The Go Bus Story

Go Bus can trace its roots back to the 1930’s when the first of a handful of small Waikato-based businesses was formed. In the early 1990’s these businesses came together to provide local school and urban transport under the Go Bus brand.

Today Go Bus is New Zealand’s largest passenger transport operator, delivering high-quality school, urban, charter and large-scale event transport services throughout the country. 

With a fleet of over 2,000 vehicles operating nationwide, Go Bus has come a long way from its historic routes as a local family bus company.

However, the core values of the business remain the same.  We are proud to maintain a strong focus on family culture and continue a local bus company approach. Our desire to expand and lead the industry is finely balanced by our commitment to maintaining the strong traditional small business values and culture that we believe is vital to success.

What We Do

Go Bus provides school, urban, charter and event transport services throughout the country, with most, but not all, provided through long-term contracts with organisations such as local councils and the Ministry of Education.

These contracts are provided through a publicly advertised competitive tendering process where quality and price are measured so as to determine the winning provider. We are also the company of choice for many other organisations who can independently choose their transport provider for charter, event and shuttle transport, choose Go Bus for our scale, reliability, service quality and competitive pricing.

Our Company

Go Bus is part of the Kinetic group, Australasia’s largest mass transport operator. 

Kinetic’s mass transport credentials have been developed over 40 years with extensive experience and capabilities delivering fully integrated services across public transport, school services, large-scale contracted transport and charter services.

Kinetic’s growing mass transit platform includes leading airport transit business SkyBus, urban bus operators Surfside Buslines, Sunbus, Loves Bus Service, and Go Bus Transport, and Sydney’s largest bus and coach charter company Telfords, and New Zealand's premier coach brand, Johnston's Coachlines.

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