Swadian Hardcore
Engineer
Still worse than a hotel room. I do agree a Kenworth W900 with a flat-screen TV has got to be nice.
Nice, yes. But a truck is still a truck. Its wheelbase is is shorter than a bus, and its suspension, even with airbags, has to be calibrated to handle a much heavier GCW....You haven't driven some of the nicer products coming out of Volvo or Paccar, Railiner.
Oh, I agree....I would never drive a bus (or truck) with a sleeper-berth operation. In La Cuban's case, it might make sense economically. The length of their run would require two driver changes. And they would have to establish a driver base either in NY or somewhere in NC, in additon to their home in Miami. And that would require addtional expense as well....I just don't see the point of this. Why waste revenue seats for a sleeping berth when the driver is better off sleeping in a cheaper, more comfortable hotel room? And in a hotel room, he can get a shower, shave, and good food before and after each drive.There is a real sleeper berth on the La Cubana buses....look at that link, in the fifth slide....it is located just ahead of the restroom. It is a FHA-legal sleeper berth, just like on a tractor-trailer, that permits two driver's to go cross-country. No, I wouldn't like to drive that way, thankyou....but the ride is still better than in any truck on the road.....Yeah that doesn't seem like a good idea. The "co-driver" really can't be expected to get really restful sleep by kicking back in the front row. I guess if there was a real sleeping berth somewhere... it could work.
Same announcement my Greyhound driver gave after every. single. stop. I'm guessing it's an ongoing problem. But no safety announcements.Some of our Greyhound drivers on this trip did make safety announcements, besides insisting, "No smoking on this bus, and that means ANYWHERE on this bus!"
Except the transit buses in Seattle that have high-backed seats and parcel racks. Haha.You have to remember, transit buses do not have high-backed seats or parcel racks, so passengers in them can easily reach a red handle. Not in Greyhound.
They're Mexican seats. Anyway, the vinyl doesn't stain like the cloth did. The G4500 interior used to look like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/labanex/1030008138/in/faves-95851032@N07/.What's with the cruddy vinyl seats? I remember the Dog having beautiful cloth seats!
Here's a close-up of the seats: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95851032@N07/14616932479/in/photostream/.I prefer Greyhound's leather seats over cloth seats. The ones I've seen haven't been stained and had no smells to them. I can't say that for other buses I've travelled on or pictures I've seen of older Greyhound buses. Plus it gives a "premium" feel for passengers. It's the same reason why most airlines have switched to leather, seems like a no brainier to me.
For the record... I think it's leather in some sense of the word. It's not high quality single hide leather... but it's not straight up vinyl either.
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