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Tour Bus Charter with Nightliners covering the UK and Europe from Bristol (England) by one of the larger sleeper coach companies in Britain
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Win the free use of a luxury sleeper coach for 3 gigs in Summer 2010
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Jumbocruiser is sponsoring a mini tour in Summer 2010 for three winning bands at Surface Unsigned.
Why not click here now to sign up and maybe win the use of a Jumbocruiser luxury sleeper coach in Summer 2010 for 4 days (up to 3 gigs) ?
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Accomodation Trailers
On site crew Dormitory Trailers with toilet and shower provide accomodation at Festivals etc. Can also be converted to provide an en-suite Production Office with 4 beds, toilet and shower.
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of this typical interior |
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| Jumbocruiser provide two Megaloader coaches with giant walk-in loading bays for T-Mobile to transport competition winners to the World Cup series in Germany |
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| Photo reproduced with kind permission of T-Mobile(UK) Ltd. |
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We provide Unique Sleeper Coaches and Nightliners for use throughout the UK and Mainland Europe |
- We have some of the nicest coaches on the circuit
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- Except for our "Economy" coaches, our double deck coaches are modern.
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- Memory foam mattresses on all bunks - the newer buses have wider and longer bunks than before.
All to give a great night's sleep. Some coaches have 7 foot long bunks
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- Usually 3G/GPRS/WiFi internet access is available on Premium and Star double decker coaches - UK
access only (free of charge) until excessively high roaming charges go down in Europe. Subject to
network connecting and equipment uptime. Note that we are shortly due to change the system so that ALL buses have internet access throughout Europe but at a nominal cost, except no charge in the UK. During the interim period, some coaches will have UK only and some will have both systems.
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- Various entertainment systems. Most buses have Playstations (some have them in most bunks), multimedia video players with a large selection of licensed movies and music, Guitar Hero.
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- We try hard to avoid overworking our drivers and risking accidents. We operate within the law for
your safety.
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- We believe you will find you are dealing with a human but professional company.
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- Invoice rebates for all periods contract clients who achieve an agreed number of days "out of season" touring
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- No cash per diems required to be paid to drivers thus reducing the amount of cash handled. Nearly all costs are on the invoice.
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A unique Megaloader plus trailer can carry a massive 20 cubic metres avoiding the need for trucks sometimes. The luggage lockers also open to provide more storage. |
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These Jumbocruiser coaches are the
world's largest coaches - NOW SOLD !!!!
Click here for history
Click here for photos
Click hereto see a simulation by Todd Kumpf in the Grand Theft Auto computer game.
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Costs overall in the coach industry have exceeded 20% from 1986 to end of 2008 and along with new driver's rest day rules meaning there is a shortage of quality truck and bus drivers, bands are encouraged to advise their booking agents to keep distances down to around 350 miles a day where practical. This is especially so where ferries are involved as there has been a definite negative impact of global warming with ferries being cancelled due to bad weather, generally on the longer crossings.
Other considerations are the moves to 45 foot double deck coaches. These vehicles, including 5 years finance, now cost over £450,000 (US$ 650,000) and unlike in the USA where the private motorhome market subsidies the tour bus industry, the European coaches need to last 15 years to be profitable.
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- Driver and crew catch a nutter who lets off parking brake on coach - please click here
- Coach company fined £250,000 for driver hours offences. EPI Coaches Ltd. were fined £217,000 and £37,065 costs for 63 driver's hours offences. Multiple offences concerned failing to take adequate rest and other tachograph abuses.
- Sleeper coach impounded in Spain pending 6,500 euro security deposit. Yet again the Spanish appear to be acting disproportionately and arguably outside of EU law. Read more...
- Fraudster uses Jumbocruiser to escape justice, then fails to pay bill - bad move ! (Gets 4 years in jail). Read more...
- Are you being taken for a ride ? Probably not but it is best to make sure you are not. Compared to the USA, coach operators are highly regulated in Europe. The problem is that to a degree the law can not handle the bad guys. Read more...
- Drivers and owner of transport firm jailed for tachograph offences - Read more
- Ways to save money - Read more
- Conman steals money from bands and fails to supply sleeper coaches. Read more
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Drivers hours rules - (simplified) - click here to read in more detail
- Max spread over a day 13 hrs or 15 if a clear 3 hour rest during day with a bunk available (split spread over)If two drivers wholly from beginning of shift to end of shift then 21 hr spread over is allowed.
- Max driving 9 hours (10 hours twice a week)
- Min daily rest is 11 hours. Reduced to 9 hrs 3 times a week or 9 hours if a split spread over on any day(see above).
- Driver can not exceed 6 x 24 hour shifts (144 hours) without taking a 45 hour break. This can be reduced to 24 hours every other week as long as the missing hours are added to an existing 9 or 11 hour break by the end of week 3.
March 09 - Band bus company fined in Germany and Spain over €5,000 in each country in the same week for failing to comply with driver rest day requirements |
Our client base - repeat clients (in alphabetical order).
A Day To Remember, Alexisonfire, Ataris, Automatic, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Boyzone, Brainiac, Bring Me The Horizon, Buckcherry, Capitalize, Carl Cox, Creamfields, Delirious, Dizzee Rascal, Enemy, Enter Shikari, Fall Out Boy, Florence & The Machine , Finley Quaye, Fratellis, Foals, From First to Last, Girls Aloud, Goldfrapp, Gossip, Hawkwind, In Flames, Isle of Wight Festivals, Jack Penate, Jamie Lidell, Jamie T, Jason Donovan, Kate Nash, Leila, Little Boots, Martha Wainwright, McFly, Motorhead, MTV Clubland, My Bloody Valentine, Noah & The Whale, Paloma Faith, Panic at the Disco, Plain White T, Queensryche, Reading Festival, Reel Big Fish, Roots, Santigold, Saturdays, Saw Doctors, SSE, Snoop Dogg, Taking Back Sunday, Testament, T In The Park (Organisers), Twisted Angels, UB40, Westlife, Wildhearts, X-Factor
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Looking for a driving job ?
Unless we already know you then the only way to get on our books is to do double drives. In effect that means you will need to be a casual driver for a while until a position becomes available. Unfortunately positions are rare and timing is crucial. In the first instance please click here to let us know your details. Priority is given to drivers with trailer licenses who live near Bristol. We are also interested in drivers who live abroad for double drives if they have right hand drive experience. Meanwhile please click here to make sure you really want the job !
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Unique Megaloader™ coaches on the road.
The Megaloader®* is a 14 or 16 bed double deck coach with a huge patent pending walk in loading bay thus avoiding the need for a trailer. This will save money on ferries, tolls, and driver allowances. Please see the silver coach at the top of this page as well as clicking here. |
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Anthony Meade of MUTEC, who help us keep our coaches in shape in Ireland, learning what must be native American sign language from Chuck Billy of Testament outside a venue in Dublin |
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Safety means consideration
A driver may be asked to pick up at 1am prior to a long journey and the bus only manages to leave at 4am due to some straggler having to be found. The end result is a stressed and tired driver who has had his sleep patterns screwed up.
Our drivers are told that if they are tired they must stop regardless. Most accidents on our roads are caused by tiredness and we do not want you to be one of the statistics. So if you leave 3 hours after the agreed time, do not be surprised if you do not make it to your destination before the driver runs out of spreadover time and stops at the side of the road for 9 hours!
We are not trying to put you off, we are trying to show you the culture of safety that extends from maintenance through to health of the drivers in our company and that we want you to be a part of, so please be considerate. Allow the drivers to sleep by keeping noise down inside the coach, and be punctual for hotel calls. |
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Loyalty works both ways
So many times we have supplied coaches for a few days over the peak weekends and then found that we had not even been invited to quote for tours during the quiet months that we have now implemented a priority system.
- all bands or TMs who gave us work during this January to March period get top priority and may be allocated a coach even before the tour requests come in.
- all bands or TMs who looked after us in the quiet seasons last year get next priority
- all others may be placed on a waiting list and invited once a slot becomes apparent |
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Drugs and Norway
Recently we have had two incidents regarding drugs entering Norway. Pretty well every coach entering Norway is inspected by sniffer dogs and anyone getting caught will be fined and placed on a list of "non-desirables". This happened to two bands of whom some people received up to 4 years on the European-wide list that prevents the people concerned getting work permits.
Is it really worth it ?
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Trailer sizes
Trailer sizes are width 1.73m (5ft 8 in) and length 3.03m (10 ft) and height 2.14m (7 ft) with a maximum payload of 1.5 tonnes. = 11 cubic metres = 385 cubic feet. Megaloaders are around 9 cubic metres.
We have a couple of trailers that are 12 ft long.
Venues with no parking
The following venues have no parking so cross-loading may need to be organised
Brighton - Komedia (over 12m)
Exeter - Phoenix (any size)
Leeds - Rio's, The Cockpit (over 12m or with a trailer)
London - Shepherds Bush Empire, Islington Academy, Jazz, Koko, Underworld, The Forum (no trailers, no 14m coaches).
Now double beds
We are starting to fit double beds in the rear lounges of some of our coaches. These beds need to be booked in advance and will reduce the number of passengers allowed on the bus.
We have carried other bands like Def Leppard, Bjorke, Take That, and recently the Dave Matthews Band, Regina Spektor, and Erykah Badu, but as with all the bands listed, depending on who the tour manager is, the bus company may change after a decent run of work even if the tour went well.
A Comedy of Errors
However hard we try we sometimes have trouble with the quality of support on the road. Click here to read more...
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| Visit Four Seasons, our USA associate's website >> |
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*European Registered Design
000326939 for Megaloader passed December
2005
Jumbocruiser Ltd.
Registered office: 58 The
Terrace, Torquay, TQ1 1DE .
Registered in England #5256810 |
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