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Bakers Dolphins’ Amanda Harrington is ‘Sales Leader of the Year’

Amanda Harrington, Sales and Marketing Director at Bakers Dolphin, has won the Sales Leader of the Year Award in the South West Leadership Awards. Amanda, who completes 40 years with the Weston-super-Mare coach operator this year, was chosen by a panel of independent business specialists in the a...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 3h ago

Stagecoach East marks driver’s 40 years

Stagecoach East is marking the 40th anniversary of a member of its team. Philip Coulson, a driver at Stagecoach’s Peterborough depot, is a popular and knowledgeable colleague, and known for his hard work. He has been given a long service award for hbis four decades behind the wheel.  Darren Roe, ...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 6h ago

Pailton develops ergonomic driver pod, addressing driver MSK problem

Steering systems manufacturer Pailton Engineering is introducing its ergonomically-designed driver pod. Debuted at Busworld 2025, the system addresses issues with Musculoskeletal (MSK) problems, which are considered one of the biggest causes of driver absence in the UK. TfL saw almost 20,000 sick...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

The Coach Travel Group repositions The Kings Ferry

The Coach Travel Group (CTG) is repositioning The Kings Ferry brand as its dedicated national key accounts and large-scale events transport division. The Kings Ferry joined the CTG portfolio in October 2025. It has now been repositioned to sit at the centre of the group’s national coordination mo...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

Scrap Fuel Duty rise, RHA urges Government

Trade body RHA has delivered an open letter to Downing Street calling on the Government to scrap plans to raise fuel duty later this year. More than 470 transport operators signed the open letter to the Chancellor. It comes as diesel costs have soared by around 40% amid turmoil in the Middle East...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

Grant Palmer takes 20th new E200

Alexander Dennis has supplied two new Enviro200 midibuses to Bedfordshire independent Grant Palmer. This latest delivery takes the number of Enviro200 bought brand new from Alexander Dennis by Grant Palmer since 2015 to 20. In total, Grant Palmer operates 31 Enviro200s, making up three quarters o...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

National campaign urges action against transport assaults

Transport workers are to take part in a day of action against assaults across the country tomorrow (28 April 2026). RMT activists will leaflet bus depots, train stations and ports highlighting the union’s national campaign demands to curb the rise in assaults and abuse and to make public transpor...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

Merfyn Williams (81) could be the UK’s oldest bus driver

Merfyn Williams, better known as Taff, could be the UK’s oldest bus driver. The 81-year-old drives for Arriva, having spent his 60 years of service at the same St Helens depot. Born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the origin of his lifelong nickname, Taff moved to St Helens in 1966 after meeting his ...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

Hertfordshire moves forward with franchising

Hertfordshire County Council is preparing to move forward in the Government’s Bus Reform and Franchising Pilot Programme. The announcement follows what the Council describes as strong early progress on the first phase of the pre assessment business case work. Hertfordshire successfully bid to the...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 1d ago

Scania’s 11-litre Super engine comes to bus and coach

Scania has launched the newest addition to its Super engine line-up, with the 11-litre version of the unit now being offered on its buses and coaches. Available in three power options – 350hp (1800Nm), 390hp (2,000Nm) and 430hp (2,200Nm) – the new Super engine has been designed to perform on urba...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 4d ago

SBC Coaches takes its first new Alexander Dennis bus

Alexander Dennis has delivered an Enviro400 to SBC Coaches of Essex. The new bus is the first brand new Alexander Dennis vehicle the business has bought. The double-decker is highly specified for use on corporate work. It has wood-effect flooring throughout and 85 high-backed Lazzerini Pratico se...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 4d ago

UK Coach Rally: The winners – awards presentations gallery

The winners of this year’s UK Coach Rally are below. Click the image above to see our gallery of the trophy presentations Trophies and awards Alan Goodwin Trophy (The Highest Placed Coach Operator in all Classes) 50 Go Goodwins Clwyd Ltd The Dudley Haynes Cup UK Coach Rally Coach Driver of the Ye...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 5d ago

UK Coach Rally – ALL the entries

Here is our gallery of all the entries to the 70th edition of the UK Coach Rally last weekend. Click the image above to see all 50 of the coaches taking part, ably captured by B&CB’s David Cole. The post UK Coach Rally – ALL the entries appeared first on Bus & Coach Buyer.

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Bus & Coach Buyer 6d ago

Somerset Council expands on-demand fleet with EVMs

Somerset Council has expanded its demand responsive transport fleet with six diesel Cityline minibuses and one electric Cityline from EVM. For use on the Council’s Digital Slinky service, both of the vehicle types are based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. The Cityline is a 16-seater low-floor mini...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 8d ago

UK Coach Rally – Sharpes takes top title and Go-Goodwins’ have youngest-ever winning driver

Taking the Coach of the Year title at the UK Coach Rally was Sharpes of Nottingham with its new Van Hool T17 Astron. The Rally last weekend (18-19 April) once again took place at Blackpool. Taking the Coach Driver of the Year title was Louis Goodwin of Go Goodwins. Louis described his win as ‘ama...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 8d ago

Coach Options adds second Van Hool Altano

A second Van Hool TDX21 Altano been handed over to Gareth Williams at Coach Options by Robert White of VDL Bus and Coach. The Manchester-based operator’s latest delivery has a DAF MX13 530hp engine coupled to an Allison T525R fully automatic gearbox. The upper deck features 40 Kiel 1020 reclining...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 8d ago

Flibco expanding with new service and 18 Caetano Scanias

Airport coach service specialist, Flibco, is launching a new coach service between London Stansted Airport and Finsbury Park in North London. Additionally, the Luxembourg-headquartered Flibco is investing in 18 new Scania-based Caetano Levantes for its UK fleet. Flibco entered the UK market last ...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 11d ago

Routemaster repowered – Heritage and innovation

As it stands at Bulleid Way in Victoria, London, Golden Tours’ AEC Routemaster looks like any other. The iconic vehicle bears the London red and well known shape of the capital’s bus. The only give away that something is different about the partially open-top double-decker is a message on the sid...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 11d ago

Son to follow in father’s footsteps at Bus Driver of the Year competition

A chance conversation revealed the remarkable fact that the son of the winner of the inaugural Bus Driver of the Year competition in 1967 is set to take part in this year’s event. Darren Dunbar, Driver Training Officer at National Express Coventry, was browsing through the past winners on the BDo...

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Bus & Coach Buyer 11d ago

FlixBus celebrates fifth anniversary

Half a decade has passed since FlixBus started running coach services within the UK. To mark the occasion, the operator held a celebratory event in London, inviting operator partners and other industry personnel involved with the company over the past five years. FlixBus CEO, André Schwämmlein, c...

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