BusyBus to support Critical Workers

For 17 years, Cheshire based BusyBus has been delighting passengers on sightseeing tour adventures from Liverpool, Chester and Manchester, to destinations such as the Lake District, North Wales and Yorkshire. The company has been one of the first wave of casualties to feel the recent burn of Coronaviras, COVID-19.

Rather than lying down and accepting their business could be idle for some months, Directors Peter Rosenfeld and Vera De Ruiter immediately took the decision to look for new uses for their fleet of new executive minibuses and highly trained driver guides to help in this extraordinary times.

As news broke this week of the true likely impact along with Governments instruction to “work from home” it was clear that the Country’s basic infrastructure would still need fueling with a workforce. Healthcare, food production, some schools, power, police, etc. all need critical workers in attendance.

The weak link exposed is getting those workers safely from their front doors of home to their workplace. Public transport, walking and even using their own cars posed risks of contamination from uncontrolled strangers, surfaces, doors, taps, etc.

So, within a few days, BusyBus had researched health portals, “tooled up”, designed and distributed promotional material and created a BusyBus offer that enables safe, disinfected, isolated transport, with a fully trained driver working to a documented and audited procedure, to plug this risk and minimise contamination.

Says Peter Rosenfeld, Managing Director, BusyBus: “This is an unprecedented time. In 30 years of owning businesses I have never seen anything like it. It is not a time for surrender though. It is a time for realisation and acceptance that these are really bad times and to unconditionally give back in supporting this great Country as it did for us through the good times”.

Not only is BusyBus providing its entire fleet and workforce resource it is also match funding the initiative. Peter went on to say: “We are not seeking a new revenue stream and do not intend to make any form of profit. We simply want to support the community, critical workers and our own workforce by keeping our fleet’s wheels turning and paying the bills.”