Buses for the use of competitors were generously provided by:
Arriva North West
Blackpool Transport
Bluestar
First Manchester
First South Yorkshire
First Yorkshire West and North
Manchester Airport
National Express West Midlands
Oxford Bus Company
Southern Vectis
Stagecoach East Midlands
Stagecoach Merseyside
Stagecoach North West
Stagecoach Yorkshire
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.