Buses for the use of competitors were generously provided by:
Arriva Merseyside
Arriva North West & Wales
Blazefield Group - Burnley & Pendle (stand-by vehicles)
Cardiff Bus
First Bradford
First Leeds
First London
First Manchester
First North West
First Sheffield
First South Yorkshire
First York
Newport Transport
The Oxford Bus Company
Rossendale Transport
Stagecoach Cambridge
Stagecoach East Midlands
Stagecoach Grimsby
Stagecoach Manchester
Stagecoach North West
Travel West Midlands
Most of the buses were young - if not brand new - and every year the competing drivers ask for their thanks to be passed on to the donor companies. BDoY gladly couples those thanks with its own. Without such assistance an event on the scale of the National Final would not be possible.