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BravestDog · 05-27-2016, 06:35 PM

This made the local paper. New company called SleepBus.co will be shuttling passengers from SF to LA and LA to SF for $50 in a sleeper bunk using a Truck Conversion. Article says 12 passengers, 1 driver and 1 supervisor. Leaves at 11pm, arrives 6-7 hours later, and you can stay until 9am. Cost is $50 per person, increasing to $65 later on. Says they are ordering 10 more conversions.

My questions are

-can this be profitable at $600 per load SF to LA? $50 x 12

-can this be profitable at $780 per load SF to LA? $65 x 12

-would a bus conversion/MCI be a better vehicle than a truck conversion or is a truck conversion the correct vehicle? If a truck conversion is a better vehicle, why is Greyhound using MCI Buses?

Here is the article: New bunk bed-lined 'Sleepbus' drives riders from SF to LA overnight for less than $50 - SFGate

Website: sleepbus-home

05-27-2016, 06:35 PM	#1
BravestDog Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 748	SLEEP BUS. Transporting Passengers SF to LA in bunks for $50 in a Truck Conversion. This made the local paper. New company called SleepBus.co will be shuttling passengers from SF to LA and LA to SF for $50 in a sleeper bunk using a Truck Conversion. Article says 12 passengers, 1 driver and 1 supervisor. Leaves at 11pm, arrives 6-7 hours later, and you can stay until 9am. Cost is $50 per person, increasing to $65 later on. Says they are ordering 10 more conversions. My questions are -can this be profitable at $600 per load SF to LA? $50 x 12 -can this be profitable at $780 per load SF to LA? $65 x 12 -would a bus conversion/MCI be a better vehicle than a truck conversion or is a truck conversion the correct vehicle? If a truck conversion is a better vehicle, why is Greyhound using MCI Buses? Here is the article: New bunk bed-lined 'Sleepbus' drives riders from SF to LA overnight for less than $50 - SFGate Website: sleepbus-home __________________ "I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety." Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer, Sea and Land, 1874-1922.