Great PR for Greyhound

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by PackRatTDI, Sep 27, 2014.

  1. WisconsinF150

    WisconsinF150 Light Load Member

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    "No touch" Freight. The baggage guys load your bus. Some terminals even use forklifts for heavy pallets going in the storage below the bus.
     
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  3. ajohnson

    ajohnson Medium Load Member

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    I can only imagine the wonderful people that you had to deal with........
     
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  4. SHOJim

    SHOJim Road Train Member

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    Just don't get thrown under the same bus you drive
     
  5. WisconsinF150

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    Tons of bad stuff on Greyhounds. Murders, suicides, jumpers, rapes, thefts, sniper attacks in Texas, (both Houston and Temple) , shootings, guy jumping off bus into guard rail between Houston and New Orleans (after shooting a guys finger off), gun running, drug running, bombs on bus in Columbus, bombs in luggage in Pittsburgh lost and found, drivers being attacked at 70 mph by passengers, hijackings (app 2 a year), schizophrenics attacking passengers, ppl putting grandpa on bus using a 3 month pass, just living on bus (actually pretty common), tossing grandma on the bus who has alzheimers (also common), europeans and amish, neither of whom bathe.

    And don't forget about all those people who were conceived in the bus' bathroom and brag about it.

    I almost forgot about the gypsies who ride Greyhound from town to town stealing from the bus, the terminals, and the towns across America.

    There was a guy in L.A. he accidentally dropped his dentures in the toilet. When they dumped the contents into the drain, He reached down, picked his dentures up, rinsed them off and stuck them right back in his mouth.

    We had an assassination on a bus in St. Paul. A car pulls up to the loaded bus at the terminal. Guy walks onto the bus, casually walks to back of bus, sits down next to a guy, pulls out a gun and shoots the guy in the head and casually walks off the bus and into his car and leaves.

    Once I was going from San Diego to Phoenix (I transferred city to city a few times). 25 yr old guy with his brains all scrambled (drugs??) hey driver, you're going the wrong way Phoenix is west of San Diego. I told him if we go west we'll be in the ocean. He said: yeah we've gotta go through the ocean to get to phoenix.

    He was spookin me out so I did the old "coca cola routine" on him. I pulled into a convenience store and said hey buddy I'm dyin' of thirst can you help me out? Go in and get me a coke, just tell 'em it's for the driver. He goes inside, I close the door and haul A_ _ :)
     
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  6. PackRatTDI

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    MCI designed their buses to have a 30 year service life, so not surprising it would survive.
     
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  7. PackRatTDI

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    Then throw in that many body parts are interchangeable from the MC-8 model to the last version of the MC-12 and you have 35 years worth of spare parts.
     
  8. WisconsinF150

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    There used to be a company I found online that sells a $10,000 kit which included lights and body panels to make an MC-9 look like an MC-12. It was for people who bought old MC-9's for motor homes.
     
  9. PackRatTDI

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    El Paso/Los Angeles Limousine Express based here in El Paso used similar kits to update their 102A3's to look like the newer D3's they also run.
     
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  10. PackRatTDI

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    They sold their MC9's to the Soccorro ISD for their activity buses years ago. As far as I know they still run them.

    My daughter goes to Ysleta ISD and they have 3 relatively new MCI J4500 and one older Dina Viaggio coaches in their activity bus fleet.
     
  11. Lepton1

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    Put them to work doing Level Ones. You KNOW they are over qualified.
     
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