why are buses called coaches when the driver is in the same compartment as the passengers?

Answer 1

I think they're just trying to use a different term. Somehow, "coach" sounds better than "bus" according to some people. Many bus drivers nowadays are referred to as coach operators. Personally, I think it's nonsense. A bus is a bus.

Unlike most politically-correct language, this is nothing new. For years, signs along streets in Detroit read "board coach here" instead of simply saying "bus stop." Not sure if they still do.

Answer 2

Coaches do long journeys. They took over from the stagecoach and compete in the same market as passenger trains and internal flights offered by airlines.

Busses move people short distances around towns and between nearby villages.

Nowadays the difference is normally the seats, busses have bench seats and coaches have individual ones. coaches have seatbelts whereas busses do not.

The line is blurred by the fact that school busses can be either private service busses or coaches.

Answer 3

The term coach, goes back to the days of stage coaches, when that was the luxurious ride of the time. A motor coach is the modern day stage coach.

Answer 4

coach definition is something for passengers to ride in like stagecoach etc.

Answer 5

I don't know. Why are football field bosses called coaches when nobody rides in them?

Answer 6

It is in reference to the old days. The driver does have his own space.

Answer 7

jsut a word. nothing special