They have very limited hours at this station. Get there yesterday at 1:30 pm. They are closed. 10 mins later they opened on a Saturday. Asked about bus. Find out bus will be 1 hr late. I sit outside to wait with my luggage. 3 more hours go buy. No update. I use the app to track bus.
Finally, it gets there. I board bus. A drunk screaming woman boards. Smelled awful and was rude and frightening. Turns out dozens of people waiting over this one drunk. She missed her transfer from DC to NY. She ended up at my location in MD. She yelled at the driver. He fixes it by having her sent by Uber back to DC.
Yes, bus was an hour late but we had to wait 3 more hours additionally due to Greyhound forcing us to wait for her. We were all stuck smelling her. We were relieved when she was removed and sent back by Uber.
This company location costed me my transfer to Pittsburgh. Due to being forced to wait on the alcoholic monster that messed up everyone's schedule even more. Sleep deprived now until tomorrow for more buses to take. Hungry and tired. Her mental problem became everyone else's. Not even an apology from them to us.
During the trip I figured out why this driver is so late. I saw him swerving on a small road. Texting looking at his phone. He was lost and was trying to look at his maps on his phone while driving. Turns out that Greyhounds here don't come with any navigation units installed on their dashes. They have no clue where to even drive too.
They aren't provided with any physical maps either. I had to look up the route for him and tell him where to go. He said it was a small town with small lettering so he couldn't read it well. Rather then pulling over to look at an Atlas he swerved like a crazy person.
I don't think he knew how to blow up a map either on his phone. Or if he did, maybe the phone was too slow at it. I mean it has WiFi but it's too slow. Apparently we were almost lost getting through Morgansville. I felt bad for our driver not being provided the tools he needed to drive better by this craptastic company. Many of my buses were lost or full due to the fiasco of the drunk woman.
Beware of this location Greyhound. Thank goodness it wasn't snowing out or I would of froze for 4 hours straight outside. Customer service seemed lacking after I politely asked about my bus. At that I knew I would have to use the app for my own sanity. Be prepared to wait outside for many hours. I guess if they are opened you could wait inside but there are bums that stink sleeping inside so watch out.
I think they could improve with longer hours, employed security guards for our safety. And installed nav units in all buses as well as providing hard current maps big in font size to their drivers. And by firing current employees and hiring employees with prior customer service experience only. They should keep a manager around on shift also at all times. Also why can't driver breaks be scheduled in between bus routes? They take breaks whenever they want. They should provide a sheltered area with seating for people to wait outside due to their weird hours.
Maybe schedule each bus and extra 10 to 15 minutes or even up to 20 more minutes before booking the drivers out again per stop. Maybe add more time for traffic, accidents, weather, driver breaks etc. Lack of organization causes too many delays for people and their schedules. As well as the drivers which affects the service and the service experience as a whole.
I can honestly say that Fredrick, MD. Greyhound location can't adhere to Greyhound standards of service. If all of Greyhound stations we're this way, why would they be in business after 100 years of service? It was only my first time using the service ever in my life but one can assume that the problem is in management of just this location. Or it appears at least, to me that way.
I mean, what if a bus brakes down. Things happen. I can accept a bus being one hour late. I can't accept 3 extra hours of waiting due to the drunk missing her own transfer in another state and making a fuss for hours. Making us even later than we already were. Why didn't they take her complaint inside and dealt with it there to Uber her back immediately and allowed the rest of us to leave? It just makes no sense to me at all.
People need to understand that it's not anyone's problem if you don't know where to switch buses at. I don't think bus drivers are paid and are supposed to baby sit everyone on the bus to each of their individual bus stops. People need to take responsibility for it and not take it out on the world. The company should of dealt with this better and swiftly at this location. That wasn't fair to us. read more