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Everything you need to write about Hire A Bus: the releases, the boilerplate you can quote, the logo files, and a named person to email. If something you need is not here, ask — the answer is usually yes.

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Company one-pager

The short version, for a fact box.

Name
HireABus.com (Hire A Bus)
What it is
A group transportation booking platform connecting customers with bus, coach and minibus operators.
How it works
Customers describe the journey conversationally, receive instant indicative pricing, and are matched with operators able to fulfil it.
Built for
Journeys of any size or complexity — from a single transfer to multi-city and multi-country itineraries — plus businesses, schools, universities, travel companies and event organisers booking regularly.
Sister company
Transporters.io, which develops specialist booking and management software for the bus, coach and minibus industry.
Chief Executive
Gemma Purnell
Chief Technology Officer
Mark Walker
Latest milestone
Global relaunch, September 2026
Media contact
[email protected]

Where you can book today

This list is read live from the platform rather than written here, so it is the set of markets the site actually serves at the moment you load this page — not a claim about where we would like to be.

Please do not report a number of countries, operators, customers or bookings from this page. We are not publishing those figures, and we would rather be quoted on nothing than on a number we cannot stand behind. If you need something specific for a story, ask Gemma.

Press releases

HireABus.com Relaunches with AI-Powered Global Group Transportation Booking Platform

HireABus.com combines conversational AI, intelligent operator matching and instant pricing to simplify group transportation anywhere in the world.

Boilerplate

Approved copy, taken from the release itself. Use it as it stands.

About HireABus.com

HireABus.com is a global group transportation booking platform connecting customers with bus, coach and minibus operators.

Its revamped AI-powered booking experience allows customers to describe their transportation requirements conversationally, receive instant indicative pricing and be intelligently matched with potential operators.

The platform is designed for journeys of all sizes and complexity, from local transfers to multi-city and multi-country itineraries.

For transport operators, HireABus.com provides access to additional booking opportunities and offers the potential to increase vehicle utilisation, fill empty journeys and reach customers beyond their existing marketing channels.

HireABus.com and Transporters.io are sister companies.

About Transporters.io

Transporters.io develops specialist booking and management technology for the bus, coach and minibus industry.

Its software helps transportation businesses manage quotations, bookings, customers, vehicles, drivers, payments and day-to-day operations, while its wider technology ecosystem is designed to connect operators with the growing global demand for group transportation.

Who to talk to

Interview requests go through the media contact below.

Gemma Purnell, Chief Executive Officer, Hire A Bus
Gemma Purnell
Chief Executive Officer

Gemma leads HireABus.com and is the media contact for the platform. She is part of the team behind Transporters.io, which has spent decades building booking and management technology from inside the bus, coach and minibus industry.

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Mark Walker, Chief Technology Officer, Hire A Bus
Mark Walker
Chief Technology Officer

Mark leads the technology behind HireABus.com, including the conversational quote experience and the operator matching that sits behind it. He is part of the team behind Transporters.io, the specialist transport booking and management software company.

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Headshots are free to use in editorial coverage of Hire A Bus. Need a different crop or a higher resolution? Email [email protected].

Logos

Free to use in editorial coverage of Hire A Bus. Please do not stretch, recolour, rotate, add effects to, or rebuild the logo, and please do not use it in a way that implies we endorse a product, a company or a story. Leave clear space around it of at least the height of the bus mark, and do not reproduce it smaller than 24 px tall.

Primary logo (PNG)
Primary logo (PNG)

For light backgrounds. 250×67 — the largest we hold; email us for artwork for print.

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Reversed logo (PNG)
Reversed logo (PNG)

For dark backgrounds. Do not use the primary logo on a dark ground instead.

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Square brand mark (SVG)
Square brand mark (SVG)

Vector, and the only one we hold. The square coach mark verified for our email sender identity — use where a wordmark will not fit. It is not the primary logo.

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Icons

Brand colours

Highway 500 — primary#1f8fc4
Highway 600 — deep#1175a6
Highway 50 — soft#eaf6fc

There is no zipped bundle yet — download the files you need individually, or email [email protected] and we will send the set.

Product screenshots

We are not publishing screenshots here yet, and we would rather say so than show you a mock-up of something the product does not look like. Tell us what the story needs — the conversational quote, the operator side, a booking in progress — and we will send print-resolution captures of the real thing.

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Recent coverage

Nothing to list yet — the relaunched platform is new. If you write about us, send us the link and we will add it here.

Press contact

Gemma Purnell
Chief Executive Officer, Hire A Bus
[email protected]

Not a media enquiry? The contact page reaches the right team, operators can apply to join, and there is technical documentation for the operator API.