Our ongoing and indefinite actions in the various areas of sustainability
In addition to the seasonally reviewed goals and actions that come with various sustainability and environmental programs, we have a set of actions and decisions that are constantly underlying and involved in our work. These ongoing actions have been recorded with our personnel. These sustainability actions according to different areas of sustainability and target groups are:
Societal responsibility
Customer
Whole chain in own hands; reliable and sustainable bus company and tour operator
Securities paid to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority
Partner network; customer gets an advantage of the benefits and discounts of a large tour operator
Clear and fast compensation processing
Domestic family business (amenability)
Personnel
Reliable and universally binding TES payroll
Domestic family business (amenability)
Statutory accounting is handled (pension insurance, accident and unemployment insurance, membership fee accounting)
Society
Jobs outside Ring Road III
Taxpayer in several municipalities
Domestic family business (amenability)
Annual remittances to the state (for example, for the financial year 2023-2024, our tax footprint was 4.1 million euros: income taxes, withholding taxes, and social security contributions amounted to 1.9 million euros, and pension and other statutory insurances amounted to 2.2 million euros).
Far-reaching and profitable business, taking care of competitiveness
Well-managed risk management
Timely submission of documents, obligations and notifications to the authorities
Social responsibility
Customer
Mobility enabler
Short distance travel (route and charter journeys, commercialization of route journeys)
Benefits of group travel
Communality; mobility opportunities for the lonely
Our product “good trip” corresponds to what has been promised
Personnel
Training
Effective occupational health care
Sports and cultural vouchers
Compliance with working time legislation (safety, resilience)
Early care program
Fairness between different personnel groups
Trustees are closely involved in the development of the company’s operations
Possibility to have blood donation during working hours
Society
Scheduled traffic exists outside growth centers in a sparsely populated area
Safe school rides (seat belts, semi-automatic fire extinguishing system, positioning, driving style monitoring)
Safe driving: driver training; proactive driving style, customer behaviour, first aid
Ecological responsibility
Customer
Minimum carbon footprint/km (driving and garage guidelines and adherence to them, minimization of empty mileage)
Opportunity for greener travel: scheduled traffic is greener; group travel
Personnel
Bus garage guidelines: minimizing the handling of hazardous substances (staff health and the environment)
Training in the handling of dangerous substances
Ecological rules
Waste recycling and reduction
Society
Taking climate change into account
Own maintenance, working methods at bus garages (list of ecological practices)
Driver behavior and driver monitoring: idling, fuel efficiency, anticipatory driving