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people, its vehicles are in service with
The City Dash is a 4.5 tonne low-floor coach with rear or side-door entry
the Education Authorities and Health Trusts in Northern Ireland, as well as a
number of local authorities in Scotland and England.
Key recent innovations include the City
Lift accessible bus, based on a VW Crafter CR50 chassis with up to 22 seats or six wheelchairs; City Dash, based on
a Fiat Ducato / Peugeot Boxer cab on an
AL-KO chassis with the ability to facilitate up to 16 passengers or up to six wheelchairs; and the recently-launched,
low-floor-entry 33-seat Nu-Vibe, which
has been developed to provide a modern and safe vehicle for the specific
requirements of today’s local authority, education, welfare and social transport operators.
Meanwhile, the new Euro 6 Nu-Track
Pulse has been designed with the support
of
the
base
chassis
manufacturer MAN to ensure that the
delivering a completed vehicle to precise specifications,
with
a
prompt
and
professional aftersales service ensuring a large volume of repeat business.
“Nu-Track Ltd. was formed by myself
best available product was launched into
and five others in 1991,” notes sales
those operating the vehicle on a daily
the genesis of the company. “We started
the market place to fulfil the needs of basis. The all new Nu-Track Pulse is built on the MAN TGL 10 tonne platform,
with an expected capacity for up to 40 seats depending on wheelbase. The
initial vehicle launched will have a
seating capacity of 35 seats but it can easily
accommodate
up
to
ten
wheelchairs in its accessibility format. The final product of Nu-Track’s recent
innovations is the Stellar, this is based on the new Iveco Euro 6 and with great anticipation it will be launched in 2016
(Contact the sales team @ Nu-Track for further details). Nu-Track
also
designs
manager Robert McMullen, reflecting on as a small coach-building firm and
“In 2012, we were acquired by Jeff
Wright, sole shareholder of WrightBus.
Although not directly linked within the WrightBus
group,
Nu-Track
now
completes the bridge across the sectors, for availability of both full wheelchair accessible
and
vehicles ”
passenger
service
All vehicles are manufactured to the
quickly turned our attention to niche
highest
buses, mobile libraries and wheelchair-
requirements, with a wide choice of
markets like welfare vehicles, school accessible buses.
“We’ve never done service vehicles.
95% of the buses, coaches and minibuses we build are wheelchair-
accessible. That’s the market we focus on.
possible
accordance
with
standards
precise
in
customer
chassis available: “In the minibus range, we can build on anything from a Renault or Vauxhall to the Volkswagen Crafter,
Mercedes Sprinter and Iveco range,” Robert confirms.
“On the coach-build side of things, we
Ease of accessibility is one of the top priorities on all Nu-Track innovations
and
manufactures a full range of school
buses, mobile libraries, minibuses and
courtesy coaches for customers all over
Northern Ireland and the UK mainland. All
vehicles
feature
lightweight
construction, excellent fuel efficiency,
bonded glazing, enhanced structural strength and detachable panels for ease of maintenance.
Nu-Track takes great pride in dealing
with customers on a one-to-one basis, from initial enquiry stage through to IRISH TRUCKER & LIGHT COMMERCIALS
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