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Australasian Bus & Coach
Time Waits for No Man • Another day, another lockdown. Still, like Marty Feldman’s character said in Mel Brooks’s masterpiece Young Frankenstein, “It could be worse, could be raining.”
BUSWAYS WINS SYDNEY REGION 7 BUS CONTRACT
AUSSIE BUS BODY BUILDER PARTNERS WITH BLK AUTO
ADELAIDE O-BAHN ARTICULATED BUS TESTS UNDERWAY
IVECO AUSTRALIA NEW BUS BOSS ANNOUNCED
DYSON WOMEN BUS DRIVERS SMASHING CULTURAL AND GENDER BARRIERS
NSW BUS, TRUCK ‘GREEN HYDROGEN’ BOOST VIA $15 MILLION PLANT
BUS E-MOBILITY STAFF CHANGES AT VOLVO AUSTRALIA
VOLVO S-CHARGE HYBRID BUS: “NEXT BEST ALTERNATIVE”
BUS AIRCON EXPERT APPOINTS CUSTOMER-SUPPORT DEVOTEE
SCANIA MANDATES NHVR-COR COMPLIANCE MINIMUM
SCANIA ONLINE BUS ‘WORKSHOP’ LAUNCHED
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Navigating Change • Ongoing change in the industry can reveal new opportunities…
VOLVO-ZF BUS PARTNERSHIP CELEBRATED • Innovation, safety and reliability underwrite Volvo Bus and ZF’s decades-long partnership in producing a gamut of quality buses together for the Australian market, the companies retrospectively concur.
SOUTH OZ BUS OPERATOR RETAINS KEY ISO CERTIFICATIONS • Transit Systems’ South Australia-based bus and public transport operator Torrens Transit has successfully retained its independently audited ISO certifications for a raft of crucial management systems, it recently announced.
TRUE GREEN SECURES E-BUS FUNDING • Australian ‘clean tech’ investor True Green – whose portfolio includes electric bus transport and technology group Nexport Mobility – has successfully secured $110 million to advance its e-bus and EV making capability nationwide.
SUPER 8 • Regular coach passengers worldwide might have used that transport mode out of pure necessity, habit, or simply personal choice. Post-pandemic, coach tourism’s challenge is to woo them back in droves – as well as newcomers en masse. To do so, and if first impressions count, then Marcopolo’s new G8 series of coaches has all the calculations covered.
DRIVIN’ THE DREAM • Trevor Kerton runs a small school bus operator service in East Gippsland, Victoria. Coming from a farming background, Kerton’s move into the bus industry was a decision made out of a yearning for a new pace of life. He truly found his calling here.
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IT’S ALIVE! VOLVO ‘BZL’ E-BUS CHASSIS ON TRACK • Volvo’s forthcoming BZL electric bus chassis is due for release locally in 2022.
BUSWAYS RECEIVES FIRST CUSTOMDENNING ELEMENT E-BUS • Sydney-based operator Busways received the first of an order of six Custom-Denning Element electric buses in June 2021.
ADL PARTNERS WITH NEXPORT • British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and Australia’s Nexport have entered into a supply agreement to bring a range of zero-emission buses to the market.
BUSTECH E-BUS NSW ‘PANEL 3’ APPROVED • Bustech Group’s ‘locally designed, engineered and built’ ZDi 450 electric bus has been admitted to the Transport for NSW (TfNSW) procurement ‘Panel 3’, presently making it, “…the only Australian bus company locally manufacturing zero-emission buses for the NSW market.”
YUTONG E-BUSES IN QUEENSLAND • Queensland’s first fully electric urban bus route has been operating in the Lendlease planned community of Yarrabilba in Queensland since November 2019, via a South Brisbane Logan Coaches-run...