We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded two prestigious industry awards that recognise business and operating excellence.

At the recent ‘Route One Operator Excellence Awards’ we managed to see off stiff competition to win ‘Coach Operator of the Year’ (medium fleet, 11-30 vehicles).  This award recognises excellence in areas such as quality and specification of vehicles, driver presentation and professionalism, staff training and innovation.

The awards also included five ‘people’ awards which recognise individuals who have been outstanding in their field. We are pleased to say that our chief engineer, Paul Murdoch, was the winner of the ‘Coach Engineer of the Year’ award.

Commenting on the awards, Mike Morgan, Chairman of the judges and Editor of Route One magazine says: ‘The winner is a company that prides itself on offering its customers an excellent service with an extremely young fleet of coaches driven by professional, well-trained and uniformed drivers.’

Golden Boy Coaches recently entered the 56th UK Coach Rally held at Peterborough. During this event drivers took part in an 80 mile rally and a driving test to demonstrate the maximum manoeuvrability of the vehicles and the skill of the drivers. The vehicle was also judged to the highest standards with the judges taking into consideration the interior and exterior condition, cleanliness, passenger comfort and driver facilities.

We are very proud to say that we have been awarded two awards. Best coordinated coach interior and best uniform for a large coach operator. Both trophies have taken take pride of place at our depot in Hoddesdon.

All of our drivers have now completed another full day’s training and are well on their way to completing their Driver CPC Qualification. This time the course focussed on Customer Care.

This training was part of our ongoing Company Training Policy. This policy assists us in delivering some of the important factors that contribute to being a successful operator, which are, satisfied clients, professional well trained and uniformed drivers and a high standard of employee conditions.