STALWART BLUE MOUNTAINS BUS DRIVERS RETIRE

Affectionately dubbed ‘The Retreads’, Garth Taylor, Jon Rickard and Robert Hurren were officially farewelled from the Katoomba-based tourism transport company in December 2020.

FAT operates the Blue Mountains Explorer Bus fleet of double-decker red buses around Katoomba and Leura and conducts sightseeing tours and charters around Australia.

Hurren, now 78, had been retrenched as an electrical engineer for Phillips Electrical when he joined the company in 2004.

FAT director of operations Darrell