It’s a fair while since i’ve blogged now, but times have been busy. Squeezed in a quick holiday at home with the family for half term before helping out our sister company Marchwood Motorways. They manage a large contract for Go South Coast (our regional business that incledes Southern Vectis) for group coach travel, and this time of year is busy with ski-ing holiday work. Each coach requires two drivers, so drivers are in high demand. A number of staff volunteer from across the region to head off to the snow, and Mr SV is one - enjoying a bit of ski-ing. Plenty of snow in the French Alps, great for ski-ing but not for driving coaches!

Anyway, we’re back now, but to about 400 emails, and the mother of all tenders to complete for IW Council this week. This contract is IW Council’s huge new contract for transporting school children from September and requires all manner of information to be provided. It’s good in that it raises the standard of competition for contracts, but the completition of the tender documentation takes many many hours of staff time.

We’re busy now with Bestival and Festival planning, and as well as being the official bus operator on the Island for both events, we are also managing direct coach travel to both events from a range of towns and cities across England and Wales.

For Festival we are already arranging buses to hire in from mainland operators to make up the number of extra drivers and vehicles we need.

We are also responsible for all coach transport for the 2011 Island Games which are being held on the Island, and are already beginning to book coach operators for this event too.

Having caught up with blogging,  i’ll blog in more detail about these subjects shortly!

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