Benefits
Save on Daily Fuel Costs & Parking Fees, while maintaining the convenience of travelling by car to Work, Events, School or just a one off Trip.
Register now, and create a CarPool, Event Pool, SchoolPool or Trip!! Or just register and wait to be automatically notified of a CarPool or Trip in your area.
The more people that register - the greater cost savings you can make! If you’re considering sharing the ride as a means of commuting, travelling or taking the kids to School, there are many benefits to be enjoyed.
TheCarPool - Great for Workers, Use Those Empty Transit Lanes!
TheCarPool is a great way to share the costs involved with the daily driving to and from work. Locate a pool in your area and either share the costs of a single car or rotate the driving between each other's vehicles. The choice is totally yours, just make the initial contact with people in your area and work it out together. If there are currently no Carpools available in your area, just simply start a new one and wait for the responses. Automatic notifications of new CarPools are sent to members in your area when the pools are created - so create a new CarPool, give it a funky name, and wait for the cost savings to arrive!
The SchoolPool - Great For Parents!
SchoolPool is a great way to share the costs and time involved with taking the kids to school. Simply register your SchoolPool and like minded parents in the same area can get in contact with yourself. Of course get the full details of these potential ‘poolers’ and arrange to meet them beforehand to minimise any concerns you may have with regards to others picking up and collecting your kids from school.
The Trip - Great For Backpackers!
The Trip feature is a great way to get around this vast country of ours and meet new people at the same time. Besides the obvious cost savings involved with sharing the fuel expenses in a ‘Trip’ there is also the option to share the driving, making the trip shorter as fewer stops are needed due to driver fatigue. It also is a way to meet like minded people and possibly new life long friends. Backpackers and Travellers will find this ‘Trip’ feature very useful…………
Arrive Feeling Relaxed
In 100 years, we’ve gone from horse and buggy to over 8 million cars on Australia's roads. Increased road rage and gridlock affect everyone. One of the greatest benefits of sharing the ride to work is taking the stress out of driving. Rather than beginning the day irritated from fighting traffic and searching endlessly for parking, you’ll arrive ready to take on the task at hand.
Save Money!
According to the Australian Automobile Association, the average commuter spends approximately $7,500 per year or $15 per day to operate their car. These figures are based on a mid-size car driven 18,000 km annually (a 30km daily round trip) and include operating (fuel, maintenance, etc) and ownership (financing, insurance, depreciation)…. Sport utility vehicle and mini-van owners can expect to spend over $9,000 annually. Ridesharing can dramatically reduce these costs and in some cases can eliminate the need for that costly second family vehicle.
Ensure a Healthy Environment for Future Generations
There is another, more tragic cost related to automobile use: degradation of our environment. Every day, millions of vehicles pump pollutants into our atmosphere. Some of these fall to earth, fouling streams and contaminating crops. Others rise into the stratosphere, damaging the ozone layer and causing global climate warming – the "greenhouse effect". Still more of these pollutants cling close to earth, inhaled with every breath we take. Air pollution is a proven cause in several lung ailments, from asthma to emphysema. Ridesharing reduces the impact of automobiles on our roadways and our environment very simply – by travelling in groups rather than alone, ridesharing decreases the number of vehicles on our roads.