At Readybus, we put customer safety and comfort at the heart of everything we do, and you’d hope so, wouldn’t you?

But while it’s all very well for us to boast and say things like that on our website and in brochures, our word is only any good if it comes backed by watertight industry accreditation. So you’ll be pleased to know we have exactly that, thanks to the BUSK Benchmark.

What is the BUSK Benchmark?

Readybus is very proud to hold the BUSK Benchmark 6-star rating.

​The BUSK Benchmark is the first and only completely independent star-rating system for the minibus and coach industry in the United Kingdom. It was created with the goal of improving safety and legal compliance, and in fact, the most recent national recommendations for selecting a coach hire company suggests hiring with a BUSK Benchmark member.

 

We have to work hard to earn – and keep – those six stars. As BUSK Benchmark members, we have to undergo independent audits that look at how Readybus is run, what systems we have in place to safeguard our coach passengers, and to what standard our coach drivers are qualified and trained.

There’s no resting on our laurels either, random spot checks by BUSK are carried out as part of their monitoring service to ensure that we’re always at the top of our game, and that every one of our coach passengers travels safely from A to B during every single journey.

Peace of mind for every mile of every coach journey

When you’re looking to hire a coach or minibus, you want to know that you can trust the coach hire company to deliver you to your destination safely. The BUSK Benchmark star rating system has been devised to ensure that you get peace of mind from the knowledge that the coach hire company you’re hiring from has been thoroughly checked in accordance with national guidance recommendations, and background checked for their safety record.

BUSK also make it easier to find the right coach company for your coach hire requirements – which in turn means they make it easier for you to find Readybus.

If you’re a school looking to make coach travel arrangements from London or the south east of England, a company looking to transport staff and delegates to an important conference, a sports team that requires coach travel to a competition, or even a group of friends hiring a coach for a city break, BUSK enable you to quickly track down a Benchmarked coach hire company in your area, for a guarantee of safety and excellently high standards. Even higher safety standards than the national minimum requirements.

BUSK’s quest for excellence in coach hire safety standards goes all the way back to 1993, and they’re the only organisation of their kind in the UK, working with companies across the coach hire and minibus hire industry to provide safe transport for passengers. Their original intention was to ensure a change in the law that would provide all children in the UK with a three-point lap and diagonal safety belt when travelling in a minibus or coach during school runs and school trips.

BUSK successfully managed to bring about a positive change in legislation as a result of their campaign, and went on to become an important voice that helped reduce dangerous overcrowding in school buses, while writing many transport policy documents for schools, and producing bus and coach industry handbooks.

It was BUSK that first introduced emergency evacuation drills of buses and coaches in 1994, and this is now a common standard among coach transport operators, who use this form of safety training as part of Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) courses.

Readybus: proud to carry 6 BUSK Benchmark stars

At Readybus, we’re incredibly proud to show off our 6 BUSK Benchmark stars on both our coaches and on our website as a mark of confidence that our customers can place their trust and faith in us. BUSK Benchmark membership is something we know that our passengers can believe in, and BUSK itself is an association we admire for all their hard work and dedication, especially in regards to coach safety for children down the years.

If you’d like to enjoy the opportunity to travel in style and luxury with a coach hire company that carries the prestigious 6 stars of BUSK’s Benchmark standard on every vehicle in its fleet, then get in touch via email at info@readybus.com or call us on 0800 587 4066.