Europe Loves Carpooling, Why Don’t We?

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4. That's why I never did it, errands, something most women share

However, the reason most American men don't is because they can never tell when the work day is going to end. Office types in other countries have regular hours and can turn up within a predictable time frame to carpool home. Here, people have to stay late at the office on a moment's notice and are generally worked to death because corporations are too miserly to hire enough help. Health care workers face the same thing.

I always tried to keep my work and home close enough together that I wasn't wasting time and gasoline sitting in traffic. The longest commute I faced in this town was 7 miles and I was happy to cut that down to 3.

Americans don't carpool because of the different nature of their jobs in this country.