VE Commercial Vehicles keen on selling buses to TN

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd, an equal joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, is trying hard to sell its buses to the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporations (STCs).

“This market has been dominated by one major brand. We are making efforts to break it,” Shyam Maller, Senior Vice-President (Sales and Marketing), VECH Ltd.

Other States Eicher received an order for 600 buses from the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, which was executed with the majority of the vehicles being covered by VECV under an annual maintenance contract.

Orders have also come from Rajasthan State Transport Corporation and Uttarakhand State Road Transport Corporation, he said.

The company had sold buses to STCs in States such as Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka.

Light duty buses However, in Tamil Nadu, the company is yet to get a major order, he told newspersons at the launch of light duty buses under the Eicher Skyline Pro Series.

Maller said that in the last 25 years, the company had sold nearly 1,000 vehicles to the Tamil Nadu Police.

Eicher offers two range of built-up buses, Skyline and Starline, with a seating capacity starting from 16-seaters to 65-seaters. It also offers a range of chassis starting from a 12-seat capacity to the 65-seater capacity. On the new range of buses, Maller said Tamil Nadu is one of the top three markets for school and staff buses that come with seating capacity ranging from 36 to 60, he said.