VRL Travels, SRS Travels Bangalore, Sea Bird Tourist operates the maximum number of services from Hubli to Bangalore route.
No movie was played on the coach, as it was a late night service, and passengers generally prefer to sleep without disturbance. A well dressed in-uniform VRL crew gets disciplined driving and crew management training at their headquarters at Varur, Hubballi, which makes them perfect for their job. First bus from Bengaluru to Pune is 2+2, SCANIA MULTI-AXLE SEMI SLEEPER, AC, VIDEO bus, run by SRS Travels, that departs at 06:00 hours from Bengaluru. It take about 14:00 hours to reach Pune from Bengaluru. Currently, 30 bus operators operate on the route, daily.
The driving was sedate with the Volvo multiaxle cruising at an average speed of around 70 - 80 kmph. Daily, 102 Buses run from Bengaluru to Pune. There was a pick up at Gandhinagar, before we finally hit the NH4 highway at around 21:25 hrs, towards Dharwad, enroute Bengaluru. At around 21:10 hrs, we finally left Triveni. There was a delay of around 10 minutes from the scheduled departure timing of 21:00 hrs, due to late passenger arrival. SEATING LAY OUT OF VRL VOLVO B9R MULTIAXLE SEMI SLEEPER With almost a packed bus, I booked my seat in the second last row of the coach on the VRL online bus ticket portal (Seat No : 40 encircled in red in the seating layout shown below). As i searched on the VRL Online portal, I selected a Belagavi origin VRL Volvo B9R Multiaxle to Bengaluru, with departure timing of 21:00 hrs from Triveni, Belagavi with an estimated arrival time of 06:15 hrs in the morning, at Anand Rao Circle, Bengaluru. With the holiday season on, and buses going totally packed, it was almost difficult to find seats in the front rows of buses. Having taken continuous to and fro journeys with my regular tourmate - SRS Travels, I decided to try a VRL Volvo B9R Multiaxle this time, to Bengaluru. There was a sudden plan for a Bengaluru visit on 2nd May 2018, and i was busy packing my bags and scheduling a journey plan.
It was only three days past, that i was back to Belagavi from a three months trip to my native of Guwahati (Assam).