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Good News Blog: Alan Cunliffe

August 05 2022

Alan Cunliffe is a City Red driver at First Bus’s Southampton depot, having joined in January 2016. In April, Alan went above and beyond in the care of one of his passengers when someone suddenly became ill on his bus.

Safety – how technology is playing its part in passenger transport

April 26 2022

Gerard van Houten, Regional Director for EMEA at Seeing Machines, writes about the emerging role of driver distraction and fatigue technology in enhancing safety for the passenger transport industry.

The importance of Continuing Professional Development

April 21 2022

Sam Law, Brand & Project Manager at Lloyd Morgan Group, discusses the increasing importance of Continuing Professional Development within the bus and coach industry and how CPT Training supports this.

Decarbonising coaches to tackle the climate emergency

April 13 2022

In this guest blog post, Andreas Schorling, Managing Director of FlixBus UK, discusses the climate challenge, and his company’s commitment to becoming the greenest coach network.

ZECT: the Zero Emission Coach Taskforce

March 25 2022

In this week’s blog post Ian Luckett, chair of the Zero Emission Coach Taskforce, writes about the work of the taskforce three months on from its launch.

English Tourism Week

March 10 2022

In this week’s blog post CPT Coaching Manager Phil Smith writes about Visit England’s upcoming English Tourism Week and how operators can get involved.

The Inclusive Employment Journey has landed

March 04 2022

In this week’s blog post Caroline Ward and Chloe Leach-O’Connell, co-founders of the Inclusive Employment Journey (IEJ), write about what the IEJ is and how people can use the resources available.

Level up bus to level up the UK

February 18 2022

In this week’s blog post Rebecca Kite, CPT’s Policy Manager, writes about how bus travel can help to achieve levelling up goals.

Bus & Coach Driver Recruitment Week

February 11 2022

In this week’s blog post CPT Operations Director Keith McNally writes about the upcoming Bus & Coach Driver Recruitment Week, and why operators should get involved.