Greyhound Bus To Company-sponsored CDL Training

So I gotta ask since I'll be making the trip Friday.... How bad is the ride? What makes it so bad on the bus

My friend rode the bus. 17 hour trip. I guess it sucks because there isn't room to spread out, you could be surrounded by sick people and crying, and whining kids, hard to sleep, ect. However, it's all what you make of it. Bring a fully charged phone and some music, maybe and iPad for l a movie or two and you'll be fine!

So I gotta ask since I'll be making the trip Friday.... How bad is the ride? What makes it so bad on the bus

The biggest two problems with it are;

1. The trip takes a lot longer than if it was just a straight shot. Sometimes several hours longer. And

2. You're not usually traveling with the best of our society. However, I'm sure many of your traveling partners would go another way if they could afford it. So be nice, make a friend and you just might enjoy the ride. Hopefully it'll be your last on a Greyhound.

Good luck.

The ride is sloooooooooow and the seats not the most comfortable for napping along the way. And yes, not to sound like a snob, but the terminals tend not to be in the nicest parts of town and do attract some shady characters. I rode Greyhound direct Miami-LA many years ago when I was 18 - it was something like 80 hour' trip - and it was bad enough. One would have thought I'd learned my lesson! But many years later, when I left the USN, I decided to use the bus to get from San Angelo to Miami...not as long but still a day and two nights, AND I was then in my mid-thirties. Oy! If I were about to start CDL school in a distant city and was given the choice between the bus or the cash value of the ticket to arrange my own transport...I'd strongly consider digging into my own pocket and take the latter option, and fly there, as miserable s flying can be nowadays!

I have been on greyhound a number of times... mostly shorter trips between dallas and houston / san antonio but I also did NYC to boston and back (guess that was kind of a shorter trip too). I don't mind it that much. Almost all the buses have power ports now so I bring my laptop and external hard drive with my collection of movies... I'm good for a while :D

lot of times the driver stops for his break at place with food so you can get a bite to eat as well and stretch your legs.

i think taking a greyhound is a good way to prep for trucking... you're gonna be in a vehicle for long hours with limited stretching time and ability.

Got on the greyhound today to head to Denver for school in keenesberg. Heading out from Portland,Oregon head east on i-84. Apparently there was a two truck collision with fatalities and also involved hazmat. They closed the road. We been at the truck stop since 630. At 245 the driver told us greyhound is putting us up in a hotel. And we will leave around noon.

I am just worried about getting to school on time and getting situated. But at least greyhound is taking care of a bus load of 26 passengers

The greyhound buses here in California seem pretty nice to me. A lot of the people in them seem of questionable character, however. That kind of worked for me though because the women tended to sit next to and around me since I didn't look like a criminal. Plus the bus drivers were only speaking Spanish, and my Spanish is fairly limited. I decided I'd drive my car after the experience.

Best advice I can give is if possible try and get a seat next to tje emergency windows, they have a lot more leg roon than the other seats and you wont mind sitting next to someone as much if you are able to stretch out your legs.

I was on a Greyhound a few weeks ago from SW Florida to our Jacksonville terminal. The guy 2 seats up from me was peeing his pants and puking on the floor. Every breath burned my nose on that ride for hours. I told the driver to get him off the bus or else put up hazmat placards Lol.