OK here's the scoop!
There is/was a charter bus company Called Midnight Ride Inc. that operated out of Flushing, NY.
I also have heard they also were listed as operating in Matthews, NC.
I need to find out anything I can about this company. It seems they were the original owners of our 2 2005 Setra S417's and they had some problems with them that were never corrected and they gave them back! We are trying to locate any info on them that we can.
Thanks BK!
Bryce Gaston Jr.
731-885-7460
270-705-1139 cell
http://brooklyn.citysearch.com/profile/7369785/flushing_ny/midnight_ride_incorporated.html (http://brooklyn.citysearch.com/profile/7369785/flushing_ny/midnight_ride_incorporated.html)
Midnight Ride Incorporated
(917) 623-9209
4145 150TH St
Flushing, NY 11355 40.7284 -73.9429
Hello BK , http://www.midnightride.net/here (http://www.midnightride.net/here) is this them?
Hello BK , drop the : /here that is not part of the link sorry that is the Mathews NC location Good Luck! Hope to see you soon!! GFC
While trying to help BK, I came across this tour bus site. Take a look.
http://www.themidnightrider.com/ (http://www.themidnightrider.com/)
Even dropping the /here, I am getting a "server not found" error on that web address.
Here is their Manta record:
http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_0rlz6p (http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_0rlz6p)
It provides the last known phone and address for the NC operation. From the "Reports" tab, depending on how seriously you need to find them, you can also order DNB reports there that might lead you to the owners. Probably the $13 report would get the owners/officers names. Then you might find them via Google.
Bryce.
Look at the buses or some old pictures real close for some old DOT numbers. They have never used that name or had any authority registered with DOT under that name according to DOT SAFER. No name even close to that for those citys, even just using the word MIDNIGHT.
Looks like MCI delivered a 102-EL3 to them in 1999
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/TORONTO/builders/mciE.html (http://www.angelfire.com/ca/TORONTO/builders/mciE.html)
It looks like they may not exist any longer but this company is at the same address
http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7398598/flushing_ny/one_if_by_land_tours_inc.html (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7398598/flushing_ny/one_if_by_land_tours_inc.html)
http://oneifbylandtours.com/ (http://oneifbylandtours.com/)
Even has a Setra on their page!
Makes sense that it might be the same company, "The midnight ride of Paul Revere,....One if by land" etc.
Hello http://www.midnightride.net/ (http://www.midnightride.net/) Phone: (704) 814-6956 1104 Dumont Ct
Matthews, NC 28104
Stewart Weisberg (704) 814-6956 1104 Dumont Ct,Matthews, NC 28104
Same guy, looks like midnight website is gone.
Found this ,on page 26 of 33
http://www.nccommerce.com/NR/rdonlyres/4216B17C-F376-4898-821D-9568FF428DB3/0/ABA2009NorthCarolinaLeads.pdf (http://www.nccommerce.com/NR/rdonlyres/4216B17C-F376-4898-821D-9568FF428DB3/0/ABA2009NorthCarolinaLeads.pdf)
Called my daughter Mary 40 minutes ago, she was on the L.I.Express way 2 exits away,and got off to check the address for me it is a beauty boutique in a residential neighborhood as per the Goo Goo search Google the NC address and comes up the same , another residential area.
The link above shows Weisberg is connected and this one if bus co lists Charlotte,NC and NYC as tour city destinations . bye! ;D
Also (917) is designated for cell service in the city as I was just informed by my Darling LiL' one in Queens LOL
Van
Bryce, you mentioned a few weeks ago that you have the "05 in the shop getting warranty "updates" that weren't done. Are you having electrical issues or ?? My '03 Prevost has a boatload of warranty work that has come up. From steering box/frame cracks to power steering hose failures.
Hey guys thanks for the info some of it I had already found and some of it is new too me! Of course it is ALL appreciated, as we are trying to locate anyone from the company who can give us some insight as to what happened between them & Setra.
I was really fishing to see if anyone personally had any knowledge of the company or any of it's employees current or former!
The name Stewart Weisberg keeps popping up on all the INC documents in all 3 locations. So I guess for now I am going to concentrate my efforts there.
We are having some issues with what has been done/not done and getting run arounds about it from Setra. I have spent numerous hrs running back and forth to Greensboro, NC and back with these 2 coaches. To have "recall" stuff done by them and every time they claim what ever it was that "IT HAD TO COME TO SETRA" for had already been done, but not documented under one of the 2 prior owners!
So I am trying to see if I can track down the previous owners to see what experiences they had, and why they "unloaded them" so new with so few miles on them. (for all I know they could have been repo'd too)
Anyway that is the short & long of it!
Thanks again and let me know if anyone comes up with anything else.
;D BK ;D
come on Bryce, I thought you had a growing relationship with Setra...after all, they set you up with a loaner, didn't they?
Hello , or did they 'set him up' with a loaner? LOLcouldn't resist the play on words hope you get it no offense ;D intended just a funny phrase....GFC
Yeah, the "loaner" was a "loner" because nobody wanted it. :D
Sounds like he got a couple free lunches out of the deal.
Sorry Bryce. I've been there. Misery loves company!!
Quote from: DaveG
come on Bryce, I thought you had a growing relationship with Setra...after all, they set you up with a loaner, didn't they?
Yes they did! And let's see that loaner cost us a good customer right off the bat because it shook terribly on their way home from Myrtle Beach, SC.
Then it caused us more grief several days later on a 3 day 12 bus move when NONE of the farmers we were hauling would ride on it and one even told my dad
"that white bus yer boy drives is nice, BUT WE GOT JOHN DEERE TRACTORS THAT RIDE BETTER THAN IT DOES!" Then the next day it cost us more $ by breaking down on the way to pick up a group. (brakes locked up at a stop light!)
And on top of all that we had to make 6 trips back and forth swapping it out AT OUR EXPENSE! (they even charged us for the fuel they said they put in our bus when they test drove it!)
So in all we were out 12 days travel, $3,000 in fuel, $400 in hotel rooms, $1120 driver pay (when I took a co-driver, and meals, & etc.
OK and now all this was supposedly so they could do all the re-call stuff that had to be done! but we haven't found where they did ANY thing they said was going to be done. And they "found" this & that that needed repaired @ our costs!
So no I ain't real pleased @ this moment!
And
Quote from: Chuck Newman
Sounds like he got a couple free lunches out of the deal.
Sorry Bryce. I've been there. Misery loves company!!
NO not even ONE!
>:( BK :(