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UK Bus Awards Comes Around Again, Can’t Wait
The rather splendid Troxy, nestling in the heart of the City of London, will be the swanky venue for the 2019 UK Bus Awards. I am as ever really looking forward to attending, although this year I will not be presenting the Young Bus Manager award on behalf of CILT....
The Implications Of Brexit On Driver Recruitment
A recent article in the excellent Route One magazine, got me thinking about a subject that has long been close to my heart over the course of my career. Indeed it transformed my world quite significantly after my foray into Poland in 2003, resulting in myself and my...
Never Underestimate The Power Of The Tap…
I think it is only human to want to feel as though we belong to something, it might be country, a religion, a sect, a football team, (to some the last three are in fact the same). It is almost a primeval part of that awkwardness that we all feel when we walk into an...
Life Is A Rollercoaster, Just Got To Ride It…
To recall the classic pop dittie from the hero that is Ronan Keeting, one time frontman of manufactured boy band Boyzone, yes the five piece were assembled Lego style by Louise Walsh, long term judge on Simon Cowell’s X Factor,( whatever happened to that I ask...
The General Election And The Bus Industry
As the fire and bluster of the general election gathers momentum, across the nation, it struck me that ironically the bus industry has probably never been in a better position than it is today. The reason being that both the Conservatives and the Labour Party have for...
The General Election; Trouble In The Leave Camp
I was moderately surprised this morning as I nibbled my morning bowl of cereal goodness to listen to Mr Nigel Farage, the one time leader of UKIP. And now the grand master of the Brexit party accuse the Conservatives of behaving like good little school boys and...
The Lost Village Of Dode!
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Halloween Malarkeyness And No Brexit
Well, after all the hype and the white noise, and threats of preferring being dead in a ditch, it seems that as the midnight hour on the night of Halloween beckons that no one called Bojo has someone been found dead in a ditch, and unless I have missed something we...
The Value Of Money….Or Not
One of the strange consequences of my returned cancer, is that I am still in the spiral of not sleeping very much and sometimes not at all. However, now and again I stumble upon a bit of a hidden 3 am TV gem. I talk of Eamonn Homes and his wife, who for some reason I...
Autumnal Changes On The Way
Well it is that time of year again, as the colours of nature start their dramatic turn around, reflecting the end of one year and the start of a new dawn as 2020 emerges only a short couple of months away. It has been a busy but successful year so far at uTrack, we...
The Noble But Tricky Art Of Writing…Stuff
I have been a very fortunate old Hector, in many ways ( For those of you old enough to remember Hectors House children’s TV show back in the seventies). In that my strange and wonderful career has allowed me to do so many varied and divers things. Of all the many...
Government Replies To The Transport Select Committee Bus Inquiry!
I have been involved in the UK Bus industry for my entire career, indeed I could argue, my whole life as I was born into the bus industry, and my young future was shaped by my fathers career as a senior manager within the National Bus Company. Anyone who has been kind...
Meeting HRH Princess Anne At The CILT excellence Awards
I was both honoured and delighted to be invited by the President of CILT, to attend the prestigious Institute Excellence Awards held at the very swanky Lancaster Gate Hotel, deep in central London Town. I was even more delighted to be invited to meet her royal...
Extinction Rebellion; Unpleasant Scenes In Canning Town Tube Station
What a strangely jumbled up world we live in, do we not? Irony of ironies is that Extinction Rebellion activists have been specifically targeting public transport networks. Be that planes, trains, tubes, and buses, which some argue are indeed the very solution to...
The Forgotten Joys Of Airport Travel
Bizarrely, one of the few plus sides of getting cancer, is the fact that because my immune system was so low, I was unable to enjoy the pleasures of flying for the last 18 months. Indeed I had utterly blocked out the whole stressful experience, of firstly have I got...
Immigration And The Bus Industry!
I was watching a really good documentary recently about the first wave of immigrants who moved to Birmingham from Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands in the 1950’s and onwards. The generation known as Windrush, the name of the first ship that brought them to the UK,...
The Sad Demise Of Yourbus
It is always for me anyway, a sad day when a bus Company ceases trading, especially when you have been involved in some way with the actual Company itself. My association with Yourbus goes right back to 2009, when I was working at the Diamond Bus Company in Tividale,...
Route One Awards; A Great Doo. Thanks To Hugh!
So, as it happened the black dinner jacket was dusted off and black shiny shoes polished, and of course the black dickie bow tie was taken out of retirement, and given an airing at the rather splendid Hilton Metropole Hotel, located in the heart of the NEC complex....