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Tim Reed
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Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 04-11-2008 11:10 PM
I will happily NOT recommend Greyhound as I have had nothing but BAD experiences with them. First, it is not a bargain because they stop EVERYWHERE! It takes forever just to get down the road this way.
Secondly, their employees can be very rude, lackadaisical, ignorant, and downright shiftless. Many of them don't smile or say thank you, and fairly act like you are an interruption to their day. They are union and figure they by-god don't HAVE to treat you well. It's difficult for them to get fired, so consequently they don't seem to give a .
The drivers almost always speed and make unsafe maneuvers on the road, as well. Believe me, I saw them do dangerous stuff around my truck and others, every day, back when I was a driver.
But the employees aren't the only bad thing about riding Greyhound, nope... I've been on Greyhounds that had incidents with drunken passengers ("strictly" forbidden, so they say), belligerent rednecks, and one guy who kept hollering about child molestation and how he was going to kill the driver if he didn't stop telling him to shut up! Child Molester was also making threats to other passengers. Do you think the driver put this dude off the ride... or that any other driver did anything to keep us safe? Oh, they'd SAY they were going to do something, put the dangerous people off the bus, but I never saw anyone do anything to keep order on a Greyhound bus.
Not very long ago, a driver caused me to miss my connection for home early one evening, by refusing to let me board his bus to Grand Central Station -- saying I had the wrong bus to where I was ultimately headed. I needed to go to Philly, not NYC, says he. Never mind that the tickets and itinerary clearly showed I had the right bus, right gate, and right time! Made no difference to this guy. Well, the ticketing agents at this terminal had already gone for the day, so I had no one who could confirm it for me. Meantime, the guy drives his bus away and I had no choice but to go to the gate he told me to. He was right, I WOULD get home from Philly... BUT NOT FOR ANOTHER 12 HOURS!! I never was so P.O.d!
I slept in the little tiny plastic seats of the Philadelphia bus station all night, no money and hungry, with vagrants and drunks running in and out all night; talking to themselves, singing out loud, and harrassing people. Plus, I was very ill from a spinal condition, which was aggravated by the extended rides and then trying to sleep across those damned seats!
When I told the employee on duty at the window about the screw up... do you think they did anything to make good on it? I mean, after all, it was their dumb ass driver who'd gotten me into the mess to begin with? She had me fill out a form, so she could give me ONE DOLLAR for a vending machine "meal"!!
That episode was the last straw for me and Greyhound. I will NEVER ride with them again.
Good luck, if you go.
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