airwolf Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 It's already started. CBL 941 ran an overload from Vancouver to Kamloops this morning at 09:00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeco Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 YEs overloads are unavoidable at christmas, and sometimes u just can help it if u have 60 bye passengers u have to overload u dont have much of a choice!! And I think Christmas this year should be much better as we got the excellent team of former Kamloops dispatchers working this year so I think they will and already have been a big help in Burlington!! Plus I think they have more drivers this year augmenting over christmas and more buses to make things transition a little better!! If drivers pull manifests for regularly full schedules then u know how many purchased tickets u have enroute, Thats an easy way to avoid situations in smaller places when ur full or close to it! It's pretty much guaranteed at least 2-3 out of the 4 TCH schedules between Vancouver and Calgary will run 2 sections through Christmas.And the Midnight Edmonton to Saskatoon for sure! Also many of the Edmonton to Calgary schedules and Edmonton-Kamloops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCT-3122-D800-10240 Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Spotted National Motor Coach #195 parked and idling at the Greyhound Depot in Calgary late last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TC60102N Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Spotted Dallas Coach 9622, 2716, 2425 and2718 doing Greyhound overloads yesterday and today To add, GTA is down here with those knock off third party SETRA buses, Quantum limo 3079 and the recently acquired Ex niagara scenic tour bus (blue H3) Peter left a while ago with his #66 a MCI 102 looking sharp in its ex Parkinson livery. Great Canadian also had a bus in the platform with a greyhound sign in the window. @ Toronto coach terminal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prevost Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 What do you mean by "knock off third party SETRA buses"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TC60102N Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 They have some buses that are apparently built "in house" on a Frieghtliner frame and they greatly resemble a Setra inside and have a few Setra features on the exterior. I'll try to remember to upload a picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 I'm going from Edmonton to Calgary from the main depot tomorrow @ 8am. What is the probability that I will get bumped to a later trip? I bought my ticket two weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck600 Posted December 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Depends on whether or not you made a reservation for that trip or not, if you reserved you have a guaranteed seat, if you didn't reserve you'll have to take your chances that you might be able to find space on the overload. Keep in mind that people between Edmonton & Calgary will have reserved seats so the overload or the regular sched could leave Edmonton with empty seats to pick up people further down the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megabus Rider Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 They have some buses that are apparently built "in house" on a Frieghtliner frame and they greatly resemble a Setra inside and have a few Setra features on the exterior. I'll try to remember to upload a picture They're a common sight at Pearson Airport transporting Air Line Crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
translink fan Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Saw a CBL 2012 H3-45 at Pacific central doing overloads from the skytrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transit 20 Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 kunkel 481-510 was doing overload trips out of kitchener today not sure if it was toronto or london. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwolf Posted December 25, 2013 Report Share Posted December 25, 2013 I'm going from Edmonton to Calgary from the main depot tomorrow @ 8am. What is the probability that I will get bumped to a later trip? I bought my ticket two weeks ago.If you got a ticket you are assured of a seat on the schedule you are ticketed for. You can change the trip for a fee provided the ticketed schedule hasn't departed already. The computer is programed not to allow ticket sales for a trip if they have no seats left. If there is an overload planned they allow the extra capacity in the computer system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCT-3122-D800-10240 Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Canada West H3-40 #736 was parked at the Greyhound Depot in downtown Calgary earlier this afternoon and more than likely waiting to work a Greyhound overload assignment: http://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=File:Canada_West_Coach_Lines_736-a.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwolf Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 CBL 5202 made an appearance on the Greyhound Christmas overload scene in Vancouver on December 23. If I wasn't busy loading my own Christmas overload from Vancouver to Prince George I would have caught a photo or two. CBL 939 an 950 made their presence known in Vancouver yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwolf Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 I'm currently conducting on Pacific Western 3004 running overload service on Schedule 5035 from Prince George to Vancouver. Nice riding D4505. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prevost Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 I saw a CBLBC brand new Prevost H3-45 doing an overload run to Kamloops several days ago. Does anyone know why CBLBC would give Greyhound such a new bus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
translink fan Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Whatever is available I guess. Doesn't matter new or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCT-3122-D800-10240 Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Yesterday evening, I spotted Canada West #738 at the Calgary Greyhound depot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwolf Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 So last night I had CBL 925 overloading me on 5126 from Vancouver to Kamloops. Canada West 735 took over in Kamloops on 5004 to Calgary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck600 Posted December 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Prevost you ask this question every year. CBL has the overload contract for Greyhound, when it's a busy situation like Christmas every serviceable coach is put into service, it's all about moving people, every coach is on deck along with every driver. In the 90's when I was at Quick the owners of CBL & Quick would be driving at Christmas. If you drove by CBL's yard prior to Christmas I would expect you would find the yard empty or nearly empty. Again when it's busy like this everything goes and I would expect the H3-45's would be among the first coaches to go out, sometimes 5 or 6 extra seats might be the difference between running two sections or having to add a 3rd section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transit 20 Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Dallas 2007 was at charles street doing greyhound overload so was kunkal 482 today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prevost Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Prevost you ask this question every year. CBL has the overload contract for Greyhound, when it's a busy situation like Christmas every serviceable coach is put into service, it's all about moving people, every coach is on deck along with every driver. In the 90's when I was at Quick the owners of CBL & Quick would be driving at Christmas. If you drove by CBL's yard prior to Christmas I would expect you would find the yard empty or nearly empty. Again when it's busy like this everything goes and I would expect the H3-45's would be among the first coaches to go out, sometimes 5 or 6 extra seats might be the difference between running two sections or having to add a 3rd section. Haha, sorry. you know it's been a year and I forgot I have asked the question already. What I guess I want to say is you would think they would give the nicer/newer coaches to tour contracts instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
translink fan Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 In the middle of winter I would doubt there are many tours going on. Anyways, how long do these overloads go on for? Till January? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck600 Posted December 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Exactly next to no tour contracts in Winter other then transfers to Whistler and hockey team contracts, besides any contact work outside of Greyhound would have been taken into account beforehand and the coach needed would be have been assigned already. Say for example the Vancouver Giants(I think CBL still has this contract and has a coach wrapped for the team) are playing over the Christmas holiday, in the days or days prior the coach used by the Giants might work overloads for Greyhound but they will only send it out on stuff like Whistler or Nanaimo trips so they can have it in town when they need it. Same thing if they have a specific driver assigned to the Giants work CBL will make sure he will have enough hours available to do the Giants trip by either assigning another driver to the Giants coach while it's doing Greyhound work or by scheduling the driver in such a way he will have the hours available to drive the Giants or scheduling days off for him so he can "reset" his hours of service. http://www.todaystrucking.com/hours-of-service-canada-us-comparison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TC60102N Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Dallas 2623 did the 2:30 Toronto-Ottawa Express today 2007 did the Kitchener Local 2425 did the Toronto-Ottawa at 6am Yesterday Dallas 9622 did the London Local from Toronto and Toronto Local from London 2007 did the Kitchener/Guelph Local 2425 sat as a spare downtown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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