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Ground Transport, our core service

Coach and instrument transport for performance tours

Ground transport for a performance tour is not regular group transport. Instruments need planned space, not leftover space. Concert days run on call times, not sightseeing schedules. Drivers must handle early load-ins, late finishes, and changing venues without drama, all within EU driving-time rules. This is the work we have done for music groups across Europe for more than 30 years: we plan the leg around the performance schedule, load-plan the coach around the instruments, and brief every driver on what a tour day actually looks like. You get a partner for whom the road is the main job, not an add-on.

What the service covers

  • Coach transport for your Europe legs, sized to your group and luggage reality
  • Load plans for instruments and backline, agreed before the tour, not improvised at the kerb
  • Drivers briefed on tour operations: call times, load-ins, concert-day rhythm
  • Routing and schedule checks against EU driving-time and rest rules before you publish an itinerary
  • Cross-border planning, including customs and carnet questions on instrument moves
  • A named contact during travel dates, on European time

Built for operator schedules

You know the itinerary pressure of a performance tour: a full programme, one bus, and no slack when a venue changes the get-in time. We check feasibility before you commit, tell you honestly when a day plan will not survive contact with reality, and build in the buffers a touring group needs. If a plan needs to change mid-tour, you deal with one person, not a dispatch queue.

White-label, under your name

Your group experiences your tour. We operate in the background, communicate in your name where you want us to, and put client protection in writing: no direct sales to groups that came to us through you. The details are on How we work.

Where

Our depth is Central Europe: Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Munich, Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig, Lucerne, South Tyrol, and the roads between them. We quote the legs we can run at our own standard.

Get a transport quote for your leg

Group size, dates, cities: that is all we need to start. Feasibility check and price indication within 48 hours.

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