Carpool Tips
Make your carpooling experience the best it can be by following these helpful hints:
- Contact the people on your list; don't be shy, they have also expressed interest in carpooling.
- Determine who will drive, and when and how many days a week you will carpool.
- Discuss financial arrangements. If you rotate driving responsibilities, no money should change hands, but if one person does the bulk of the driving, you should decide on a per-day or per-mile contribution to cover gas and parking.
- Decide where, when and in what order each rider will be picked up and dropped off. Use a meeting place, such as a park-n-Ride, if door-to-door arrangements are not practical.
- Establish "Rules of the Road" to determine if smoking, eating, drinking, playing the radio and use of perfume/cologne are acceptable in your carpool.
- Figure out an emergency plan in case of bad weather, or schedule change. Agree on a fair waiting time for riders in case the driver is stuck in traffic or otherwise delayed.
- Give it a trial run. Once you've done it for a couple of weeks, you'll find out how much you like it!
