Car4Share... how could this work?

With increasing fuel costs, Car4Share... actively shring lifts to meets,, how could this work? ideas, suggestions..

People offering lifts would be able to select all the towns they can pick up from and then enter a list of all the meetings they attend on a regular basis. E.G. I can pick up from Pontypridd, Trefforest, and Cardiff and I regularly go to the Cardiff, Llantrisant, Pontypridd and Swansea meetings.

Those looking for lifts would then be able to enter the town they need picking up from to search for a list of lifts available

Sounds like you should create an app for it Carl :) 

This wouldn't work very well, like the idea for reducing carbon footprint of 20+ cars for a meeting but I don't think it will work as I'm guessing most business owners have places to go directly from a 4networking meeting.

Time for a hybrid car leasing company to jump on 4networking. They are getting better and better

I think there must be some mileage in it (no pun intended!) but I can see Stephen's point as well.

I would like to think that effective networking could lead to this anyway - if I found a fellow 4N'er lived near me or was on my route and needed a lift I'd be happy to offer.

I would not want to pick up strangers to attend meetings - would be ok if you knew these but could lead to trouble

Great idea! I think it could also have the effect of encouraging some 4Ners to go to meetings they might not otherwise go to. Grab a lift with the 4sighter or dare I say it the RL

It would have to be up to the individuals to contact each other and negotiate a lift so this should get around the whole stranger thing

Its a good idea, but there has been cases where I have nto been able to make a meeting at very short notice, and it would potentially drop others in it :(

Can I grab a lift in the 4N helicopter to take me to Gordano?

Is this not commonplace already everywhere else, in this region I think we do it pretty frequently already, especially as very few groups round here have great public transport. We just arrange it so we share the load.

Denise

Is this not commonplace already everywhere else, in this region I think we do it pretty frequently already, especially as very few groups round here have great public transport. We just arrange it so we share the load.

Denise

Is this not commonplace already everywhere else, in this region I think we do it pretty frequently already, especially as very few groups round here have great public transport. We just arrange it so we share the load.

Denise

I am not going to say it won't work, as it will in certain circumstances.

A 4N Car Pool section would be OK and people who can give others a lift can post on there and then people can PM them to arrange a lift etc...

I would offer others a lift but most don't want to be at the venue for 07:30 and more importantly, I drive down a lot of back lanes to get to my venues and I do not know of many farmers in the area that go to 4N.

I don't see a need in doing a full on development of anything on the site, a simple sub section for it first to give it a try could work.  Then again, there is only a small portion of group members that actively use the forums, so not sure if you are going to get to the right target groups?