Concerned about climate change? Just need a ride? Anyone who’s ever tried to organize a carpool knows that it can be difficult. You get everyone’s locations and gradually struggle to figure out who can pick up whom, where, and when. By the time you get to driving, you’re already tired out! Now there are free carpool-organizing services that can make your life just a little easier.
Pickup Pal is the most versatile of the carpool organizing services. When you’re organizing a large event, Pickup Pal is perfect for helping people figure out their own carpool connections so that you don’t need to do all of the work. Running a soccer tournament? A school fair? This is an excellent way to reduce your carbon footprint and help people get to the event, while avoiding playing matchmaker yourself. Sign up for a group account and simply send everyone the link. They can sign up, sign on, and look for a ride!
Divide the Ride is another free services that is focused on families. It’s a site designed for families who need to carpool regularly to an activity or to school. You enter your children’s activities on the online form, then you invite other families who also participate in those activities. The carpool services creates a carpool schedule for all of you.
Erideshare is a carpool service for adults who need a ride. If you want to share some of the space in your car or you need a ride to a job, you can look on this popular web site to determine whether anyone is going your way. It is also possible for an employer or a group of employees, exercise buddies, or friends to join the service and use it together to arrange rides within that group.
With gas prices rocketing up into the sillysphere, carpooling is becoming more and more of a logical option. Do you carpool? Do you use a system to figure out who’s going where, and when?
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