Julian Peddle

Julian Peddle
Born	Julian Henry Peddle 1954 Uxbridge, England
Occupation	Bus proprietor
Years active	1980s-

Julian Peddle (born 1954 in Uxbridge, England) is an entrepreneur who has worked in the bus industry since the early 1980s, having owned or part-owned numerous bus companies. He spent 11 years as co-owner of Stevensons of Uttoxeter between 1983 and 1994, having previously been its traffic manager. During the late 1990s and early 2000s he ran Status Group, a group of small bus companies spread across England which included BakerBus, Choice Travel and MK Metro. He was a major shareholder in Tellings-Golden Miller and Centrebus Holdings before their sale to Arriva.

Peddle is currently a shareholder in Centrebus, D&G Bus, High Peak Buses and Midland Classic.

Peddle was born in Uxbridge but grew up in Slough studied transport management at Loughborough University, working for various National Bus Company subsidiaries during holidays. He joined the co-ordination staff of Staffordshire County Council in 1978, and after 15 months moved north to become traffic manager at 29-vehicle independent bus and coach operator Mayne's of Manchester. This proved impractical, however, so in March 1980 he moved back to Staffordshire to become traffic manager at Stevensons of Uttoxeter.

Peddle joined Stevensons of Uttoxeter as traffic manager in March 1980 following a job offer from the company's co-owner David Stevenson. He bought half of Stevensons on the retirement of the company's other co-owner, George Stevenson, in 1983. When Peddle joined the company they owned 33 vehicles of which four were service buses. Under Peddle's co-ownership Stevensons expanded quickly, launching a network of tendered services around Uttoxeter which required no public subsidy. They also took over two small operators, Middleton's of Rugeley and Erewash Travel Services, in the early 1980s; the latter was sold to Nottingham City Transport in 1988.

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