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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....
The UK Bus Industry ; At The Crossroads
For those solid and staid souls who have followed my ramblings since 2009 when I started this whole blog malarkey. You may have detected one theme throughout, namely my regular commentaries on the future of the UK Bus industry. If truth be told it has fluctuated quite...
The Great Gift Of Comedy
When I started off the process of training to be a stand up comedian to raise money for cancer research UK, I had not really given much thought to what it is that actually has to be done to make people laugh. And by people, what I am talking about is a group of...
CILT Well Represented At The UK Bus And Coach Show
It only seems like yesterday that I was bobbing along in the vast expanse of the floor number 4 at the NEC, slowly taking in all the wonders that were the Bus and Coach show 2018. For a sad old busman like me this is my regular pilgrimage to worship at the altar of...
More Things In Heaven And Earth Horatio…
I have always been, if the truth be told a bit of a cynical old Hector, as the classic seventies kids show used to proclaim. Now I do not know about you my dear reader chum but I have to confess that I have never been as far as I am aware someone who has ever...
Reflections On Growing Up In A Victorian England!
When I was a young boy, looking back I think that it would be fair to say that I was born at the end of an era. The values that were instilled into me, my siblings and most of our generation were traceable directly to the Victorians. Indeed my dad would tell a little...
Sadly No Longer; Wrightbus
Somebody, once said ‘A week is a long time in politics’ Indeed I think it was actually the man described in certain circles as the Queens favourite Prime Minister. A certain pipe smoking and quietly spoken Yorkshireman called Harold Wilson. How do I know this gem of...