Webberbus

WebberBus is a privately owned company that operates bus services around Bridgwater, Minehead, Taunton, Street, Glastonbury, and Wells in Somerset and also around Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England. It operates regular inter-urban services radiating from Taunton on a commercial basis, as well as a number of rural services and local town routes under contract to Somerset County Council and North Somerset Council. WebberBus operates dedicated yellow school buses on contracted work, and also a fleet of coaches for private hire.

History
Over 50 years ago F.Webber & Son expanded their haulage business to include passenger transport with a number of contracts to carry children from Exmoor to school.

WebberBus was formed in 1999, at the time that a second depot was opened in Bridgwater. It became a limited company in 2004, but is still run by the Webber family. In 2005, WebberBus won two contracts from Somerset County Council to operate route 16 from Bridgwater to Langport, and route 100/101 the Minehead Town Service.

Their first commercial route was started in January 2007, route 105 from Minehead to Watchet & Williton.

A new route between Bridgwater and Taunton was launched in February 2008 with two Optare Versa single-deckers. The route proved so successful that a third vehicle was acquired in January 2009 to operate an extension to Burnham-on-Sea. The company won the Accessible Somerset award for the route in the same month.

In 2009, WebberBus gained two more contracted routes from First Somerset & Avon on the basis of operating better quality vehicles. The company had invested £1.5 million into its bus fleet in the preceding four years.

At the start of 2010, WebberBus won the contracts to operate four routes in Weston-super-Mare from North Somerset Council. In February 2013 North Somerset Council announced that the contracts for these routes would be terminated, due to ‘persistent complaints of poor service’

In March 2010, WebberBus won the County Council contract to operate the  Taunton FLYER Park and Ride  service between two car parks at Silk Mills and Taunton Gateway. Eight new Optare Versa buses were ordered to run the routes. The contract began in November 2010, and runs for seven years.

Routes
Somerset & North Somerset

Webberbus run the following services: