Why no "bus cabin"?

[Geoff]

Airplanes have cabins, trains have cabins, and ships have cabins.  How come buses don't have cabins?

--Geoff

[Utahclaimjumper]

  A "cabin" is what you make it,, if you wish to call it that, then do so.>>>Dan

[Geoff]

  A "cabin" is what you make it,, if you wish to call it that, then do so.>>>Dan

You mean like "Moose Creek Cabin"?

--Geoff

[bevans6]

A "cabin" on a ship or an airplane is a separate space for a passenger or crew member.  If your bus has a separate space, then that's a cabin.  You could call the bathroom or the bedroom "The Captain's Cabin" and be well within normal usage for the term... 

Brian

[Dlsnow]

I travel with kids and indeed put up an insulated wall and door about 2 foot behind the back of the driver seat.

It does two good things.

1. quiets the noise while traveling and provides some separation from the chaos
2. insulates the living area of the bus for heating and cooling needs

it also removes the beautiful views out the front windshield so that is a downside.

[Oonrahnjay]

Airplanes have cabins, trains have cabins, and ships have cabins.  How come buses don't have cabins?

--Geoff  

      Doesn't the "cabin" in those situations imply a closed-off, secure, private area?  If a bus line offered a secure, closed-off area like a sleeping compartment, I'd call that a cabin.  But since we don't see things like that on commercial buses, I guess "buses don't have cabins".  When we install rooms as part of doing bus conversions, we think of them in house terms like a house anyone else lives in; we call areas "bedrooms", living rooms, bathrooms (or, like, washrooms, if we're like in Canada, there, eh??).  Maybe it works that this?

(Edit:  Brian and I were typing about the same time.  We seem to be thinking pretty much like.)

[oltrunt]

Living in a dead school bus down by the river---now that's a cabin.

[Geoff]

A Google search shows "cable car cabins" and "space craft cabins".  I have been on cable cars quite often being from San Francisco, and the operator sits in an open area, just like a bus driver.  Very interesting to see him operate the brakes and ring the bell.  Oh, as an addition that I forgot, (if anyone is interested), the cable cars in SF run on a continuous turning cable spool that every cable car in the city runs off of.  Before the Cable Operator can put on the brakes, he has to release the cable car from the cable, THEN put on the brakes.   I think he rings the bell as a warning when he releases the brake and grips onto the continuous turning cable.  You can ride the cable car to the main station and see the huge spool that runs the cable cars.  Just ignore the homeless and tell them Geoff sent ya.

--Geoff

[bevans6]

The place where the operator sits, if closed off, is the cockpit.   I don't think most buses have cockpits.

[lostagain]

When I drove for Vancouver Grayline in '79, I would occasionally drive one of the British Leland double deckers on city tours. The driver was separated from the rest of the bus in its own "cockpit" or "cabin". I don't remember calling it anything in particular.

JC

[windtrader]

I travel with kids and indeed put up an insulated wall and door about 2 foot behind the back of the driver seat.

It does two good things.

1. quiets the noise while traveling and provides some separation from the chaos
2. insulates the living area of the bus for heating and cooling needs

it also removes the beautiful views out the front windshield so that is a downside.

A plate of bank teller glass will solve all the issues. LOL

[Iceni John]

These days all the newer First Class and Executive Class buses south of the border have separate walled-off cabins for the passengers, separating them from the driver(s).   It makes it quieter inside, nice at night time, and you can't hear whatever noxious music the driver has on for his own entertainment.   Most folk there don't care about what's ahead or outside the bus  -  they just want to sleep, play on their cellphone, snog, eat, listen to noxious music, whatever, without outside distractions, even during the daytime.

So yes, some buses do have cabins.

John

[Geoff]

Everybody has heard of the cab of the truck.  Cab used here is actually "cabin" of the truck shortened, and is described as the operator's and passenger enclosed area.

This whole thing is getting too far out.  I quit.

--Geoff

[daddysgirl]

My parts book has a few pages with optional parts that separated the driver. The driver's seat is lower anyway, and they had modesty or privacy panels that went behind and above the drivers head. 

[Jim Eh.]

Hmmm, my bus is my "cabin".