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Rawalpindi to Islamabad

Share the ride. Split the cost.

CarsPool.pk matches you with people already driving your route. Fill the seats and see what a month actually costs you.

The driver approves every passenger, and every driver's CNIC and licence is read by a person before their account is approved.

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A month, driving alone

How many people in the car

Rawalpindi to Islamabad and back, 30 km a day, 22 days

A month, driving alone: Rs 21,600

What we check before we approve a driver

  • CNIC uploaded The number, and a photograph of the card.
  • Licence uploaded The driving licence, number and photograph.
  • Read by a person Our team, not an algorithm.

Not a taxi

Nobody is hiring a driver.

There is no fare, and there is no company taking a commission on the ride. Somebody is already driving that road, you are going with them, and the cost of the trip is split between whoever is in the car.

Yahan koi driver hire nahi hota — ek banda waise bhi is raste pe ja raha hai, aap us ke saath ja rahe hain, aur safar ka kharcha aapas me bant jata hai. Ride pe hamari koi commission nahi.

A shared car filling up along its route A road runs towards a city on the horizon. People wait along the kerb, and a car travels up the road picking them up, until all 4 seats are taken.

Rawalpindi to Islamabad, every working day

A month on this route costs you this much.

30 km a day, 22 working days, a 1300cc sedan at 11 km per litre. Change any of that in the calculator.

km driven
660
litres of fuel
60
at the pump
Rs 21,600

Cost per person, per month

  • Driving alone Rs 21,600
  • Split 2 ways Rs 10,800
  • Split 3 ways Rs 7,200
  • Split 4 ways Rs 5,400

Fuel only. Tolls, parking and wear are on top, and they split the same way.

In the app

From your route to your share, in four steps.

  1. Step 1

    Say where you're going

    Enter your route and the time you leave. Save it as home and work once, and you never type it again.

  2. Step 2

    See who is already driving it

    The app shows drivers already on your corridor at your time, how far away they are, and the seats they have free.

  3. Step 3

    Ask for the seat

    You request it. The driver approves or declines. Nobody joins a car without the driver saying yes.

  4. Step 4

    Split what the trip costs

    Everyone pays their share, in cash, in the car. Nobody is hired, no surge, no commission on the ride.

How the matching works

You are not ordering a car.

You are joining one that is already going. Get on partway, get off partway — the app only shows you drivers whose road actually passes both your ends.

Your pickup and your drop both have to fall within a short distance of the route the driver saved, and your drop has to be further along that route than your pickup. The app asks the database that question before it shows you anything, so a ride that does not fit both your ends never appears — and you can never be matched backwards.

  1. Driver starts Wherever they are coming from. You do not have to be there.
  2. You get in Anywhere their road passes, at the time they are leaving.
  3. You get out Further along the same road. Your stop is yours to pick.
  4. Driver's last stop Stated before you ask for a seat, so you know where the car ends up.

Side by side

You have three ways to make the same trip.

What changes between them is not only what you pay. It is who is driving the car, and who is taking a cut of the money.

Scroll the table sideways if all three do not fit.

CarsPool.pk compared with a ride-hailing app and with driving alone, on what you pay, who is driving, who takes a cut, surge, and how you pay. Compared on structure, not on price.
What is being compared Driving alone A ride-hailing app CarsPool.pk
What you pay The whole cost. A fare the company sets. A share of the cost, divided by the people in the car.
Who is driving You are. A driver hired by a company. Somebody who was already making that trip.
Who takes a cut Nobody. The platform, on every ride. Nobody. No commission on the ride.
Surge Does not apply. Yes. The fare moves with demand. None. There is no surge code in the app at all.
How you pay At the pump. Card or cash, through the app. Cash, in the car. No wallet, no card.

No rupee figures in this table, on purpose. There is no honest source for what a ride-hailing app charges on your route, and that fare moves with demand anyway, so this compares how the three are arranged rather than what they cost. The fuel arithmetic is further up the page. On intercity trips the driver sets a price per seat instead of splitting the cost.

Safety

Cheap is easy. Safe is the hard part.

So we would rather show you what the app actually enforces than tell you that it is safe.

  • The driver picks who gets in

    Every seat is a request the driver has to approve. The seat is only taken off the count once they say yes, and that rule is enforced in the database, not in the app.

  • CNIC and licence, read by a person

    A driver uploads their CNIC and driving licence before they can be approved, and somebody on our team reads them.

  • You pick where you get out

    Your stop is yours, anywhere along the route, and the driver's final stop is stated before you request. Both sides confirm the drop-off.

  • Cash, in the car

    There is no wallet, no card and no payment gateway anywhere in the app. Nothing to steal, and no card details to lose.

How we check every driver

In the app

What you get when the ride is a person, not a fare.

  • You join a car, you don't order one

    You are matched to people already driving your road. Your pickup and your drop both have to fall on the driver's route, and your drop has to be further along it than your pickup — so you can get on partway, but never travel backwards.

  • Your own stop

    Get off where you need to, anywhere along the route. The driver's final stop is stated before you ask for a seat.

  • No surge. Ever.

    There is no surge pricing anywhere in the app, because there is no surge code anywhere in the app. Nothing to cap and nothing to explain.

  • No commission on the ride

    Nothing is taken out of what you pay. It goes straight from you to the person driving.

  • Cash in the car

    No wallet to top up, no card to add, no payment gateway at all.

  • English and Urdu

    Both languages, right to left included.

Your impact

The app keeps your score

You do not have to keep count. The app does it from your first ride: how many you took, what stayed in your pocket, and the CO2 you did not put in the air by driving alone.

  • 44

    rides

  • Rs 16,200

    saved

  • 79 kg

    CO2 avoided

An example month on Rawalpindi to Islamabad: 660 km, a 1300cc sedan at 11 km/L, fuel at Rs 360/L, shared 4 ways. CO2 at 0.12 kg per km not driven alone.

Routes

One trip, one car, four people.

What a single one-way trip in a 1300cc sedan costs, on your own and split four ways.

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For drivers

Already making the drive?

You are going anyway. Fill the empty seats and split what the tank costs. Set your own route, your own times, and approve who rides with you.

How driving works

  • Your route, your times

    The corridor you already drive, at the hour you already leave.

  • You approve every passenger

    Each seat is a request. You say yes or no.

  • No commission on the ride

    The riders' share of the fuel is yours, in cash, in the car.

Islamabad and Rawalpindi first

Leave your number and you are on the route from day one.

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What are you joining for

Android 7.0 and up. Coming to Google Play and the App Store.

Rs 5,400 a month, split 4 ways

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