Ian Morgan: The really good bus boss

Ian Morgan has devoted the past 25 years to making TrentBarton into one of the world’s best bus companies. He tells Robert Jack why he’ll never sell the ‘really good bus company’, and why he’s bidding to run Nottingham’s tram network

29 April 2010

Ian Morgan says TrentBarton has reinvested its profits in the business to give it one of the UK’s youngest fleets

TrentBartons Hucknall Connect service has been hailed as a model of commercial integration

The Nottingham Line One now carries more than 10 million passengers a year

Ian Morgan stepped back from the day-to-day running of TrentBarton last year, but his “semi-retirement” as non-executive deputy chairman of Wellglade, TrentBarton’s parent group, does not appear to allow him much time in the garden. He remains a key figure in both the UK bus industry and the East Midlands business community. Last year he represented bus operators as president of the Confederation of Passenger Transport. Having completed his term he is now set to fulfill the...