Tourliner tonic
That must have been a tonic for the soul, because I perked up straight after my visit to Trafford Park, taking a two-hour ride while ‘Coach Stig’ toured the north-west’s motorways and A roads chipping...
View ArticleThe Times makes the facts suit itself
I see The Times has fallen into the trap of inventing its own reasons for statistics, in this case the rise in NOx in central London. The Times has always had a zeal to bad-mouth Labour mayors. One of...
View ArticleCoventry says farewell to the bendy bus
As dusk fell on 20 March, many staff and enthusiasts watched on as the sole remaining Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated bus in the National Express Coventry fleet returned to the depot for the last...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with alcohol?
I’m familiar with this issue; although our brilliant heating/cooling experts such as Eberspacher and Webasto have developed ingenious electric heating units, the fact is, providing heat is a pretty...
View ArticleCTOs: the care sector, not transport sector
This could have been anticipated but CTOs are in the care sector, not the transport sector, and should have been better advised by their supporting organisations. Instead, they were advised to do...
View ArticleAn open letter to Lilian Greenwood MP
Dear Mrs Greenwood, I was a keen observer of the Transport Select Committee debate on Community Transport, focused on the use of Section 19 and 22 permits, at which both sides of the debate –...
View ArticleDiesel’s card is marked
That does rather depend on whether the Grim Reaper spares me for another decade or so, but despite all the advances in emissions control for diesels (and bus and coach engines are, beyond doubt, very...
View ArticlePanorama has me weak-kneed
I must be getting soft in my old age, but Plaxton’s new double-deck coach has made me get all nostalgic and fuzzy. There’s something about ‘decker coaches which has always drawn me, gawping, like a...
View ArticleA message from ‘John’
The last 14 years have flown by and it has been great to be part of the ‘work family’ that has made Bus & Coach Buyer what it is today. I joined the magazine fresh from completing my A Levels and I...
View ArticleCoach operators deserve better
When your LEZ begins, with its ‘Euro VI or pay’ ultimatum for coaches, you’ll have almost exactly the same mix of vehicles you had before, and any notion you had of reducing overall coach emissions...
View Article
