| Save Money on Fuel with These Top Tips | February 27, 2013 | |
With the country’s economy in the state it’s currently in, everyone from little Jimmy to Great Aunt Doris is trying to save a few quid on a day to day basis, whether that means buying supermarket own brand corn flakes or cutting out the menthol cigarettes.
You don’t necessarily have to make such sacrifices though – in fact, there is a much simpler method of cutting down on your spending, one which doesn’t involve any sacrificing at all! It is easy and won’t negatively impact your life in any way. Three little words: Drive. More. Efficiently.
Drive Sensibly
Driving aggressively – going above the speed limit, accelerating rapidly, braking hard and frequently – can lower your fuel efficiency by as much as a third, depending on your speed. This means that, if you were to drive in a more sensible manner, you could reduce your fuel consumption. If you normally get, say, thirty miles to the gallon, by being less aggressive you could increase it up to 45 mpg!
Remove Any Excess Weight
If you’ve got any unnecessary items weighing down the boot, get them out of there! This is even more important if you’ve got heavy stuff in the back like a bunch of tools or a stack of lumber, so make sure you keep the load to a minimum.
The smaller your vehicle, the harder its fuel economy will be hit – for every 45 kg of junk in the boot, your car will drop about 2% in its efficiency. This might not seem like all that much, but it soon adds up as the miles go by!
Stick to the Speed Limit
As a rough rule of thumb, for every 5 mph you drive over 50 mph, it is about the equivalent to paying an extra five pence for every litre you consume. Think how outraged you would be if you saw the prices on the pumps jump by 5p tomorrow! Now think that you’re already doing this to yourself.
You’re currently getting much less fuel than you pay for – by sticking to the lower end of the speed spectrum you will get what you deserve, and be able to travel for much longer distances at a much lower cost.
Don’t Be so Idle!
If you find yourself idling excessively whilst waiting for your passenger to grab today’s papers, or as you’re waiting to pick someone up, you’re wasting petrol, and a lot of it. If you’re going to be parked up for more than about thirty seconds, turn off that engine!
It only costs a few seconds’ worth of petrol to start up your engine again, so it’s better than leaving it to sit in idle for ages, which could cost you a couple pence per minute. Obviously, don’t turn off your engine when you’re just going to wait a couple seconds, as this will be both wasteful and potentially damaging to the starter.
Post contributed by the Cheapflights flight comparison website.
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| New carpool for Newcastle | February 2, 2013 | |
We just added a new carpooling group for the city of Newcatsle, NSW. Thanks to Francisco for the suggestion :)
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| Server Problems solved | August 6, 2012 | |
Due to technical problems our website was offline for two days. Everything is fixed now. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
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| needaride in New Zealand | August 5, 2010 | |
Hello,
we are happy to announce, that we just launched the New Zealand version needaride.co.nz of our Australien baby. Feel free to use it, if you head off to this gorgeous island. You can use your Australian login credentials, no additional registering is required. And, don't forget to tell your travel mates.
Thanks to all who contributed and for taking the time to help us to improve.
Enjoy your time! Happy Travels,
The needaride Team
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| Esta Hammond's SAVE iT | December 31, 2009 | |
Esta Hammond's book has over 1000 tips, and also mentions many businesses, products and services that will also help people to save money. We are pleased to tell you that our fantastic business was one of those mentioned in her book!
Check out Esta's website to find more information and win a free copy of "SAVE iT".
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| Carpool Merge for Cairns | August 27, 2008 | |
We merged carpool Cairns and Atherton Tablelands to one carpool for the entire Cairns Region.
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| The Cairns Post: "Greener option better all round" | July 30, 2008 | |
Read the The Cairns Post article about our cooperation with CAST (Cairns Action for Sustainable Transport) here.
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| Article on Current TV | Dezember 21, 2007 | |
Read this Article about us and carpooling in Australia.
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| New carpools * Google Maps * Fuel Cost Calculator | June 27, 2008 | |
Hi all,
after a long time of chilling silence, here comes a new software update of your favourite website:
new carpools for Atherton Tablelands and Cairns (thanks a lot Andrea McNamara)
interactive Google Maps for the ride detail page
fuel cost calculator
spanish localization
layout enhancements - more space
All the best, your nar team.
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| Guestbook closed temporarily | Dezember 10, 2007 | |
Due to the heavy spam attacks of the last days, we have decided to disable the possibility of adding entries into our guestbook. We are sorry for that. We will add a security feature and reopen the guestbook asap.
Stay tuned, the nar team.
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| First carpools are online | June 30, 2006 | |
Good news for people in Byron Bay and Canberra.
needaride.com.au has now integrated a carpool system
into their website for people in Byron Bay and the
University of Canberra. If you want to set up a carpool
for your region, just tell us.
Now you can search for a car or
passengers that will go the same route as you thus
eliminating the typical scene in a traffic jam of cars
with only one person inside.
The biggest benefits include less air and noise
pollution, less money spent on petrol and a great way
of meeting new people.
As usual this new needaride.com.au feature will allow you to
find people or a car for your carpool project in an
easy and confidential way.
Try it out now!
Special Thanks to Ron from Canberra and Andrew from Byron Bay for
their important contribution. Hugs and kisses to lovely Boi in Bankog :)
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| Attention: Database Roolback | May 11, 2006 | |
We give advise to all users to check their postings (registration, lift offers/requests, guestbook entries etc.) made on May 11, 2006. Our database crashed, we had to restore the data with a backup. So we had a gap of approx four hours (18:00 - 22:00 QLD TIME). Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
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| Signs of Life and the Peats Ridge Festival | October 12, 2005 | |
After a long, long summer break we are back with a couple of news ...
1st, needaride.com.au is still doing well. The platform runs and runs, nobody complains, new users register day by day ... although we still have some nice new features in the drawer ;)
Furthermore we moved our Web Application to a new server. This caused actually a couple of problems and a three day offline time ... sorry for this. Together with our friends from Hosting Shop we fixed this finally. Cheers!
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Anyway, we are going to support the Peats Ridge Festival 2005. You will find this event in our list of cities, so you can pick it up to use it for your lift to/from the festival directly.
Just click on the icon left to get more information.
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| Problems with sending registration mails | Januar 21, 2005 | |
In the last couple of days the mail system of our provider didn't work properly. Some of the registration mails did not reach the user. We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused.
We have updated our system to fix the Problem.
If you have registered and you still have not received the userkey, please let us know. We will instantly activate your account. We will move our system to a more reliable server asap.
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| Overseas Review | October 29, 2004 | |
Here you can read a website review a german travel magazine wrote about our nice website ... provided that you can read german ;)
So we are getting famous in Europe as well. Excellent.
Thanks to Oliver from REISE & PREISE.
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| Website update | September 23, 2004 | |
After a long period without a word from your favourite
website, we come with some great news! We have added a
couple of new features to the website...
- you can now delete your user account of your own
- you can additionally specify the vehicle used (e.g.
plane, boat) in your offer or request,
so it is a lot easier to look for trips that can only
be done by boat for example
- rides in search result list are now also sorted by
the hour of departure
- permanent rides in search result list are marked
with a P
Tell us your thoughts or comments regarding new
website features.
Looking forward to hearing from you, the NAR team.
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| Interruption | August 18, 2004 | |
We have been offline for the last 5 days. Fortunately we are back online today. Big sorry to everybody who has missed a lift or a companion!
We had trouble with our domain registration. Now everything is in order and we do our best that such an interruption does not happen again.
The needaride.com.au team.
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| Toorista.com Selection | May 18, 2004 | |
Our website has been selected by
Toorista.com as one of the Best of the Web in its category.
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| BLITZ Magazine Website Review 6/2004 | April 15, 2004 | |
Here you can read something about the guys behind needaride.com.au.
Thanks to Marina from the BLITZ Magazine.
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| Problems with adserver | January 13, 2004 | |
In the last couple of weeks our adserver hasn't distibuted all of the weekly statistic mails to our customers and partners. We are very sorry for any inconvenienced caused! The problem is solved now. All the advertising statistics get out in time again from today onwards.
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| Announcement: New partner website ozoverland.com | January 11, 2004 | |
Happy to announce another new partnership with ozoverland.com! ozoverland.com is an online information resource for the independent traveller.
For further information about our affiliate program please mail to: partner@needaride.com.au.
No costs, very easy to integrate and added value to your website! We support PHP, ASP or HTML.
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| Announcement: Carpooling for HnH Travellers | September 04, 2003 | |
We are really happy to announce the partnership with HnH Travellers Australia!
HnH Travellers Australia is one of the most comprehensive Australian websites for budget B&B accommodation and all other travel related information and services. Check it out!
For further information about our affiliate program please mail to: partner@needaride.com.au.
No costs, very easy to integrate and added value to your website! We support PHP, ASP or HTML.
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| Announcement: New partner GetJealous.com | July 3, 2003 | |
We are happy to announce a new partnership with GetJealous.com - the website where you can share your travel diary and photos. GetJealous.com gives anyone coming through us a free personal site with diary, gallery & message board.
For further information about our affiliate program please mail to: partner@needaride.com.au.
No costs, very easy to integrate and added value to your website! We support PHP, ASP or HTML.
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| Database crashed | May 5, 2003 | |
Two days ago parts of our database crashed. Unfortunately we were not able to restore the data immediately.
We are very sorry for the erroneous website of the last days. Now the problems are solved. No data has got lost. Thanks to all who reported bugs!
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| Website Update - two new features | May 3, 2003 | |
Since we at needaride try to make our website every time more user-friendly we have concocted a great new idea for those who have to go that same route every day/week.
Now commuters can enter permanent rides, which basically means that they can enter their offer/request once and it will be valid for months and months.
Basically the only thing you have to do when you enter your offer/request is click the box permanent rides. Then you will be asked on what day you usually make your daily/weekly trip. The rest of the information is the usual: where you're leaving from, where you're going to and what time you plan on leaving.
Our second new feature benefits all those who request rides.
Now they can also enter stopovers making it more likely to find a ride,
or at least for a part of your trip.
For example if you enter a request for a ride from Townsville to Melbourne and enter as stopovers Brisbane and Sydney, you will receive offers for rides from for example Brisbane to Melbourne and Townsville to Sydney as well as from
Townsville to Melbourne.
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| Advertise for free | February 15, 2003 | |
So far more than 30 hostels have decided to take advantage of
our free advertising offer.
We currently offer these advertising services for free for a period of three months.
If you are interested in
this special offer or have any questions do not
hesitate
to contact us: ads@needaride.com.au.
If you require some nice promotion material about us just download it here.
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| Successful promotion campaign | February 10, 2003 | |
We at needaride.com.au are very happy that our
information campaign about our existence is a success.
User numbers have grown steadily in the last few weeks
and we expect them to grow even more rapidly. This
means that our service can only get better.
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| Mail server problems fixed | February 7, 2003 | |
In the last couple of days our mail system didn't work properly. Some of the registration mails did not reach the user in time. We are very sorry for any inconvenienced caused.
Thanks for the urgent help to Brett and Jon from Hosting Shop.
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| Announcement: First partner DoAustralia.com | January 30, 2003 | |
The needaride.com.au team is proud to announce our just established partnership with DoAustralia.com - the online place with all the information you'd ever want on Australia.
For further information about our affiliate program please mail to: partner@needaride.com.au.
No costs, very easy to integrate and added value to your site! We support PHP, ASP or HTML.
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