Pickup Pal
PickupPal is an North American initiative with a global presence that creates a community forum to link up similar business and leisure journeys across the US and worldwide. Vans Warped Tour promotes the use of PickupPal on their website, providing links to the website and promoting the use of lift sharing with other people to reduce carbon emissions and save some money doing it. PickupPal has also worked with the likes of Dave Matthews Band, The Dead tour, Phish, John Mayer, AEG Live Events (including Coachella) as well as previously working with UK Festivals such as Reading, Leeds and Latitude, and non-profits such as Alzheimers Society, AIDSWalk, WWF and Clean Air Foundation.
PickupPal is one of the first organisations in the US to pioneer the scheme, and is definitely the largest, with 133,000 registered active users, and growing. Lift sharing to large tours and events such as Vans Warped Tour, which consists of approximately 50 tour dates nationwide, is growing more popular as a cheaper alternative to driving.
