Experience

Ogden's Coaches is a family business, owned and operated by Eddie and Faye Ogden and their daughter Mandi Toynton and their sons Tony and Peter Ogden.

Edmond Charles Ogden has held a Certificate of Transport Management since July 1993. Over the past 25 years he has been Chairman of the Orana Branch of the Bus and Coach Association and he is also on the Executive of the NSW Bus and Coach Association. In January 2001 he was elected Country Vice President of BCA NSW. The BCA was restructured in 2004 and is now serving a second term as a Director on the Board.

Tony Ogden and Mandi Toynton completed the Certificate of Transport Management in July 1997 and Peter Ogden completed his in December 2004. Tony has been involved with school buses and coaches for the past 27 years, Mandi for the past 20 years and Peter for the last 10 years.

Ogden's Coaches operate 62 Non-Commercial Contracts in Western NSW and 1 Commercial Contract in the township of Mudgee. We also operate charter coaches.

Our Mudgee Depot was awarded the Baradine-Coonabarabran- Lithgow Countylink Contract in November 2004 and operated this successfully through to July 2009. In 2007 we were awarded the Countrylink Contracts to Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge, Bourke, Brewarrina, Nyngan, Cootamundra, Bathurst and Lithgow which are currently operated out of our Dubbo Depot.

In 2007 we purchased two major operators in Dubbo and are now the largest Bus and Coach Company in the Central West of NSW.

We employ six qualified diesel mechanics to service and look after our fleet of buses and coaches as well as the appropriate general hands. We have a total of 95 vehicles which range in capacity from 14 - 61 seats and employ a staff of 140. Our staff are all highly professional from our Administration Staff to our Mechanics and Drivers.

We have fully equipped workshops in Mudgee, Wellington and Dubbo to service our vehicles. Our mechanics regularly attend maintenance conferences, bus shows and training seminars to keep up with the latest trends.

Edmond and Tony have also been NSWTI Driver Authority Trainers since 1991 and Peter since 2006. Between them they have trained in excess of 4000 new bus and coach drivers.

All drivers in our business have to hold a current NSWTI Driver Authority and current RTA Drivers License for the size of vehicle that they drive. They are checked on a regular basis to comply with the Department of Transport and Infrastructure requirements.

We also conduct Driver Awareness days within our company. We take our drivers out in groups of no more than 4 and assess and discuss all aspects of their driving and have a general update regarding road rules and their applications.

We circulate updates of the Passenger Transport Act by way of copies in Accreditation Bulletins to all drivers.