Anyone Want to Carpool?

[Josh Sweet]

I will be driving from Dallas, Texas to Vancouver. I am driving a large SUV that has 7 seats. If anyone wants to join me or want me to take their PC to the event on the way there, message me. Also, This can be a thread for other people wanting to carpool.

[cmndr]

As an FYI, this CAN make sense if you're packing a vehicle with tons of people and you really care about the experience of the journey itself. 

 

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As a solo person though... assuming the price of a flight is $600...
it's ~2300 miles. At 20Mpg you're at 115 gallons of fuel. At $3.50/gallon it's $402.5. This doesn't count wear/tear. 

If you're driving at 70Mph on average you'd be on the road 32 hours. At 12 hours/day this is 3 days of driving. If you have 2 hotel stays at $70 each you're at $140.


You'd essentially be saving $25/day by putting in a 12 hour day, assuming 0 wear and tear on the vehicle cancels out the cost of a ride to/from DFW/Love Field and YVR. 
If you have to take time off work, at $10/hour (after tax) you end up behind though. 

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For what it's worth my SO and I drove 1600 miles passing through DFW during COVID to see some older relatives. Gas was half the price and... the next time we went for a visit we flew to DFW... just eugh... 

STRONGLY consider flying, getting to YVR a day early, resting and enjoying yourself and it'll be a relatively close total cost unless you can cram tons of people in the SUV.

[Warboy]

If I wasn't bringing my family and rigs, I would be interested lol.

[rcmaehl]

Tried to setup a mega thread for this one LTX, but didn't get much traction.