Having a car, is always a good idea, but as you navigate your way through a heavy traffic jam because of rush hour can sometimes get into your nerves. Not when you are with your friends or new found friends because you decide to ride share and form a carpool.



Joining a carpool and ride share has many advantages; first, you can widen your contacts, if you are working in a bank, you can invite other people from other companies to join in, then you can exchange ideas on how you can invest your money. An executive decided to offer his car for some of his officemates to ride share with him after office hours, it gave him such good rapport to his officemates, and he always get things done on time. I am sure his boss would be so happy to see his networking ability.

Second, your networking possibilities have endless, since you are building friendly relationships with your colleagues because of carpool, they can refer friends and clients to your business during your ride share. Especially when you are on sales, the grapevine of whose who can buy your products is known during car pool, in a tug of war of financial district, when competition can be very stiff, spotting a blue ocean for your products can be very challenging at times, you always have to be in the look out.

Carpool and ride share with your friends is a healthy avenue of connecting links and finding options of whom you can connect. One wise guy, decided to have a dandy box in his car, so his friends can write the names of their new connections, on which he can approach the next day. He never fails to make a sale.

Third, you can share on the gas, and end up saving up dollars, a group of friends decided to take turns in ride share carpool, they decided to place a piggy bag, in one of their friend’s car. They had a wonderful time going back home every office hours, and spend a get – together time while traveling during rush hour, instead of a power filled tense hour of driving, they exchange ideas on how they can advance in their professional life, or anything under the moon, and they ended up becoming great friends.

Fourth in cases of emergency, there are people with you, to help you out. Sometimes after a grueling day at the office, you feel very tired, but having a ride share with friends will help you loosen up a bit, especially the thoughtful ones, who brings in chocolate and cool drinks while waiting for the others for the carpool to gather in the parking area. It can happen because of the traffic, you can fall asleep, while waiting for the cars to move along, to have friends around, they can keep you from falling asleep because they tell you lots of fun stories, and in case you have a flat tire, there is always somebody to help you out.

Ride share with your friends and colleagues have lots of benefits, besides saving on gas, you also get good business through carpool.