summer £6,000 (NO VAT), Tel: 01419 522
233
1986, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON
PARAMOUNT 3500, 53 seats, 1 previous
owner from new(Tappins) very smart, reliable,
MOT June 2014, reluctant sale due to upgrade,
this coach will take you anywhere
£1,950+VAT, Tel: 01642 325 300
1987, VOLVO, B10M, VAN HOOL ALIZEE, ZF
Auto, 57 seats, Recliners, plain white exterior
but could do with a respray, radio, PA, good
contract coach, MOT May 2015 £4,495+VAT
ono, Tel: 01827 311744 email: mike@
invinciblecoaches.com Mobile: 07442
491617
, Manual, 49 seats, LEZ Compliant,
Recently retrimmed seats with leather
headrests & piping, WC, servery, A/C, cd
player, courier seat, MOT January 2015, only
for sale due to fleet upgrade (Currently has
removable vinyl’s, not plain as in pic)
£18,995+VAT, Mobile: 07918 649 427
1990, VOLVO, B10M, PLAXTON, ZF Auto,
69 seats, Cogent seats with all age seat belts.
Call Brian £8,750, Mobile: 07799645002
2006, VOLVO, B12B, BERKHOF AXIAL 100,
iShift gearbox, 72 Seater, LEZ Compliant,
Double deck full executive, hot water boiler,
fridge, toilet, double bunk, radio/DVD player,
A/C, Sat Nav, Alcoa Staybright Alloys, ski box.
Choice of 4. p/x also considered. Contact Ray
or Dai £160,000, Tel: 01443 844 222
Mobile: 07919 015 511
2007, VOLVO, B12B, PLAXTON PANTHER,
ZF Auto, 65 Seats, WC, front W/Chair lift,
A/C, 3 point belts fitted, inspection welcome,
ready for work, sale due to fleet replacement
£75,000+VAT, Tel: 0161 775 0800 email:
07980 611 597
2002, VOLVO, B12M, BERKHOF , Manual,
50 reclining seats, Excellent condition , new
re-spray, A/C, toilet, TV/DVD, radio, PA, fridge,
drivers bunk, alloy wheels, Webasto, aircraft
lockers, NEW MOT £32,750+VAT, Tel:
01727 866 177 Mobile: 07448412411
1994, VOLVO, VAN HOOL , Manual,
70 Seater, £18,000 ono, Mobile:
07971279597
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Juliette Close, Purfleet Industrial
Park, Purfleet, Essex RM15 4YF
T: 01708 865656 F: 01708 864340
E: [email protected]
www.ensignbus.com
1999 / 2000 / 2001 V / Y / 51 REG DENNIS TRIDENTS
£18,000 + VAT
2000 VOLVO B7TL’S
£20,000 + VAT
ZF gearboxes, single door, 82 seats fully seated or
80 seats as DDA compliant, supplied with new MOT
and COIF, new batch just arriving.
Cummins / Voith , LEZ compliant with traps to Euro 4, CCTV ,Alexander ALX400 bodies which
can be converted to be DDA compliant or fully upseated to 80 seats.
DOUBLE DECK HYBRIDS FOR SALE
COMPETITIVELY PRICED
2000 / 2001 VOLVO B7TL’S
2009 Wrights hybrids, 65 seats, dual door, can be converted
to single door, Latest Wrights hybrid drive... same as New
Routemaster, Brand new battery pack, Brand new cooling pack,
Brand new Cummins Euro 5 engine, body upgraded to Gemini 2,
Over £100k just spent on factory upgrade.
1998 S REG VOLVO OLYMPIANS
Volvo Euro 2 engines, ZF gearboxes, Northern
Counties Palatine 2 bodies, 77 seats.
2001 Y REG TRIDENTS
Cummins C series engines, Voith gearboxeds,
Plaxton President bodies, 78 seats.
2009 OPTARE SOLO M920’S
33 seats, Mercedes engines, Mobitech LED’s, long MOT’s.
2002 DENNIS DARTS
Cummins Euro 3 ISB engines, 2 doors, 10.2m,
30 seats, ABS, LEZ compliant, new MOT’s.
1998 VOLVO B10BLE’S
SLF, ZF gearboxes, Wrights bodies,
44 seats, long MOT’s.
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2001 SUPER POINTER DARTS
Allison gearboxes, 11.3m ,
41 seats.
1996 VOLVO B10MA ARTICULATED COACHES
ZF automatics , 71 seats.
1999 VOLVO B7TL’S
SWB, CCTV, Plaxton President bodies, dual door
62 seats or single door 71 seats.
2007 VOLVO B12BS
Euro 5, automatic, Plaxton Panthers, 12m, air-con, being
converted to 70 seats, front wheelchair lift, Hanover LED’s.
2001 / 2002 DENNIS TRIDENTS
Euro 3 Cummins engines with traps, 67 seats as dual
door or 78 seats single door and DDA compliant.
FROM £18,000 + VAT
Euro 2 and Euro 3 with traps, 67 seats as dual door
or 80 seats converted to single door.
2009 OPTARE SOLO
Mercedes Euro 4 engines, 9.2m, 33 seats.
2006 OPTARE SOLO, M920
31 seats, Mercedes engines, DDA compliant.
2002 DENNIS DARTS
Cummins ISB Euro 3 engines , 10.7M, 37 seats,
new MOT, Hanover LED’s.
1997 P REG VOLVO OLYMPIANS
Volvo Euro 2 engines, ZF gearboxes, Northern Counties
lowheight bodies, 76 seats.
2002 02 PLATE DENNIS TRIDENTS
Cummins ISC Euro 3 engines, Plaxton bodies,
DDA and LEZ compliant, 78 seats.
2006 55 PLATE VOLVO B7TL’S
ZF automatics, Wrights Gemini bodies, 69 coach seats,
air-con, DDA, long MOT’s.
2003 VOLVO B7TLS
Euro 3 engines, DDA and LEZ compliant, Plaxton President
bodies, 65 seats 2 door or up to 78 seats single door.
1999 T REG DENNIS TRIDENTS
Cummins C series engines, Voith gearboxes, Alexander ALX
low height (13 8”) bodies, 76 seats, but can be upseated to 84
2001 Y REG DENNIS DART
Cummins Euro 2 / Allison, Caetano body,
38 seats, Hanover LED’s.
2003 03 PLATE DENNIS TRIDENTS
Cummins ISC Euro 3 engines, DDA and LEZ compliant,
2 door 62 seats or can be single doored and upseated
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WANTED
2004, VOLVO, B12M, SUNSUNDEGUI , 51
Seats + Courier, WC, A/C, 3 point belts,
DVD, alloys, full year MOT Tel: 01324 824
146 email: [email protected]
2004, VOLVO, B12R, PLAXTON PANTHER,
49 seats, Toilet, working A/C, TV, DVD,
excellent condition inside and out, this is not an
Nat Express vehicle, new MOT, new vehicle
arriving shortly Offer in region of £49,000,
Mobile: 07773 793 239
VOLVO, 70 Seater, MOT March 2014 Tel:
01261 833555 email: albertmilne@
hotmail.co.uk
WANTED, Mercedes Coaches, 2000 to present
year, 16 to 35 seats, finance settled, with or
without MOT, accident damaged etc, Contact
Tim Tel: 01404 475 02 email: [email protected] Mobile: 07790
966 667
1999, VOLVO, VAN HOOL T9, 51 seater
+ courier, Centre toilet, servery hot/cold
water facility, DVD player, PA system, MOT
until March 2015. Please contact Charlie
£25,000+VAT, Mobile: 07774927745
WANTED, Tidy Beaver, ‘33’ Ideally white, must
be immaculate inside and out with low mileage,
please email photos to office@otsfalmouth.
co.uk
2002, VOLVO, B12M, SUNSUNDEGUI , auto
ZF gearbox, 49/53 seats, LEZ Compliant,
Centre toilet, continental door, crew seat, A/C, 3
point belts, double glazed, power plug door,
footrests, carpet, curtains, PA radio, CD, DVD,
reversing camera, retarder, analogue tacho, tax
and tested, very good condition, owner driver
£39,500+VAT ono, Mobile: 07980294410
UNCLASSIFIED
1994, VOLVO, B6, 35 seater, Clean coach in
and out, good contract coach, very reliable, CD
player, 7 months MOT £4,750+VAT, Tel:
01642 658 194 email: ian.cass@
mdtravelcoachhire.co.uk
1998, VOLVO, VAN HOOL T8, 49/51 seats,
R reg, extra seat to fit on shelf, MOT December
2014, lap belts, very tidy coach £18,000 ono,
Mobile: 07827870576
WANTED, Mercedes 33 seat service bus,
manual gear box and fully fitted seatbelts, must
be in good condition, contact Keith Webber Tel:
01208 747 11
2005, VOLVO, B12M, I-shift, 51 seats, Extra
2 seats available to make 53 seats with rear
toilet, A/C. MOT February 2015, recent valet
and re-paint, in built hoover, webasto, new front
Michelin Multiway 3D tyres, rear Bridgestone
tyres with over 50%, just inspected ready for
season, inspection facilities available. Call Joe
£74,500+VAT, Tel: 02085 740 028 email:
07958 389 389
1999, VOLVO, OLYMPIAN, ALEXANDER, 78
seats + 13 standing, Automatic Red double
decker limited to 90 Kph,Seatbelts throughout
ideal for school trips and contract hire,
Hannover displays (We can add your
destinations ) £14,000+VAT, Tel: 0161 775
0800 email: operations@travel-master.
co.uk Mobile: 07445266345
1999, VOLVO, B12R, JONCKHEERE
MONACO, 14 Berth, Sleeper Coach,
downstairs features Kitchen inc Mircrowave,
fridge etc, WC, leather lounge, TV, DVD player,
hard drive & Playstation, 240v invertor/charger,
A/C including 3 phase options, 12 months
MOT, excellently maintained, with work
£30,000+VAT ono, Tel: 01434 381 200
Features include a manual gearbox, driver’s air
conditioning, ramp, 3 point inertia seat belts,
power door and MOT until February 2015.
This vehicle is plain white and is in overall good
condition. Finance available subject to status.
£6,995
for details contact Colin Earle on: 01342 835 206
www.route-one.net
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2003, VOLVO, B12M, PLAXTON PARAGON,
Manual, 49/53 seats, Centre demount toilet
(currently 53 seats) A/C, CD, DVD, PA,
4008,000kms, MOT 28/09/14, excellent
condition, call for full details and extra photos
Tel: 01851 860 288 email: lochsmotors@
btconnect.com
2004 Volkswagen LT46 8 seat minibus
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1990, VOLVO, PLAXTON PARAMOUNT
3500, 53 matching seats, good reliable,
contract coach, good seats, MOT March 2015
£3,500+VAT, Mobile: 07772 201 397
1998, VOLVO, BERKHOF , Automatic ,
73+2 reclining seats, Exec, towbar and
electrics, full MOT £32,000+VAT, Tel: 01362
683 831
2004, VOLVO, PLAXTON PRIMA, 70 seater,
54 plate, 3 point belts, 220ks, very good
condition £65,000+VAT, email: gerry@
717557 Anthony 07730 050043
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2008 MERCEDES 816D PLAXTON CHEETAH
2010 VOLVO B9R PLAXTON PANTHER
53/57 Seats With Three Point Belts, Power Door, Air
Conditioning, Actia Sound System With Single Monitor,
Luggage Racks With Reading Lights, ZF auto box, new MOT
£115,000 + VAT
29 coach seats with 3 point belts, double glazed windows,
sutrak air conditioning, large boot, power door, 6 speed
manual gear box, DVD/CD/radio/PA, new retrim, new paint,
LEZ compliant, new MOT test, 293718 kms
£75,000 + VAT
1989 VOLVO B10M VAN HOOL
1994 VOLVO B9 BERKHOF EXCELLENCE
37 Recliners With Belts, Crew Seat, Toilet, Recent Re
Trim, Recent Paint In Black, Power Door, ZF Manual
Gear Box, Luggage Racks With Forced Air, Reading
Lights, Mot Till May 2014
57 recliners with belts, power door, ZF manual gear box, tidy
condition for year, recent retrim, current mot test
£3,500 + VAT
2000 SCANIA IRIZAR CENTURY
£11,500 + VAT
1999 DENNIS TRIDENT DOUBLE DECKER
49 Recliners With Belts, Power Door, Comfort Shift Gear Box,
Alloy Wheels, Double Glazed Windows, Cd/Pa System, Rear
Sunken Toilet, Aisle Carpet, Aircraft Lockers, Air Conditioning,
Tidy Condition, MOT till march 2015
80 Seats With Belts, Power Door, Tacho Fitted, Wired For
Cctv, Reverse Camera, voith auto box, long MOT
£21,000 + VAT
1997 EOS VAN HOOL 230 TRI AXLE
27 seats with lounge area, server, fridge, toilet facilities,
monitors, tables
£22,000 + VAT
£15,000 + VAT
2008 58 MERCEDES 816 PLAXTON CHEETAH
33 seats with 3 point belts, 6 speed manual gear box, power door,
boot, carpet,curtains, overhead luggage rack with reading lights,
forced air, radio CD/mp3 player, euroliner trims, only 140,000kms,
1 owner since new, excellent condition inside and out
£75,000 + VAT
1999 IVECO BEULAS STERGO E
49 recliners with belts, crew seat, luggage racks with reading
lights, power door, manual gear box, rear floor mounted
toilet, Long MOT, 840,000 kms
£17,500 + VAT
1999 VOLVO OLYMPIAN ALEXANDER BODY (CHOICE)
2002 MERCEDES SPRINTER 311D
WRIGHT CONVERSION
78/81 seats with seat belts , Volvo engine, ZF automatic
gearbox, power door, tachograph, uk coif, wired for cctv, all
glass good, straight panelwork, new MOT, painted in choice
of base colour
17 seat mini coach with belts, slam door, tidy condition,
MOT till september 2014
FROM £10,500 + VAT
2002 VOLVO B12M JONCKHEERE MISTRAL 50
£8,000 + VAT
2004 OPTARE SOLO M850 MERCEDES ENGINE
27 seats, Wheelchair accessible, Destination equipment, Power
door, Auto box, On sale due to fleet upgrade, Also available,
2005,2006,2007, Some with belts,also slim line model available
6 speed manual ZF gearbox, 460,000 km’s
SELLING FROM £20,000 + VAT
£POA
2003 VOLVO B12M CATANO ENIGMA
49 recliners with belts, centre sunken toilet, air conditioning,
DVD PA system, luggage racks with reading lights, power
door, zf manual gearbox, tidy condition for year
£44,000 + VAT
CLEARANCE SECTION, PRICED TO GO
1998 VOLVO OLYMPIAN NORTHERN
COUNTIES PALATINE 2
68 coach seats can be upseated to 73, power door, ZF
gearbox, can also be seatbelted, new MOT, high speed
DIF fitted, choice of two.
£8,500 + VAT
1999 DENNIS JAVELIN CAETANO CUTLASS
70 Cogent Seats with Belts, 6 Speed ZF Manual Gear Box,
In-Swing Power Door, Luggage Racks, Forced Air, Reading
Lights, CCTV System Fitted, 330,000 KMs Since New,
One Owner, New Test
CHOICE AVAILABLE FROM £21,000 + VAT
2005 FORD TRANSIT
Ford Transit 15 seat mini bus, manual gear box,
MOT till January 2014, slam door, rear wash wipe
£5,000 + VAT
WAS £5,000 NOW £4,000 + VAT
1998 VOLVO OLYMPIAN ALEXANDER
Double Decker, 87 seats, MOT: New PSV MOT, Mileage: TBC,
low height, seatbelts fitted, Volvo engine, Voith auto box,
destination equipment, power door.
£12,950 + VAT
CHOICE OF OVER 350 VEHICLES ‘Open 7 days 08.00-18.00’ For our full range,
visit www.drewwilson.co.uk
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Email [email protected]
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2008 (58) Optare Solo M950.Euro4
Hire Purchase
Finance Lease
Refinance
Operating Lease
Man Engine, Allison 2100 Auto Gears.
33 Seats inc 3 tip ups can be belted.
Manual Ramp.Single glazed.
Front ,Side & Rear Destination.
£49,950 + VAT. Recommended vehicle
2006 Volvo B7R, Sunsundegui Sideral 3.3
ZF Auto gearbox. Disc brakes all round. 55 Esteban
reclining seats. 3 point belts. Front dash fridge.
CD/PA with mike. Air horns. Sutrak Aircon with
intergrated. Heating system. Durabright Alloy
wheels. Long MOT, 128 000kms, Genuine
£61,000 + VAT
Superb example
2002 Scani K113 Auto.
VanHool T9.LEZ
Automatic. 49 seats crew.
Saloon w/c. MOT Current.
LEZ. DDA cert Schedule 3.
£24 500 + VAT
2003 Volvo B12M. Jonckheere.
EURO 3 Engine
Call one of the team: Ron Telford, Paul Horsfield,
Robin Crossland, Andy Cartwright & Paula Timmins
Tel: 0161 456 4242
www.landmarkltd.co.uk
Fax: 0161 483 3733
Email: [email protected]
All finance is subject to status and only available to persons aged 18 or over. Business users only.
48, 3point belted seats. 1 crew. Air conditioned.
Radio PA. Saloon mounted w/c. Rear conti door.
MOT October 2014.
REDUCED to sell £36,000 + VAT
OPTION UPSEAT TO
53 OR 55 w/c removed.
Nigel McCree Mobile: 07817 542113 Office: 01509 502695 or
Nev Simpson Mobile: 07814 716149 Email: [email protected]
“Finance”
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SOE adds top solicitor First Executive Secretary in
to its governing body running for an award
Ian Jones gives SOE legal know-how through his vast legislative knowledge
Ian Jones, Director of leading
transport solicitors Backhouse
Jones, has been appointed
to the Society of Operations
Engineers’ (SOE) governing
body.
Specialising in representing
PCV and HGV operators, Ian
co-founded Backhouse Jones
in 2000. The firm has since
grown to become the largest
specialist transport law firm in
the country, with the biggest
market share of any in its field.
He says: “I feel I’ll be able
to bring a fresh perspective
and add a legalistic viewpoint
to the Society’s activities. The
bar of legal compliance is being
increasingly raised by the Traffic
Commissioners. I firmly believe
that prevention is better than
cure, and want to assist SOE in
educating the industry.”
Alison Hall, Executive Secretary
at First Scotland East, is in the
running to be crowned the best
in the business this week, having
been placed on a shortlist of
three ahead of Friday’s Annual
Conference and Awards for
Executive Secretaries and PAs
in Scotland.
She has worked for First
Scotland East at its Larbert
head office for over nine years,
and provides support to senior
management.
Says Paul McGowan, MD:
“In more than 20 years as an
MD in the bus industry, Alison
is by far the most efficient,
professional and dedicated
Executive Assistant I’ve worked
with. We’ve got an exceptional
team here, all committed to
improving out services. Alison’s
support is invaluable.”
Alison Hall: ‘invaluable support’
RECRUITMENT
Stagecoach South East
adds to marketing team
Rebecca Day, 23, has been
appointed Marketing Analyst
by Stagecoach South East, a
role which will see her assist
in the creation of marketing
campaigns, literature and
promotions designed to grow
passenger numbers and awareness. She will work with the
business development team in
Canterbury.
Following her graduation
from Canterbury Christchurch
University with a degree in
advertising management with
marketing, Rebecca worked in
marketing with a local recruitment agency.
Says Divene Anderson,
Marketing Manager: “I am
pleased to welcome Rebecca to
Rebecca Day: joins Stagecoach
this new role. The position of
Marketing Analyst was created
to assist the team in identifying
new opportunities, and I feel
that with her range of skills,
Rebecca will enable us to do so.”
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Moseley (PCV) boosts
its parts support team
Moseley (PCV), importer
of Sitcar, Van Hool and VDL
coaches, has added to its parts
support team with two appointments at South Elmsall.
With nine years’ experience
in Moseley’s parts supply arm,
Geoff Bean is promoted to
Parts Department Controller.
He will supervise the day-today running of the department,
drawing on his vast knowledge
of the coaches sold by Moseley.
Joining the company is
Matthew Collins, who has 15
years’ experience in automotive
parts. He is already displaying
a strong understanding of the
coach industry.
Karl Moseley, MD, says:
“Sales of new and pre-owned
Matthew Collins joins Moseley (PCV)
coaches have been exceptional
this year, and the aim of the
parts department is to continue
to grow in line with coach sales.”
Merseytravel helps 100
local people into work
Irizar UK Sales Director
back to work this week
Ian Hall is returning to work at Irizar UK following a period of ill health
Ian Hall, Irizar UK Sales
Director, returned to work on
Monday (2 June) after a recent
heart attack.
Passing on his thanks to those
who had sent their best wishes,
Ian says: “Having been diagnosed with a failed artery, not
symptomatic of chronic heart
disease or specifically lifestyleinduced, I am looking forward
to making a full recovery.
“What has helped me enormously in that is the support,
good humour and patience of my
family, friends and colleagues.
I have received hundreds of
cards, letters, e-mails and other
messages. It has been an overwhelming and humbling experience, for which my wife Pam
and I send our thanks.”
NCT driver shaves head
to aid diabetes charity
Lyndsey Stuart is 100th jobseeker to benefit from Merseytravel’s help into work
Merseytravel’s Employment
and Skills Team has reached the
milestone of helping 100 local
people into employment in the
transport sector, with Lyndsey
Stuart of Croxteth securing a
bus driver’s job with Huyton
Travel.
Funded through the Local
Sustainable Transport Fund,
Merseytravel’s Employment
and Skills Team offers careers
advice to people who want to
work in public transport but
may not have the skills or experience to compete successfully
for jobs. It works with colleges
and learning providers to help
people gain the qualifications
they need.
Cllr Liam Robinson, Chair
of Merseytravel, says: “We will
continue to work with operators and education and training
providers across Merseyside
to give more local people
the chance to kick-start their
careers.”
NCT driver Amanda Ogelsby shaved her head for charity Diabetes UK
Nottingham City Transport
(NCT) driver Amanda Ogelsby,
25, shaved her head aboard
one of the operator’s buses on
Sunday (1 June) to raise money
for charity Diabetes UK.
She says: “Diabetes UK offers
a lot of support to people with the
condition. It helps them come
to terms with having diabetes,
supports them in adjusting their
lifestyle, and even talks to them
about participating in research to
find a cure.”
Amanda has been with NCT
for almost a year and principally drives its routes to West
Bridgford. “Everyone at NCT
has been generous, sponsoring
me and lending me a bus.”
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Chalkwell drivers raise Plymouth Citybus wins
cash for Air Ambulance award for responsibility
Two members of Sittingbournebased Chalkwell’s office staff
have raised £425 for the
Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air
Ambulance by bungee jumping
from 160ft above the O2 Arena.
Andy Bates, Chalkwell’s
Operations Manager, and
Michael
Yates,
Coach
Reservations Assistant, say
they were very apprehensive
before the jump but enjoyed
the descent once it began – so
much so that they plan to take
part in another.
Says Michael: “We agreed
afterwards that we would like
to do another charity bungee
jump, and next time from a
height of 300ft.” His colleague
Andy came up with the idea,
Plymouth Citybus has been recognised for its commitment to the community
Chalkwell men bungee jumped
which continues Chalkwell’s
on-going support of the Air
Ambulance.
Cognitive skills given to 23
Nottingham managers
A total of 23 of Nottingham
City Transport’s managers have
received training to develop their
thinking skills, with the outcome
being a shift in their ability to think
positively and critically.
The three-day programme was
designed by Avenham Associates
and provided a set of thinking tools
based on well-established research
in cognitive psychology. Managers
involved in driver training, IT,
engineering, catering, marketing,
HR and garage management took
part in practical demonstrations
on various themes. Those
participating were tested before
and after the programme, and a
significant improvement in their
critical thinking was identified.
Two thirds of those taking part
showed convincing improvements in reasoning and weighing
up arguments.
Training and Development
Officer Karl Ward, a participant,
says: “The course made me realise
that thinking critically is an important part of my role. I’d recommend it to any manager.”
Plymouth Citybus has won the
Corporate Social Responsibility
Award at the local Herald
Business Awards.
Judges were impressed by the
operator’s effort to contribute
to the community over the past
year, particularly its commitment to helping long-term
unemployed people back
into work in partnership with
City College Plymouth and
Jobcentre Plus.
It has employed 19 drivers
through this innovative recruitment programme, which incorporates sector-based work academies focusing on key skills and
training.
Managing Director Richard
Stevens says: “The award was
won by the efforts of every
member of the Citybus team,
and recognises our efforts to
be good community partners.
We all feel extremely proud of
this achievement, and of being
recognised by the city.”
Awareness raised in
group’s Green Week
As part of its annual Green
Week, Stagecoach is aiming
to raise awareness of environmental issues among its staff and
passengers. It comes following
the group’s announcement that
it has cut its carbon intensity by
30% over the past five years.
Stagecoach is holding a series
of events, encouraging customers
and employees to continue to
drive forward its green agenda.
A focus is on incorporating local
communities.
Some of those being staged
include employee environmental awareness events at
the group’s businesses, ‘paper
amnesty’ schemes and initiatives
to encourage more recycling.
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