HISTORY

Emerald Coaches Pty Ltd is owned and operated in partnership by Murray and Noela Berkman.

After starting a family and experiencing problems due to distances involved in educating our children, we bought a school bus run near Emerald in 1980. Our first bus was a 22 seat minibus.

Due to the quality and reliability of our service, we received many enquiries about weekend charter for youth and sporting groups. In response to this demand in 1986, we invested in our first 45 seat air-conditioned coach.

Our goal was to provide the safest and most reliable passenger transport, with the highest level of customer service possible. These ideals are still foremost in our minds today.

We were inundated with work over the coming months and bought another minibus late in 1986 with a further coach in 1987. We received requests to organize tours for both schools and senior citizens’ groups and arranged our first tour to the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers with a full coach load of what we lovingly called our "oldies". Our first 5 star coach was bought in 1982 and we have arranged tours across Australia to the present day.

The purchase of a school service from Springsure in 1998 further consolidated our position in Central Queensland and the acquisition of our own depot greatly enhanced our service and maintenance program, staff morale and professional reputation.

Since then we have steadily grown to become a leading provider of daily employee transport for mining companies and contractors, school transport and private charter and vehicle hire.