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How many of you share a car with another driver?

Considering doing this with my uncle who is a PH driver.

How do you sort fuel, split shifts up etc?

The easy way to do the fuel is for you both to leave the vehicle with a full tank at the end of your shift.

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As its his car he has the biggest say as to what hours he works.
Sharing a car is a good idea in theory but it will increase the wear and tear which will lead to more downtime while its serviced.

I have shared my car with another driver and also done it the other way and shared someone elses car.

The way it works here is fuel the car to the brim at the end of each shift and then split the remainder 50/50. Tips are drivers.

Problems were that sometimes the car wasnt fueled properly, left dirty, potentially ragged about, however as you are doing it with family at least you both have enough respect for each other to do things properly.

Another way you could do it is lease the car for a weekly fee or on a per shift basis. In my case, id had enough of fri and sat nights so got a driver in to do them. Pain in the arse though being rung at 4am if theres a puncture or mechanical fault.

Easy peasy! Take a mileage reading at the end of/beginning of the shift - fill up at the end of the shift. Leave the receipt in the car for the next driver to see that all has been done properly - pick up the/your receipt next time around.

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it's not that easy.... been there seen that... I was a "company" driver for about 8 mnths when I first started together with the other driver who was working only Thu - Sun... not big deal... problems started about cleaning (I'm night person), "my" co-driver never left car cleaned after his shift ( he was always hurrying back to his wife), ok. I can do it but once on a Christmas time when wheater was crap and dirt all over I had to wash car properly after my allnight shift Christmas Eve, went to sleep to find car ready to wash again after his shift on Christmas Day... so it seemed, I've wash car after my shift and before my shift... spoke to him few days later, he said he doesn't know how to wash a car!!! normally car was parked on my driveway and water and hose provided outside 24/7... another issue, fuel, always problems cos "I didn't fill up and he has topped up after me for £3" and this type simmilar stories... personally, I will never share my own car with anybody else, my other car yes even between 4 drivers...

no-one gets my baby....i dont even like passengers in it

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