Issue 414

Australasian Bus & Coach

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Australasian Bus & Coach
Editor: Fabian Cotter ph: 0451 194 600 e-mail: Fabian.Cotter@primecreative.com.au Technical Writer: Paul Aldridge Production Co-Ordinator: Cat Fitzpatrick Art Director: Bea Barthelson Production Co-Ordinator: Cat Fitzpatrick Art Director: Bea Barthel
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We Of The Never Never
Dark silhouettes up ahead outlined by striking neon lights and bouncing laser beams isn’t for the fainthearted at the best of times, but at an unknown band’s music concert it is quite the cool thing. I think… While I love my music I’d never really ta
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Bus Operator Repeats Customer-service Benchmark
TRANSIT SYSTEMS NSW has maintained its ‘integration level’ certification of International Customer Service Standard, it reports. The repeat ‘integration level’ on the 2021 International Customer Service Standard (ICSS) from the Customer Service Insti
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South Hobart Express Bus Services Boost
TO REDUCE commuting times and help ease congestion, the Tasmanian government – in collaboration with operator Metro Tasmania – is adding more than 40 new express bus services for the southern-Hobart Kingborough area, it’s been announced. The move giv
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Kinetic Acquires Tassie’s Sainty’s Bus Service
LAUNCESTON-based family bus operator Sainty’s is now officially part of operator Kinetic, joining its already established Skybus Hobart and Tasmanian Redline shuttle and bus operations, the company confirms. Sainty’s North East Bus Service owners Rob
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Qld Bus Driver Awards Get Solid Support
IN EXCESS OF 1,200 nominations for the belated 2021 Queensland Translink Bus Driver of the Year Awards have been received, sparking high anticipation for the forthcoming finalists’ shortlist and then category winners’ announcement at QBIC’s 2022 Annu
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Sleepbus Charity Fleet Expands Into Qld
NATIONAL bus operator ComfortDelGro Corporation Australia (CDC) has helped deliver to one of its community partners – sleepbus.org – a potentially life-saving ex-CDC bus for use in the local Maroochydore, Queensland, community, it’s been announced. T
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Quantron Launches Cizaris E-bus
GERMAN ‘clean’ vehicle provider Quantron AG has confirmed the name of its new 12-metre electric city bus as the ‘Cizaris’, which debuted globally to the public on 16 February, 2022. Said to use proven and safe technology, Quantron’s Cizaris bus is a
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Scandinavian ‘Trambus’ Order Highlights ‘E-tech Power’
BELGIAN BUS builder Van Hool has secured an order to build 21 fully ‘zero-emission’ electric trambuses – aka a common-sense light-rail alternative – for Swedish operator Nobina, the largest passenger transport company in Scandinavia, it reports. Van
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Blk Auto Expands Hydrogen Power Reach
HYDROGEN-powered bus and truck options for the local heavy transport sector will soon have an enhanced sales and support structure via Australian-based BLK Auto and its established and new partners, given recent public announcements. Firstly, BLK Aut
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Nsw Bus Golf Day Breaks Youth Charity Record
TRANSDEV NSW has beaten its bus industry golf day event record and raised $11,600 for Father Chris Riley’s Youth Off The Streets charity, the operator announced recently. More than 80 bus representatives and staff participated in a round at Sydney’s
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Zero-emissions ‘Centre Of Excellence’ Plan
UK BUS manufacturer Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) plans to create a ‘centre of excellence’ to focus on the development, testing and manufacture of zero-emission bus technology, the company announced recently. A subsidiary of North American NFI Group
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Daimler Buses Expands 3d Printing Portfolio
DAIMLER BUSES in Europe has expanded its commercial 3D printing and is offering a new product and service portfolio in the field of additive manufacturing, it has announced. The aim is to support customers of other industries when procuring and provi
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Kempower Scania’s Official Supplier Of DC Charging Equipment
IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED that Finland’s electric vehicle charging solutions company Kempower is now the official supplier of DC fast charging equipment to Scania worldwide. Scania and Kempower have signed a frame agreement where Kempower will be an offi
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The Wot!?!
There were extraordinary scenes of a bus soaring through the air recently after an articulated bus was trapped in the remains of a collapsed bridge in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and had to be lifted out by crane. Thankfully no serious injuries were repo
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Coach Operators Join Canberra ‘Freedom’ Convoy
A GROUP OF long-distance and charter touring coach companies joined their truck industry peers in Canberra for an impromptu ‘freedom’ gathering on Saturday, 12 February. Busloads of people from a broad spectrum of Australian society were on five coac
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Choices, Choices, Choices…
Choices, choices, choices… Or are there? In the 2019 federal election campaign, the Coalition was outspending Labor on roads. Labor was spending double the Coalition on public transport – close to $30 billion promised by Labor – admittedly mostly to
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Come Face To Face With BIC National Members At The 2022 Bus Industry Summit Movingpeople.com.au/summit
Accreditation Manager Advantech Australia Airbags Australia ATG Axalta Coating Systems Beneco BFI Fire BLK Auto Bridgestone/Bandag Brisbane City Council Bus & Coach International Bus Finance Australia Bus SA Bus Stop Sales BusInsure Buslines Group Bu
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Bus Rollaway Accidents Get ‘Bigger Picture’ Investigation
According to OTSI, the investigation will: Identify the factors, both primary and contributory, which lead to bus rollaway events; determine the effectiveness of any controls that are in place to manage the related risks; and advise on any matters ar
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Bus Rollaway Safety Video Launched
In an attempt to educate drivers and help prevent bus rollaways, Buslink NT’s video highlights the scale of the problem nationally. The video also outlines the common circumstances in which rollaways occur and demonstrates ways to effectively counter
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Aussie Finalists In Uitp Transport Awards
THE AWARDS are designed to recognise the most innovative, ambitious and solution-driven projects from the public transport sector. Transdev Australasia, part of the Transdev Group Australia, was acknowledged as a finalist in the tough Climate and Hea
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Vic Transport And Volvo Buses Win Uitp Awards
THE 2021 UITP Awards winners were announced at the MENA World Congress, held in Dubai on 6-8 February. Taking Taking place every two years, the UITP Awards, “…showcase the most ambitious and innovative projects of the last two years in cities and reg
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Volvo Bus 50th Anniversary In Oz Concludes
In reflecting on its past year and key business achievements across partnerships and training, product launches and electromobility milestones, general manager Mitch Peden outlines it was an eventful anniversary year for Volvo Bus Australia, indeed.
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Right Here, Right Now
Daydreaming as a kid, one might wistfully wander off into some imaginary world picturing futuristic people and places, and how the former moves in the latter in this assumedly utopian scene. While the outfits might be magnificently ‘bad catwalk’ chic
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Hold The Line
Time waits for no man, or so the saying goes, and when it comes to changing technology and the thought of being left behind in the bus game, certain operators have moved pretty fast to ensure they are ahead of the pack. Not that there’s all-out compe
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A Long Road Ahead
Father and son duo Ziko Mijic (57) and Luka Nikolic (30) entered the bus-hire business with a bang in April, 2018. A look at their swanky Irizar three-axle coach on an Iveco chassis will tell you what we mean. The 57-seater features bespoke leather s
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Free-world Leader
It was a pretty good-looking coach body to begin with, but in the modern age with a new range of drive types for operators to choose from, eventually at least – diesel, hydrogen and electric – the popular BLK President 2 2022 update has just been rel
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Bound For Glory
According to society secretary Neil Robins, to whom ABC magazine spoke with exclusively, recently, restoring the Denning would be the group’s biggest challenge to date. Describing the scene prior to restoration, Robins explained: “On a desolate prope
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Fair Start To The New Year
We are out of the gates for 2022 and after a dramatic past year – where deliveries saw a huge drop and then surged back for December – January’s total of 86 is a quieter start, but hopefully a sign of increasing stability. In the chassis sector, Volv
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