What a miserable experience. Left last Thursday for the 14 hour bus ride to Allentown, PA, for orientation with Werner trucking, and now I'm doing the 14 hour bus ride back so I can start the 6 weeks of trading in South Boston, VA. I think kids could fit comfortably in the seats, but not adults.
When I trained with USX, they let me buy a plane ticket and reimbursed me the difference for the bus ticket. Funny thing is, the plane ticket was cheaper! I never understood why they automatically put you on a bus, when the airfare is usually cheaper.
You are keeping the business model alive. FirstGroup is solely land based freight logistics (People are freight too.). The more freight that's trucked (people are freight too) the longer you keep the dream alive. Aerospace is the enemy.
My first ride on Greyhound was from Fort Belvoir, VA to Miami, FL. IIRC, it was 31 hour trip. This was in 1987. The bus was full. What I remember, backseat suck. Change overs are always in suspect location. What I will never understand, is how my bags made it to Miami before I did. I ventured onto Grehound back in 2002 or 2003 from Tallahassee, FL to St. Louis to pick up an ex-Air Force Cargo Van (turned into a toy-hauler). Little difference in experience. The cost of travel via bus is contradictory to rationale. In my experience actual travel costs: Planes<Buses<Trains. My choice if time permit, drive!
Well, I'm too wide a load to fit in those seats. Has anybody ever been to a bus terminal where the food (if available) was somewhere close to decent?
I had the chance to take a 24 hour bus ride from Denver to Indianapolis. I'm glad I took a flight instead.
I don't recall. I remember a burger, dry, with something yellow sticking to it being reference as cheddar cheese. Food quality: bus terminal<train depot<airport
Hey D...think of it as initiation to when you start driving the big rigs. This was just a test to see if you can handle it. Good job on passing the test
I once spent 70 hours one way from Pensacola to San Diego on greyhound. Then had to come back! Torture, pure torture.
They killed Kenny!... That raft trip was pretty cheap and still paying dividend. Imagine that, buses with bathroom. Who would have thunk it.
I once needed to pick up a car in Cali, so I took a Greyhound bus from Phoenix to Los Angeles. NEVER AGAIN. It seems humans can only control their bodily functions for about 1.5 hours. After that, it was like everyone turned into animals. Uncontrolled burping, farting, shitting, snoring, crying. I died a little inside during that trip.
