commuters
make it easy on yourself:
- convenience: It’s all about you! You and your vanpool group choose your own routes, your own schedules, your on pick up and drop off locations. Choose a park & ride lot or a location near your worksite or both. You design the weekly plan.
- comfort: Relax, socialize or catch up on work during your commute. Yes! Our vanpools have comfortable seating, zoned heating and air conditioning, customized lighting, tinted windows, and more.
- vanpooling boarding zones: Get special treatment when you travel to boston. Use vanpool boarding zones created by the boston transportation department just for vanpoolers.
- reduce your month expenses: Vanpoolers share vehicle and gas costs and tolls and parking.
- insurance discount: Many vanpool passengers save an extra 10% discount on their personal automobile insurance with proof of a vanpool certification. You might be eligible too.
- free and discounted parking: many boston parking lots and garages have exclusive spots for vanpoolers and offer reduced rates.
- free registration and license plates. The state offers these free for qualified vanpools.
vanpool
#1 check current routes to see if a vanpool is going your way.
Or
#2 take the initiative. Start your own vanpool.
To get started, just call us at 888-4COMMUTE.
We will:
- help you organize a vanpool group
- help you set-up your vanpool zone permit
- help you map your locations
- help you pick the right vehicle and pricing for your group
- help you pick a meeting place for morning and afternoon pick-ups
- assist with finding back-up drivers
AAA says “each time you drive 50 miles to work, you spend approx $8,000 a year on gas, maintenance, taxes, depreciation and finance costs.” The same commute in a 14-passenger vanpool can cost as little as $1,700 annually. Calculate your monthly costs.
