ns8401 Posted October 10, 2018 Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 23 hours ago, traildriver said: Currently, 3 of the 4 daily trips on the heavy Atlanta-Dallas route stop in Monroe....I can't see why they would not stop there, other than a threat in order to get a 'sweetheart deal', on their use of the municipal terminal there.... Recently Greyhound has been muscling their way into these municipal terminals and I think you nailed it... threaten to leave to get a better deal... They got it too, 4-1: https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2018/10/09/greyhound-terminal-relocate-downtown-monroe/1584192002/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Need to get from Cleveland to New York City? Probably not on this bus: https://www.cleveland19.com/2018/10/25/greyhound-bus-driver-gets-lost-cleveland-hours-his-way-new-york/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 9 hours ago, ns8401 said: Need to get from Cleveland to New York City? Probably not on this bus: https://www.cleveland19.com/2018/10/25/greyhound-bus-driver-gets-lost-cleveland-hours-his-way-new-york/ Amazing... But what bother's me, if I heard it correctly, the driver started the run in Toledo? Or was it just some passenger's? No way could he legally drive from Toledo to New York within 10 hours. Even if he started in Cleveland, all those hours driving around and returning to Cleveland, would have put him over hours driving to New York. It's one of the longest runs to begin with.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Why didnt he call the depot and ask for directions? Dont they provide a map to drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transit geek Posted October 27, 2018 Report Share Posted October 27, 2018 3 hours ago, Shaun said: Why didnt he call the depot and ask for directions? Dont they provide a map to drivers? Or perhaps they have GPS units. At least, that's what tour bus drivers frequently use, even though I can't tell whether it's provided by the company or is their personal device. Better still, have the GPS built into the dash (though it might become somewhat of a distraction, like a Tesla.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted October 27, 2018 Report Share Posted October 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Transit geek said: Or perhaps they have GPS units. At least, that's what tour bus drivers frequently use, even though I can't tell whether it's provided by the company or is their personal device. Better still, have the GPS built into the dash (though it might become somewhat of a distraction, like a Tesla.) Usually you bring your own GPS. Greyhound relies on paper turn by turn directions, no maps... Back to Richmond, VA we go where 4 buses were driverless and some passengers were there as long as 17 hours... the news crew was tossed off the property very quickly evidently... Greyhound is using the “back to school and end of summer passenger increase” line... a little late for that now... the crowds died down a while ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsbuspage Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 Fragmented bus service market emerges as Greyhound exits Western Canada Oct. 31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted November 2, 2018 Report Share Posted November 2, 2018 At the risk of this not being Greyhound: https://www.energeticcity.ca/2018/11/three-people-critically-injured-in-bus-crash/ Meanwhile in Fort Walton Beach, FL 2 people were shot and 1 of them was killed outside the station there... https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20181101/bus-station-shooting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted November 10, 2018 Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 A Greyhound driver passed out behind the wheel in Utah and a passenger jumped in to save the bus... 86655 hit the wall but there was only 1 minor injury... https://www.ksl.com/article/46423895/passenger-stops-bus-on-i-15-after-driver-loses-consciousness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 Thunder Bay has begun the process of getting a new use for its former Greyhound station... a car dealership... https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/zoning-amendment-approved-for-former-greyhound-terminal-property-1128488 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 10 hours ago, ns8401 said: Thunder Bay has begun the process of getting a new use for its former Greyhound station... a car dealership... https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/zoning-amendment-approved-for-former-greyhound-terminal-property-1128488 A role reversal from this old favorite of mine? https://www.google.com/search?q=former+acadian+lines+sydney+bus+terminal+photo&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CYdJPyoECbdmIjjBe5-39oeaco0eRefWMSkFjFWRe4EFVVGi94bZfGchBnq6j0uX3wwuFwCaSGniP_1rYy5fZNrJ3_1SoSCcF7n7f2h5pyEWV1jcWvjQ44KhIJjR5F59YxKQURk0KnXAzT-ZMqEgmMVZF7gQVVURE1AMJGjWBPTSoSCaL3htl8ZyEGEYiuSO9oZXXXKhIJerqPS5ffDC4Ra5KXjKTrnWMqEgkXAJpIaeI_1-hGIrkjvaGV11yoSCdjLl9k2snf9Ef-KM95A1aXq&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi91az3sOPeAhVFneAKHV0pDY8Q9C96BAgBEBg&biw=1920&bih=938&dpr=1#imgrc=h0k_KgQJt2YKDM: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 An unknown D4505 burned up in Oakland, CA tonight... nobody hurt. https://abc7news.com/traffic/greyhound-bus-catches-fire-on-eb-i-580-in-oakland/4809293/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 Manhattan Kansas now has Greyhound service on the run between Kansas City, Missouri and Salina, Kansas... was this an existing run or is Greyhound actually expanding somewhere for once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 Lost baggage? No problem for the Dallas Warehouse!: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Travelers-Say-Greyhound-Lost-Their-Luggage-Cant-Keep-Up-With-Bags-502011602.html Meanwhile a bus from Milwaukee to Chicago had a passenger threaten that there was a bomb on Board which caused a major scene on an Illinois freeway: https://abc7chicago.com/police-man-arrested-after-false-threat-to-blow-up-bus/4840953/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 On 12/2/2018 at 10:44 PM, ns8401 said: Manhattan Kansas now has Greyhound service on the run between Kansas City, Missouri and Salina, Kansas... was this an existing run or is Greyhound actually expanding somewhere for once? Looks like its a new added local from Kansas City to Salina...perhaps a state funded trip? Found it here, but not on the table 360 route.... http://bustracker.greyhound.com/routes/1329/I/Kansas_City_MO-Salina_e_KS/1329/12-06-2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 On 12/6/2018 at 11:00 PM, traildriver said: Looks like its a new added local from Kansas City to Salina...perhaps a state funded trip? Found it here, but not on the table 360 route.... http://bustracker.greyhound.com/routes/1329/I/Kansas_City_MO-Salina_e_KS/1329/12-06-2018 If it is new then that worries me a bit... word on the street has them interested in State funded routes again and Michigan is coming up in 2020 and the scuttlebutt is that Greyhound will bid for the U.P. Package of routes at least, so I’m concerned for obvious reasons especially if they try for the whole thing... they have the odd situation already of getting state buses but not receiving any subsidies for their routes... I’m not sure how this is playing out in other states but if they are indeed willing to jump head long into this sort of subsidized service I would imagine it would be similar and they would try to use their size to leverage the smaller carriers who may already have the contracts out of the way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 7 hours ago, ns8401 said: If it is new then that worries me a bit... word on the street has them interested in State funded routes again and Michigan is coming up in 2020 and the scuttlebutt is that Greyhound will bid for the U.P. Package of routes at least, so I’m concerned for obvious reasons especially if they try for the whole thing... they have the odd situation already of getting state buses but not receiving any subsidies for their routes... I’m not sure how this is playing out in other states but if they are indeed willing to jump head long into this sort of subsidized service I would imagine it would be similar and they would try to use their size to leverage the smaller carriers who may already have the contracts out of the way... That is interesting. Here all this time I was believing that Greyhound wasn't doing much except wholesale abandonment of their routes. As for state supported, the ones I am most familiar with are ones that have historically been Greyhound routes, and ones that no one else was at all interested in operating, such as some local's in Pennsylvania. That route between Ottumwa, Ia. and Missouri was a surprise...GL never ran that long dormant route originally, I recall it being operated by long defunct Missouri Transit Lines. Has Greyhound actually gone in and taken over a route operated by another carrier, in recent times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlingteam333 Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 Is Greyhound still using traitors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 I'm sure they aren't using traitors, but trailers yes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted December 19, 2018 Report Share Posted December 19, 2018 On 12/11/2018 at 9:53 AM, traildriver said: That is interesting. Here all this time I was believing that Greyhound wasn't doing much except wholesale abandonment of their routes. As for state supported, the ones I am most familiar with are ones that have historically been Greyhound routes, and ones that no one else was at all interested in operating, such as some local's in Pennsylvania. That route between Ottumwa, Ia. and Missouri was a surprise...GL never ran that long dormant route originally, I recall it being operated by long defunct Missouri Transit Lines. Has Greyhound actually gone in and taken over a route operated by another carrier, in recent times? I can’t recall one they outbid another operator for... it would be interesting to see if they have tried at all. Here in Michigan the Upper Peninsula routes were historically Greyhound routes and they had subsidized service on them later on but they decided not to bid in 2007 and Indian Trails took over. The three subsidized routes in the lower peninsula are a bit different... the one from Grand Rapids to St. Ignace was taken over by Indian Trails in 1990 from Shortway Northstar lines which was in the process of dying off. The Lansing to St. Ignace Route was abandoned in pieces from 1992 to 2004 by Greyhound. It was dormant from 2004 to 2007 when Indian Trails revived a simplified version of it. The Bay City to St. Ignace Route was given up by Greyhound when the big strike happened in 1990 and Indian Trails has run it ever since. I doubt Greyhound was making money on any of the routes and ran them at a loss offset by their profitable routes. Is it even viable to cover losses with profits like in the old days anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted December 19, 2018 Report Share Posted December 19, 2018 6 hours ago, ns8401 said: Is it even viable to cover losses with profits like in the old days anymore? With deregulation? Not a chance.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted December 23, 2018 Report Share Posted December 23, 2018 On 12/17/2018 at 7:31 PM, curlingteam333 said: Is Greyhound still using traitors? Trailers...I don't think they have any left....Im pretty sure they sold them all off at fire sale prices when they ran with their tail between their legs to the East!! The volume of GCX is pretty much nothing in the East! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted December 25, 2018 Report Share Posted December 25, 2018 Tis the season: Bomb threat evacuates Orlando’s Greyhound station: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-greyhound-station-orlando-bomb-scare-20181224-story.html El Paso had a sudden influx of folks at its Greyhound Station... ICE dropped 400 (!) migrants at the station.... that must have been a sight... https://www.ktsm.com/news/local/el-paso-news/200-immigrants-left-at-downtown-el-paso-bus-station/1673350866?apt_credirect=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 Couple accidents today: 30996 overturned in heavy rains in Jackson, Mississippi. The driver got a misdemeanor DUI. 22 injured none life threatening. https://www.wdsu.com/article/greyhound-driver-charged-with-dui-after-bus-overturns-in-jackson/25737169 Meanwhile on I-10 in Lake Charles, LA 7123 was severely damaged in a collision with a pickup truck: http://www.kplctv.com/2019/01/03/pickup-truck-greyhound-bus-collide-i-near-chloe-exit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 Posted January 5, 2019 Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 Apparently Greyhound is not so good at communicating with it’s customers when things go awry... https://kfor.com/2019/01/04/greyhound-bus-passengers-left-stranded-in-oklahoma-city-with-no-answers-for-more-than-3-hours/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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