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According to the Greyhound website (if you search through "book a trip"), there are 3 buses every day from Bloomington, IN to Indianapolis, IN:

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It looks like the schedule numbers are constant and do not depend on the day. I tried looking up these schedules on bus tracker and got "No schedules found". And if I try searching through "SEARCH BY DEPARTURE CITY OR ARRIVAL CITY" instead of "SEARCH BY SCHEDULE NUMBER", there are no buses from Bloomington, IN. Also, these 3 routes are not displayed in this list.

Is this some kind of bag with the Greyhound website? Does the the tracking option not work for this route?

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The Greyhound BusTracker is not available for every bus on every route, as it depends on the location and transmission equipment being installed and operational on the vehicle.

In particular, note that not all tickets sold on Greyhound.com are actually operated by Greyhound itself, as Greyhound is a major broker for tickets on numerous partner bus lines. This is analogous to airline codesharing. If you view the actual itinerary, there is a section marked "Operating Carrier."

In this case, Greyhound does not actually run any buses between Bloomington to Indianapolis, which explains its absence from the route list and from BusTracker. When you buy a ticket on Greyhound.com, you are actually buying a ticket for Hoosier Ride, which Greyhound sells on behalf of its partner, Miller Transportation. Hoosier Ride, unfortunately, does not appear to offer anything like BusTracker.

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