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Truck Centre, an authorised dealer of Iveco, is enjoying increased market share in the medium bus segment with a 22-seater bus aimed at everything from the minibus taxi industry to schools and shuttle-service operators.
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The restructuring of South Africa’s public transport infrastructure is one of the biggest challenges facing the Department of Transport – but the startling statistics and pictures of horrific crashes so often used to portray the minibus taxi industry only tell half the story. JACO DE KLERK delves into the taxi business.
Public transport systems are fundamental for sustaining economies and promoting further growth, but how successful can they be when they’re used primarily – and often grudgingly – by those who have no other choice? What makes clean, comfortable, reliable, fast, secure, safe and affordable transport services so difficult to achieve? JACO DE KLERK reports.
As we approach the Randburg taxi rank, I get to see first-hand just how brilliant the Jimmijagga limotaxi is at getting people to change their minds about things, says SEAN PARKER.
Operators, manufacturers, consumers and government came together to discuss various issues pertaining to the bus industry. DANIELLE DU TOIT continues her report back of the annual SABOA conference.
With all the economic uncertainty in the world, FRANK BEETON felt it was an opportune time to take a look at what’s been happening to the bus markets in some key countries.
MAN Truck & Bus Deutschland and AeroGround Flughafen München GmbH have signed a framework agreement for the delivery of 46 regular-service buses that will be used to transport airline passengers at Munich’s Franz Josef Strauß Airport. The order will be delivered in three batches by 2014.
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