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Charters' Dominance of Trailways Transportation System

 
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Dieseljim
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:06 am    Post subject: Charters' Dominance of Trailways Transportation System Reply with quote

With Peter Pan and Concord Coach Lines being among the companies to drop their Trailways affiliations,it seems to me that the dominance of the charter and tour only lines of the Trailways Transportation System is serving to ruin the venerable TRailways name, especially as more and more line run carriers pull out. One way would be to seperate the Charter operators by assigning them a division called CHARTERWAYS and restricting the use of the Trailways name to those carriers offering regular line run service. I find it hard to believe that venerable name in bus transportation, especially line run service, could be allowed to be so thoroughly trashed in this manner. I believe the Trailways Transportation System should revert to the National Trailways Bus System, a brand name that stands for quality just as Greyhound does. I believe there is still room for two transcontinental bus systems
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HwyHaulier




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Location: Harford County, MD

PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dieseljim -

I must say I'm a bit puzzled of where you are trying to go with this. So, some research from the three sources (below). In any case, whether
current day Greyhound or Trailways organizations, both are running policies right out of a good marketing text. That is, for the most part, both
promoting unitary, national brand names with wide customer recognition.

Trailways site clearly explains, in the text which is more mission statement than anything else, its own perceptions of itself whereby it serves
markets not of interest to Greyhound. Within its Association, might we infer members believe one unified name is much more important than
a menu of services with differing public names? IMHO, subtle questions don't arise internally about differences between scheduled line runs,
and on call, as need charters.

In your message here, I wonder if you imply good arguments for specialty (or, market subset) strategies? That is, something along the lines of
scheduled runs as, say, Trailways "Red Star" service, and possible premium offerings reviving (CTS) Trailways "Five Star" name?

Consider the way an unnamed railroad charges exhorbitant fares on its so called premium offerings, and there is a possible opportunity for
competing highway premium services. The trouble with the rail: It still only is best on downtown to downtown timings, in most cases. People
do have ways of wanting to travel between many, other city pairs!

http://www.trailways.com/about.asp
http://www.greyhound.com/HOME/en/About/About.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Bus

.........FWIW...........Vern...........
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