Dereg team in place at Yorkshire Traction
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BARNSLEY-based National Bus subsidiary Yorkshire Traction has reorganised its traffic department in ancitipation of bus deregulation.
George Peach, who continues as traffic manager, will have responsibility for overseeing the registration of local services and for securing services put out to tender by the county councils.
Reporting to him will be two regional managers. Keith Allison is divisional manager (east) responsible for the company's operations in the Wombwell, Rotherham, Mexborough and Doncaster areas. He has been with the company for seven years and was previously its western area superintendent.
Mike Power, assistant traffic manager with Yorkshire Traction since June this year, is now divisional manager (west), responsible for Barnsley, Penistone and Huddersfield. He joined the company from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company.
Within eastern division Peter Armitage, Terry
Law and David Wallace arc respectively managers of its Doncaster, Rawmarsh and Wombwell depots. Armitage and Law were previously superintendents at their respective depots; Wallace joins the company from Southdown.
In western division, Barnsley, Huddersfield and Shation depots are managed by John Methven, Ron Le Morellec and Alec Findlay. Methven and LeMorellec were previously superintendents of their depots; Shafton's new manager joins the company from the Lincolnshire Road Car Company where he was district manager responsible for bus operation in South Humberside.
As a result of the restructuring Julian Heubeck, formerly area traffic superintendent at Rawmarsh, has left to join Midland Fox. Les Oldroyd, previously depot superintendent at Wombwell, has left the industry, and Arthur Dyson, superintendent of the Shafton depot has retired.