The service provided of matching drivers with passengers is free. The driver may, however, charge a fee for giving you a ride to your destination. This fee between driver and passenger may be negotiable along with other terms such as sharing the cost of gas. It depends on what the parties decide on. Usually, the driver only charges a fee.

Use of privatecartravel.com is purely voluntary, meaning that drivers do not have any particular certification to give others a ride and any acceptance of a ride given by a driver is voluntary. It is the rider's responsibility to perform due diligence in evaluating a driver and deciding to accept or reject the offer of a ride from a driver. Think of this service like this: Remember in the olden days (maybe they still exist?), seeing a piece of paper on a bulletin board that offers a ride to some particular place the driver is planning on making a trip to? And the piece of paper usually had little cut-outs at the bottom of the page with the driver's phone number? Well, that is what privatecartravel.com really is except that instead of using a bulletin board with a piece of paper, the Internet is used with the privatecartravel.com website.

Lots of reasons. Likely the most compelling is that you can travel inexpensively if you're a passenger or earn money if you're a driver. If you're a passenger, perhaps flying or taking a bus is too expensive or too much of a fuss dealing with all the other passengers on board. Or maybe you're afraid to fly. PrivateCarTravel.com gives you a new travel option, one that's economical. If you absolutely need to be somewhere on a particular day and don't have the means to drive yourself, with PrivateCarTravel.com, it couldn't be easier. You'll save or earn money and maybe even make a friend or two.

No, although there are some things they have in common. They all exist to enable a person to get from Point A to Point B. However, Uber and Lyft are primarily utilized to get around within a local metropolitan area whereas PrivateCarTravel.com is envisioned to help folks get from one end of the country to the other. That is, when you need to travel long distances, PrivateCarTravel.com is likely your best option. Also, lead times from when you solicit a ride to when that ride occurs can be days to weeks whereas with Uber and Lyft, you're generally talking about minutes to hours.

PrivateCarTravel.com is primarily used to help folks travel long distances such as from one city to another, one state to another, or even from one country to another.

Because PrivateCarTravel.com only recently started, it will probably be difficult at first to identify people who need a ride from one place to another. Once word of PrivateCarTravel.com spreads and it becomes popular, the ease of finding folks who need a ride should become evident. If you have a particular route in mind that you'd like to take in transporting others, go ahead and advertise that route as a trip you plan to make and wait for others to respond. Or you can periodically perform a search for others who will need to travel along that route. Finally, spread the word about PrivateCarTravel.com to your friends and family about how it can come in handy but prefer not to fly or take a bus.

It can vary. Because PrivateCarTravel.com is new, it may at first be difficult to find a driver. Once word of PrivateCarTravel.com spreads, though, and it becomes popular, the ease of finding someone who is willing to give you a ride should be evident. Go ahead and advertise the ride you need and wait for a driver to contact you or periodically perform searches of trips that have been advertised by others.