IN THANKING all those who “…keep our country moving forward safely,” a family-run Queensland bus operator has updated its corporate branding to honour all essential workers – “including all bus drivers”, Koala Koaches has announced.
The company has recently updated its livery by re-introducing a graphic of a koala, and a gum leaf, to its signage – even more so emotively poignant and respectful given the destructive bushfires across Australia earlier this year – and changed to using teal and charcoal colours.
Yet perhaps most impressively, the company has honoured its namesake iconic animal and those at the forefront of the current Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic situation by including stickers of a large koala head wearing a face mask, underwritten by the words: “THANK YOU all Essential Workers!”
According to the company, this was its way of thanking all essential workers for their efforts during Covid-19, including “all bus drivers” and those that work in the transport industry, who “keep our country moving forward safely.”.jpg)
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Like many long-standing family owned bus and coach operators and businesses across Australasia, the 58-year-old Koala Koaches says it’s never seen anything like Covid-19 and will do its bit to, “…continue to work through these difficult times together, to slowly get all businesses back to normality.”.jpg)
Koala Koaches specialises in providing quality and competitively priced coach, bus and minibus hire in and around the Gold Coast, Queensland, it states.
It operates a fleet of various sized buses and coaches, with seating for 7- to 67 passengers. All vehicles are available for charter, for very small to very large groups, it explains.
Koala Koaches commuters, minis and midis are also available for self-drive hire, to people over 25 years of age and holding the appropriate driver’s License, it states.
Since 1963, Koala Koaches has been a local, family owned and operated bus and coach company, based in Burleigh Heads.
In 2013 it celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Photography: courtesy Koala Koaches
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$172,000
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2009 VOLVO B7R / CUMMINS COACH, 2009 MODEL
$79,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
1994 MERCEDES-BENZ CUSTOM COACH ROAD CRUISER (RECO LOW K MOTOR)
$26,500
Seaford, VIC
1994 HINO RG COACH
$29,500
Seaford, VIC
1993 HINO RG-197
$22,500
Seaford, VIC
1994 HINO RG COACH
$29,500
Seaford, VIC
2001 MERCEDES-BENZ 0405NH LOWFLOOR BUS, 2001 MODEL
$6,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
2005 MERCEDES-BENZ 0500R SCHOOL COACH, 2005 MODEL
$30,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
1998 SCANIA L113
$23,000
Lake Munmorah, NSW
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2004 VOLVO B7R BUS COMBO UNIT, 2004 MODEL
$45,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
1997 MOTORCOACH MARATHON / CUMMINS COACH, 1997 MODEL
$15,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
2006 MERCEDES-BENZ OH1830 MILLS TUI
$66,000
Warragul, VIC
2023 FUSO ROSA
$172,000
Varsity Lakes, QLD
2009 VOLVO B7R / CUMMINS COACH, 2009 MODEL
$79,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
1994 MERCEDES-BENZ CUSTOM COACH ROAD CRUISER (RECO LOW K MOTOR)
$26,500
Seaford, VIC
1994 HINO RG COACH
$29,500
Seaford, VIC
1993 HINO RG-197
$22,500
Seaford, VIC
1994 HINO RG COACH
$29,500
Seaford, VIC
2001 MERCEDES-BENZ 0405NH LOWFLOOR BUS, 2001 MODEL
$6,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
2005 MERCEDES-BENZ 0500R SCHOOL COACH, 2005 MODEL
$30,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
1998 SCANIA L113
$23,000
Lake Munmorah, NSW
2004 VOLVO B7R BUS COMBO UNIT, 2004 MODEL
$45,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
1997 MOTORCOACH MARATHON / CUMMINS COACH, 1997 MODEL
$15,000
Mt Druitt (Sydney), NSW
2006 MERCEDES-BENZ OH1830 MILLS TUI
$66,000
Warragul, VIC
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