page_title: Scania OmniExpress
section_title: Norway
hierarchical_section_title: Scania OmniExpress / Operators / Norway
caption_attribution_description: English: A Scania OmniExpress (Skills) on a parking (Cap d’Agde, France) on June 30, 2017. Français&#160;: Un Scania OmniExpress (Skills) sur un parking (Le Cap d’Agde, France) le 30 juin 2017.
context_page_description: The Scania OmniExpress is a series of semi-integral single-deck coaches, intercity buses and city buses built by Scania in from 2007 until 2017. The OmniExpress 3.40 and OmniExpress 3.60, built to respective heights, are available as coach and intercity buses on the K EB and K IB chassis throughout Europe, including Russia, and right-hand drive versions for UK and Ireland. The 3.31-metre high OmniExpress 3.20 is available as an intercity bus, also on both K EB and K IB, in most of Europe, and the OmniExpress 3.20 LE is available as a low-entry city bus on K UB chassis in the Nordic countries.
  Like with other integral and semi-integral models from Scania, the OmniExpress has a letter added in front of the chassis designation, which is L from Lahti. This means that the step-entrance models will have designations LK EB or LK IB depending on which chassis they have, but it does not show the height. The low-entry 3.20 LE has designation LK UB.
context_section_description: The first OmniExpress to arrive in Norway, a 3.60, came as a demonstrator in November 2007 in the livery of NOR-WAY Bussekspress. It was tested on several of the NOR-WAY lines across the country, but ended up as a school coach in Bardu in 2009. In the first years, the OmniExpress more or less took over the market share that the Irizar Century had, and most customers were those that had preferred Scania for a while, including Jotunheimen og Valdresruten Bilselskap, Firda Billag, Fjord1 and some subsidiaries of Nettbuss. The first substantial order was a series of 13 OmniExpress 3.40 delivered to Concordia Bus Norge in July 2009 for fleet renewal of existing PSO contracts, and in December of the same year, Nordlandsbuss received 27 OmniExpress 3.40 for a new PSO contract in Bodø.
  Telemark Bilruter became the first Norwegian customer to get the OmniExpress 3.20, receiving one 11.0-metre for school services and two 13.0-metre buses for local routes in November 2011. All three were built on K EB chassis, a rather rare configuration for the 3.20 model.
  In August 2013, Boreal Transport received a total of 61 new OmniExpress for regional routes in Sør-Trøndelag, consisting of 27 12.9-metre two-axle 3.20 and 34 tri-axle 3.40 at 13.7-, 14.2- and 14.9-metre lengths. At the time it was the largest single order of buses both for Scania in Norway and for Lahden Autokori as a manufacturer.
  In April 2014, Scania in Norway received an even bigger order, including the first batch of 3.20 LE to Norway. Out of a total order of 89 buses, 36 were OmniExpress. 15 13.0-metre 3.20 LE, four 11.0-metre 3.20, five 12.5-metre 3.40 and twelve 14.9-metre tri-axle 3.40 were delivered to companies Setesdal Bilruter and Agder Buss for newyear 2015, for their new PSO contracts in Aust-Agder. In June 2015, Nobina Norge received 36 CNG-powered 3.20 LE (18 two-axle 13.0-metre and 18 tri-axle 14.8-metre) for local routes in Ski, being the first ever delivery of CNG-powered Scania buses in Norway.
  As of August 2015, just over 400 OmniExpress of various heights, lengths and configurations have been delivered to Norwegian customers.
caption: Scania OmniExpress in Cap d’Agde, France) in June 2017.
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