why greyhound? why?

you can get a monthly pass for like 300 and ride ride ride....

 

There's a bunch of those Chinese bus companies; you can travel hundreds of miles for $50 bucks. Those waitresses in the Chinese restaurants know the secret. They will stop anywhere to pick you up and let you off anywhere you want. Can smoke and take a small cooler of beer.

 

Most obvious reasons I think would be cheap and no other means of transportation.

 

LOL, graduated Basic traing in Ft. Leonard wood Mo. Drill Sgt said Greyhound bus would take us to the airport to fly to Columbia S. carolina
for more training. He gave us the middle finger and smiled as the bus pulled away. LOL Bus ride all the way to S.carolina, SUCKED.

 

Apparently, there's a Greyhound bus museum in Hibbing, Minn.( I know, I'm running) that is supposed to be pretty cool. I heard of a book called, "Hounds of the Road" documenting the history and drivers stories over the years, that is supposed to be pretty interesting.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4146973]Apparently, there's a Greyhound bus museum in Hibbing, Minn.( I know, I'm running) that is supposed to be pretty cool. I heard of a book called, "Hounds of the Road" documenting the history and drivers stories over the years, that is supposed to be pretty interesting.[/QUOTE]

PBS's Jim Lehrer is a bus enthusiast and I saw a piece he did on that museum once.

 

Get some money together. There's never a reason to be broke.

 

Truck driving has a very high turn over rate. For example a 400 truck company will hire about eight drivers a week to fill seats. Three of them drivers won't make it through orientation. They'll fail the medical, drug test or background check. Three more of them drivers will quit within 6 months. That leaves two good hires out of eight. Most likely they'll quit within three years. Very few have longevity. Now take a company like Swift that has 16,000 drivers. They are herding them through like cattle. With mega carriers any penny pinching means big bucks. Swift again, save $5 across the drivers and you saved $80,000. Save $200 on transportation to school and they saved $3.2 million. It's not chump change. That's one reason driver's get nickeled and dimed to death on their paychecks. It adds up.