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With the charter business severely hit due to the pandemic, 38-year-old Kanga Coachlines and Farnham Roadlines CEO and owner Julian ‘Jules’ Roeger took a chance to invest in a number of new specialised buses to take on a rail-replacement project. What was meant to be a three-to-five-month venture, however, has lasted for more than a year. Now, with borders opening soon, the team is eagerly awaiting resuming its charter services.

Roeger almost didn’t become a bus and coach operator. While studying management at university, he worked part-time at a hotel where he was offered a management role, he says. The prospect was exciting for him, but when he told his parents about it they mentioned they wanted to offer him a role in their bus and coach business, which he ended