Corporate Membership
The convenience of a fleet but without the costs!
Many
businesses, organizations, and governments require access to vehicles on a daily
basis. However, maintaining your own fleet can be costly, particularly
when vehicles are underutilized.
Many employees drive to work simply because they might need a vehicle during the day for an off-site meeting, errand, or emergency. They may prefer to take transit, walk, cycle, or carpool to work, however, without access to a vehicle these options have limitations.
This is where membership in a carsharing organization, such as Grand River CarShare and Hamilton CarShare, can save
your business, organization, or government, as well as your employees, time and money.
Why
should your business, ogranization or government join?
Whether
you need vehicles for as little as 30 minutes or as long as several
days, the Co-op's unique self-serve reservation and vehicle access system
can accomodate your staff's changing travel needs.
Grand River
CarShare and Hamilton CarShare offer...
- Flexibility:
Reservations can be made online or through a simple phone
call 24 hours a day.
- Affordability: Your business or organization pays only when your staff drive,
allowing you to reduce the number of under-utilized vehicles
in your fleet.
- Convenience:
Cars are centrally located and given the demand of your business
or organization could be located on-site.
- Cleaner
alternative: Carsharing has proven to reduce auto emissions
by over 50% per member. Carsharing is a great way to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Reduced
parking demand: Your staff can consider leaving their
own cars at home knowing that they have access to CarShare vehicles whenever
needed, thereby reducing your on-site parking demand.
- Time-savings
for staff: The Co-op maintains the vehicles, insures all your staff
drivers, and provides monthly invoices. As well the Co-op's self-serve
vehicle access system means that your staff never have to come
to our office for reserving or picking up a car.
Consider
this: After joining
PhillyCarShare
(a non-profit carsharing organization located in Philadelphia)
the City of Philadelphia was able to reduce its fleet by 330 cars
out of a goal of 450! PhillyCarShare
was able to accommodate the City's fleet reduction by adding only
three more cars to their own fleet, while providing the City with
access to all twenty of their CarShare vehicles.
How
to join? It's simple:
Your business or
organization can join Grand River CarShare and Hamilton CarShare as a Corporate
Member (please note that there is a non-profit rate available) .
Please read the
Membership Information Booklet which includes the Member Manual, By-laws, Privacy Policy, and Frequently Asked Questions.
Then, complete and submit the Corporate Membership Application (PDF file).
The Corporate Membership Application consists of two (2) Parts:
- Part A - to be completed by representative(s) of your business or organization; and,
- Part B - to be completed by your respective employee(s) so that they may become "Corporate Drivers" and as such utilize the CarShare vehicles. The representative(s) of your business or organization will also have to sign Part B to authorize employee(s) as Corporate Driver(s).
For your convenience Part B is available online. Part A will soon be available online as well.
Should
you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact staff.
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Please note: If you are unable to download any of the above PDF documents (you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them), drop by our office to pick up hard copies or ask to have them emailed or mailed to you.
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