Coach

Coach

1) A passenger vehicle constructed to carry more than 16 people besides the driver, weighing more than 7.5 tonnes gross weight and capable of exceeding 60 mph. The term usually implies a vehicle more comfortably furnished than the spartan fittings found in most service buses.

Many, especially those used for long-distance touring holidays, are positively luxurious having on-board toilets, cooking facilities (ie microwave ovens) and TV for showing video films, PA systems for the tour guide’s commentary and radio/tape music played to individual seats (as on aircraft) for listening with headphones.

Source: David Lowe. The Dictionary of Transport and Logistics. Kogan Page, 2002. – P.43 (288 p.)