Well the answer whats the diffrence between a bus and a coach?

Question

is you can not stand up on a coach

but you can on a bus .when all the seats are gone ....... thanks for playing

Answer 1

A bus stops at many different stops and you can flag them down and pay when you get on, my thought on a coach is that you have to prebook the seat or prebook the whole coach before getting on.

Answer 2

There is no legal distinction between the two.

However, there are two elements that might help.

One definition, which has its roots in the Finance Act 1968, is on the standard of seating, in that a better standard of seating was provided in coaches, reflecting the longer period that one was sitting there.

It also used to be the case that a bus was fitted with a fuel governor which restricted its top speed to 80Km/hr.

But, these days, with vehicle interiors being constructed to a higher quality, you often find inter-urban services being operated by vehicles that are manifestly not coaches, so that a governor is clearly not fitted.

As an added complication, there are vehicles which the public transport industry acknowledges are part coach, part bus. These are often called dual purpose!

The standing rule is a red herring. The rules regarding standing depend on the USE that is being made of the vehicle, NOT its construction! So it is legal to stand on a coach operating on a conventional city bus route, but illegal to stand on a bus operating as a private charter.