Buses are environmental champions – they are the most carbon-efficient way to travel and tour around Scotland.

UK government data shows that coaches emit only 0.03 kg of CO2 per passenger-kilometre. This is half that of trains and radically smaller than the amount emitted by cars (0.11) and aeroplanes (0.18). If every bus in the UK took just one more car driver as a passenger, up to 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year could be saved.

The graph below shows that, over a distance of 100 miles a large car (with one occupant) will emit the most CO2 per traveller, and the coach emits the least.

Our Mercedes minicoaches carry the same as 6 fully-loaded cars (24 people), thus reducing your personal carbon footprint. Also, professional bus and coach drivers tend to drive in a more environmentally-friendly manner. This includes sticking to speed limits, driving as smoothly as possible and avoiding excessive acceleration/braking. Their priority in any situation is the safety and comfort of their passengers.

As a company, we keep help keep our emissions even lower, by subscribing to micro-tourism (keeping our mileage below 150 miles per day), planning our routes carefully, checking our tyre pressures and making sure the buses are well-maintained and regularly serviced.

Walking/Cycling also produces much higher Co2 emissions than a bus, since the energy you use whilst exercising rigorously needs to be replaced by a higher food intake, which in turn takes a lot more carbon to produce (Oil is used to produce EVERYTHING these days!). So, take a coach around Scotland, the most environmentally-friendly method of touring! ;-p

Hi, and welcome to the new home of ‘The Hairy Coo’.

Whether you’re an old friend, or a brand new acquaintance, I really hope you like our new website. Although there’s little bits and pieces we want to add to what you see at the moment, the majority of the work has been done, and nine months of development work (really!) has come to an end.

I hope all you happy guests approve of what we’ve been spending your tips on!

We have a brand new booking engine, a much slicker ‘front-end’ of the site, and it gives us the opportunity to offer many other tours rather than the old site, which could only offer one.

We’re still polishing her up and tweaking a few things here and there, but it’s now ‘live’ and up to our regular high standards.

I’m sure the web design firm (NS Design) will be delighted to see the back of us, given we’ve sent somewhere in the region of 300 messages and numerous tweaks back and forth to them before we considered it ‘perfect’. Sorry guys, but thanks for all your hard work!

Any comments on the site or if you find anything that obviously isn’t working right (such as broken links etc.), drop us an email at: contact@thehairycoo.com and let us know.

Thanks again.

Russell

‘The Hairy Coo’