Spanish coachbuilder Sunsundegui has filed for administration so it can buy time to negotiate with its creditors. The company, best known in the UK for producing coaches on Volvo chassis, has €48.8m operational debts, some with suppliers but the bulk with loans, but says its order book for 2025 could save it from bankruptcy. The […]
First West of England has started work on two multi-million pound projects this week to electrify bus depots in Bristol and Weston-super-Mare. Construction equipment has begun arriving at the Weston-super-Mare depot ahead of a £14.9million scheme, which will see the transformation of the two-football pitch sized site, just off the A370, and the arrival of […]
First Kernow is to operate Truro Park & Ride (P&R) for another three years after competitive tendering. The operator has run the service for Cornwall Council for the last nine years, and will continue to provide services from the two Truro Park & Ride sites at Langarth Park on the west of Truro and Tregurra […]
Various events are being held across the country to mark Catch the Bus Month this September. To give a taste of what is involved in this month-long celebration of our industry, B&CB attended the Catch the Bus Month event at Springfields Outlet Shopping and Leisure Centre in Spalding, Lincolnshire, today. Catch the Bus Month is […]
Northampton-based Chalfont Coaches is joining the FlixBus network. The operator is set to start running services for the global coach brand later this month. It has over 30 years of experience operating long-distance express services, and says ‘the future is FlixBus’. Chalfont is to operate four green branded Scania Touring coaches on services to cities […]
Spanish coachbuilder Sunsundegui has filed for administration so it can buy time to negotiate with its creditors. The company, best known in the UK for producing coaches on Volvo chassis, has €48.8m operational debts, some with suppliers but the bulk with loans, but says its order book for 2025 could save it from bankruptcy. The […]
It’s one thing to be sharp enough to spot an opportunity but quite another to sustain a business with it for three decades. That’s what Heavy Duty Parts has done ever since its inception, which saw a young entrepreneur, Kevin Booth, and the long experience of his business partner, Jack Miles, launch the company, at […]
The H2Accelerate collaboration has welcomed TEAL Mobility as its eighth member, as it aims to hasten the roll-out of hydrogen as a road fuel. TEAL Mobility brings to the collaboration its ambitious plans to deploy more than 100 hydrogen refuelling stations for heavy-duty vehicles on major European road corridors over the next ten years. The […]
Geotab, a global company in connected transportation solutions, has released new data that indicates electric vehicle (EV) batteries will now last 20 years or more… longer than the design life of a vehicle. The company analysed the battery health of almost 5,000 fleet and private EVs, representing nearly 1.5 million days of telematics data, to […]
