Richard Wade

Richard joined Go South Coast in 2015 as Operations Manager for morebus based in Poole, before being promoted to morebus General Manager in 2021. His transport career began in 1996 with a Transport & Logistics Management degree at University of Huddersfield, from which he graduated with First Class Honours. A year of that was spent on secondment to Metrobus of Orpington, which was purchased by The Go-Ahead Group on the same day in 1999 that Richard obtained his PCV licence at the end of his year there - and he has been employed by Go-Ahead ever since. Returning full time to Metrobus after graduating, Richard quickly became Operations Manager in 2001 and managed three different depots before heading to morebus.

Richard is passionate about delivering a reliable bus service and works with a variety of local stakeholders to ensure the best for the bus passengers. He has developed a lot of local knowledge and uses his own buses to get to work, and regularly drives them too. In the office, Richard will always try to see the perspective of those who work for him in a variety of roles - and can often help having covered those roles himself while building up his vast experience of what it takes to deliver excellence in bus operations.