Greyhound. "Founded in 1914, Greyhound Lines, Inc. is
the largest provider of intercity bus transportation, serving more
than 2,300 destinations with 13,000 daily departures across North
America. It has become an American icon, providing safe, enjoyable
and affordable travel to nearly 25 million passengers each year. The
Greyhound running dog is one of the most-recognized brands in the
world.
While Greyhound is well known for its regularly scheduled
passenger service, the company also provides a number of other
services for its customers. Greyhound PackageXpress service offers
value-priced same-day and early-next-day package delivery to
thousands of destinations. And the company's Greyhound Travel
Services unit offers charter packages for businesses, conventions,
schools and other groups at competitive rates.
Greyhound has three operating subsidiaries in the United States,
which are a part of the nationwide Greyhound network. They
include: Valley Transit Company, serving the Texas-Mexico border,
Crucero USA, serving southern California and Arizona into Mexico,
and Americanos USA, serving points in Mexico from Texas and New
Mexico.
In addition, Greyhound has interline partnerships with a number
of independent bus lines across the United States. These bus
companies provide complementary service to Greyhound Lines' existing
schedules and link to many of the smaller towns in Greyhound Lines'
national route system.
Amtrak passengers use Greyhound to make connections to cities not
served by rail on Amtrak Thruway service, by purchasing a ticket for
the bus connection from Amtrak in conjunction with the purchase of
their rail ticket. If passengers desire, they may also buy a bus
ticket directly from Greyhound.
For travel within Canada, Greyhound Canada carries millions of
passengers across the country's provinces and territories each year.
The company also provides Greyhound Courier Express package delivery
service to its various Canadian locations.
For those within Mexico who wish to travel by Greyhound in the
United States, Greyhound subsidiary Greyhound de Mexico can sell
Greyhound tickets at one of more than 100 agencies located
throughout Mexico. The agencies also sell tickets for several
Mexican bus companies, like Estrella Blanca, which connect to
Greyhound service at the United States-Mexico border cities."
