25/09/2026
🚌 PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE UK COACH INDUSTRY 🚌
The coach industry is facing an extremely difficult time, and we need your help to make sure our voices are heard.
Since the start of the year, the price we pay for diesel has increased by approximately 55%. For coach operators, fuel is one of our biggest operating costs, and absorbing an increase of this scale is becoming increasingly difficult.
The challenge is made even greater by the nature of our industry. A large proportion of coach work is booked months in advance, meaning the prices agreed with customers often do not reflect the huge increase in operating costs we are now facing.
We fully understand that rising costs are affecting many industries, but once again, it feels as though the coach industry is being overlooked.
Support has been offered to other areas of road transport, including bus operators and the haulage sector, yet there continues to be little or no specific recognition of the unique challenges faced by coach operators.
Coaches play a vital role across the UK — transporting school children, university students, sporting teams, tourists, holidaymakers, businesses and community groups. We are an essential part of the country's transport network, but we need to be recognised and supported as an industry in our own right.
📢 WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP
Please consider contacting your local MP and highlighting the difficulties currently facing the coach industry.
Ask them to:
Recognise the importance of the UK coach industry.
Understand the significant impact of rising fuel costs on coach operators.
Raise the issue of the lack of specific support for the coach sector.
Support calls for coaches to be properly recognised when transport support measures are introduced.
The more MPs hear directly from businesses, customers and members of the public, the harder it becomes for our industry to be overlooked.
A huge thank you to our good friend Richard at Anthony’s Travel, who has prepared a template letter for anyone who would like to contact their MP.
If you would like a copy of the template, Richard is more than happy to provide one. Simply email:
📧 [email protected]
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Our industry needs a voice. Please help us make sure it is heard.
🚌❤️ Support UK Coaches. Support the people and businesses that keep them moving.
