As a frequent road tripper, I am pretty sure I enjoy driving across country more than your average traveller. No other form of travel puts you in control as much as a road trip, with the ability to cover lots of ground or take it slow by stopping, changing plans and embracing surprises.
TN / NC Border in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
With ample free time on my hands, I decided to do something last year that I had heard of for some time – be a driver of cars for Canadian snowbirds. The company I hooked up with is Hit the Road, and while the actual road tripping parts were great, a few bumps in the road (pardon the pun!), in particular the actions/inactions and disorganization of Hit the Road left me with a sour taste in my mouth.
What is Hit the Road?
First, some background on what car delivery is all about, to help you decide if it’s something you’d be interested in. These services exist because retired and wealthy Canadians head down to Florida, Texas and Arizona each winter – and they don’t want to drive.
So, while they fly back and forth to their sunny destinations, somebody has to drive their car. One such company that arranges car delivery for Canadians is called Canada Driveaway, or Hit the Road. They also provide this service for people who may be moving across Canada, say from Toronto to Vancouver.
To car owners they advertise providing a safe, quick and reliable service for a fee. Then hittheroad.ca / canadadriveaway.com locates a willing driver to spend a few days on what they liken to a ‘free road trip’, providing compensation to cover gas and possibly some expenses.
Sounds pretty sweet doesn’t it? It could be, but for a fair review, let’s see how things stack up when it comes to using hittheroad.ca vs. a rental vehicle.
Benefits of using hittheroad.ca instead of renting a car
- you get a free car to drive for a specified number of days
- you get to personally meet the person / people who own the vehicle
- there is the potential that you may drive a vehicle that is nicer than anything you would rent
- compensation paid to you upon successful delivery is made in cash
- overall, it should save you money
Risks of using hittheroad.ca instead of renting a car
- the pickup and drop off locations will not be as convenient as the nearest rental car company
- you are limited to the provided insurance coverage, there is no all-inclusive ’loss damage waiver’ or other coverage option
- a deposit of $500 is required before you can drive any vehicles for Hit the Road
- you do not get paid anything until you have delivered the vehicle
- your support system is a small organization that may not always be reachable
- roadside assistance is not provided if the car breaks down
- you are given a limited number of days
- you are given limited kilometres / miles, which may restrict the route you wish to drive
- you are limited to the dates and destinations offered by hittheroad.ca
- confirmations tend to be done last-minute, within a couple of weeks of departure, meaning the cost of your one-way airfare (if needed) may be high
- you have no control over the quality of the vehicle being driven, it may be an old, beat-up car
- there is no eating or smoking allowed in the vehicles and you can not bring pets
- you are told not to drive at night
- there is limited space in the vehicle as the owner will have their personal items in the trunk and possibly the back seats as well
Benefit of using Hit the Road? You may drive something you’d never rent like this Jaguar
There you have it, what it really means to deliver a car using a service like Hit the Road. If you’re just in it for a drive to get from A to B as quickly and directly as possible, while taking the risk that nothing will go wrong, then it can be a great option. If you are used to having flexibility on your road trips, want to book things ahead of time, enjoy having no-worry insurance coverage or need lots of vehicle space then you may want to reconsider.
How much do you get paid for car delivery?
This is the most common question people have asked me. From the two experiences I had driving for hittheroad.ca it seems to be around $100 per day. You can negotiate more depending on the route and car requirements, or if you’re backpacking across country already, you might only be paid enough for gas money.
With that information you should be able to make an educated decision yourself whether driving a car for hittheroad.ca is something you may be interested in.
Warning: I suggest stopping here and spending your time reading something else, unless you prefer controversy.
Catching a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium during a Road Trip
Disorganized Business Practices
At the start of this review of Canada Driveaway / Hit the Road I mentioned they seemed surprisingly disorganized. So let’s have a little recap of the issues I encountered from the time I agreed to work with them, up to the time I dropped off the last car.
Disorganized Issue 1: Wrong Information. Where is the car?
The first car I picked up for hittheroad.ca in April 2011 was located in the Fort Lauderdale area. Before agreeing on the assignment, I had numerous emails and phone calls with the owner of hittheroad.ca, Mr. David Smaller. Our first chats said he had a car in Miami. After more questions it became either Miami or Fort Lauderdale or Hallandale.
The dilemma this created was – do I fly into Miami or Fort Lauderdale to get the car? Prices for flights varied greatly. I decided to fly into Miami, it was cheaper.
Pick up day arrives, so I head out early to the address listed on the official ’vehicle delivery agreement’ provided by Canada DriveAway. Should be easy. After an hour of searching, the car owner and I realize the wrong city was listed on the agreement. Turns out the car was 15 miles away, in Hollywood, a city never even mentioned once by hittheroad.ca.
Alright, no big deal. Everyone makes mistakes…there is a fun road trip ahead. I mentioned this issue to hittheroad.ca when I picked up the car but didn’t receive any apology or acknowledgement of error.
Disorganized Issue 2: Last-Minute Planning without Enough Information
Before signing up to deliver a car, you need to go through a process of providing a drivers abstract and references. Once accepted, you can begin talking about delivering a car. It’s generally a quick process, if there is a car available to go somewhere you are interested in, hittheroad.ca will be happy to sign you up asap.
However, it becomes difficult to make those arrangements as you will not be told any specifics until after confirming your agreement. Building on Issue #1 above, the process for confirming my Florida delivery went something like this:
Hit the Road: I have a car to pickup any time these three days.
Me: (Reply next day) – Ok, I can do that and book a flight down to Miami.
Hit the Road: (Next day) – Have a car the next week now, in a different city.
Me: Alright. Done. Deposit sent. (I had already booked a flight for the week before)
Hit the Road: *Silence for a week*
Me: Umm, are we confirmed?
Hit the Road: Silence for a few more days.
Hit the Road: (Three days before pickup) – Oops, my bad. Sending delivery details today. (They didn’t.)
A ‘Bear’ in the Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
I had actually started to expect a message saying “sorry, I don’t have a car for you.” and began planning my own way back home, until I received documents the day before pickup.
This is an example of how hittheroad.ca could improve their business. By locking in a date with their car owners further ahead of time, they’ll allow themselves more time to find a driver, who in turn will have more time to make plans and find the best travel deals en-route to picking up the car. Less stress and less hassle for everyone.
Disorganized Issue 3: Changing details after Accepting a Delivery
If you think the last-minute stress of agreeing on a car delivery is enough, it potentially doesn’t end once you’ve accepted a delivery.
On my second car delivery for hittheroad.ca I had a number of phone calls and emails with David Smaller. As I was now a successful driver, having delivered my first car, we agreed on a delivery of a new Jaguar from Phoenix to Toronto.
After being a tourist for a couple of days in Arizona, I printed out the delivery agreement papers that had come in by email the day before pickup.
However, three things had changed since confirming details with hittheroad.ca by email earlier in the week. First – it was a different car, but still a Jaguar. Second – I was given an extra day of driving to deliver the car. Cool, but that meant last-minute accommodation changes. Third – the trip expense reimbursement fee had been increased by $200, presumably to cover the expenses of the additional day, yay!
Disorganized Issue 4: Security Deposits and References
Hit the Road requires a $500 security deposit before you drive any cars. They also need references, both of which are reasonable, except they forgot that I sent them my references and later seemed to have no record keeping of when I paid my deposit.
They advised that the deposit is returned upon a successful delivery and the delivery agreements stated that the $500 deposit was to reimburse the vehicle owner any costs associated with insurance if the vehicle were damaged. Ok, all good, that seemed legit.
On more than one occasion when checking the hittheroad.ca PayPal link I got the notice that the account was frozen. Fun! They didn’t have any alternative to PayPal at the time, which seemed a bit Mickey Mouse, but thankfully I can say this is one issue they’ve since addressed.
Disorganized Issue 5: No Support if Something Goes Wrong
Chances are nothing will go wrong when you deliver a car and, for the most part, Hit the Road was fairly responsive to any questions posed to them from the time of signup to the time of picking up a car. Even while driving a car and providing a progress check-in Mr. Smaller would normally reply within a few hours.
Guess what? Something went wrong on my second delivery.
Uh oh, Someone scratched my Bumper
After parking the car in a secure parking lot, I returned to see the left corner of the rear bumper sticking out. Looking closer, there were very, very faint scrapes and it seemed that someone had bumped the corner of the bumper in my absence. There was next to no damage, save for a hairline crack in the corner and some surface scratches – the bumper simply ‘popped’ back into place with a gentle push.
Still, I reported the incident that day. After no response, I contacted Hit the Road again by email and asked if they wanted to advise the car owners and forward the photos. No response.
The next day I take photos of the slight scrapes and sent to Hit the Road, asking what they want me to do.
Again, no reply.
Finally, two days after the incident, I get a response to the tune of ‘talk to the owners tomorrow when you drop off the car.’ I was shocked that Hit the Road didn’t even want to advise the car owner in advance of the minor issue, to avoid a surprise.
Upon delivery, the owner was surprised, but also understood it was something out of my control. They paid the full delivery expense agreed that the car had been dropped off in good condition.
Considering this was a ‘top client’ I would have expected Hit the Road to have advised their client ahead of time, but that’s just my opinion on proper customer service.
Unprofessional and Unaccountable Management
Now on to the last two issues. A month after my second car delivery, I began the process to have hiththeroad.ca return my security deposit or advise me that it was used for repairs to the Jaguar. Little did I know that this would turn into a massive, drawn out ordeal.
The following issues stem from more than 100 emails exchanged between myself and David Smaller, the owner of hittheroad.ca and canadadriveaway.com
Scenery of the Painted Desert, Arizona
Unprofessional Issue 1: The hittheroad.ca Scam of Not Returning Deposits
Car delivery number two was completed on May 12th. As part of the process, hittheroad.ca requires each delivery agreement to be signed upon pickup and dropoff. Three copies must be signed, with one being mailed back to their headquarters in Toronto.
So I waited until June 13th to send Hit the Road an email and inquire about the status of my deposit. The response was not what I expected. I got a response, but had to remind them of the date I paid my deposit and under what name, email I used. Not the most attentive over there at hittheroad.ca
Fast forward to August 11th. Two months later and not a single word from Hit the Road. So I send a follow up asking about the status. The response I get a few days later is ‘let’s meet for coffee’. Sure, I agreed let’s meet that week, just say when.
No response.
I follow up again the next week, asking if the refund is on the way or if my deposit was used for repairs, only to get a delayed response advising that Hit the Road hasn’t heard from the car owner yet (3 months after I dropped it off).
So, I chase Mr. Smaller again the next week. Now he advises they repaired the car on their own and has asked them if they want to put my deposit money towards the cost.
Silence again, until I email Hit the Road in September, finally expressing some frustration in this lengthy process, suggesting they return the deposit or send proof it was used for repairs.
Now things get interesting. Mr. Smaller replies saying he wants to offer them a $100 goodwill gesture. He proposes to meet again and suggests that the $100 be taken from my deposit. I respond the next day, make him a counter proposal and agree to meet, just tell me when and where.
Silence for two weeks.
I chase him again, saying I’m free to meet.
Silence again, until October 4th, Hit the Road sends a newsletter to their mailing list. I respond saying we’re overdue for our meeting about the deposit.
Guess what? Silence from Hit the Road.
Finally, on November 28th (5.5 months after I dropped off the car) I send hittheroad.ca a lengthy email outlining three options. Get the deposit sent over asap, show me proof it’s been used for repairs or ignore the issue and I’ll be happy to report these ongoing issues.
The next day he advises he drove their car recently and gave them $100 off. Did I want to spot him that money? Umm, no.
I advise him that he owes me $400 still, as we agreed by email that I previously received $100 of my deposit from my first car delivery. He claims that the extra $200 I received for delivery two was from my deposit and not from the extended day for that delivery (so I was given no extra pay for an extra day of expenses?). There is no record of that and the agreement clearly states the entire payment is for expenses, not deposit.
He wants to pay me $200, I say $400. He offers a middle-way solution. As it is November I agree to accept $300 just to get it over with.
On December 6th I receive an email payment notice for $100.
I ignore the notice, thinking it must be a mistake and he’ll send a corrected amount shortly. The reply I get is ‘what did we agree on?’.
So, with that we progress on to the last issue.
Benefit of driving a Rental Car? You can drive at night and enjoy unlimited Sunsets
Unprofessional Issue 2: Aggressive and Innapropriate Attitude
When first wanting to drive for Hit the Road, there were a number of aggressive comments said that made me wonder how legit Hit the Road was. Nothing crazy, just your usual pushy sales lines like ‘if you confirm today, I can pay you extra’.
But, let’s get back to the escalating deposit money issue.
The communication continued on from December 13th to 15th and deteriorated quite rapidly as I point out his personal contradictions and inability to meet from our previous agreements. Accusations get thrown back and forth.
He claims my reasoning is flawed and lacks merit. Yet, his calculations include $100 of ‘withheld’ deposit, for no valid reason, along with saying that $200 is to be taken from the second delivery, yet there is no record of this being agreed upon or mentioned and contradicts what our signed agreement says.
Mr. Smaller ends his communications with a ‘lets agree to disagree’ attitude, saying he can’t offer me any more of my money back.
My last response is that I consider the issue unresolved and that – agreeing to disagree – is not a solution.
As it stands, I have received $200 of my deposit and Hit the Road has retained $300.
Other Reviews of hittheroad.ca
The last part of this post may seem one-sided, so please get in touch with Hit the Road and check them out yourself, or tell me about your experiences. I do know of other people who have driven for them – once – without incident, including other travel writers and bloggers.
It isn’t the type of company that has tons of online reviews either, but I did manage to find the two websites below. I share them only because they echo my concerns about deposit returns and an aggressive attitude from hittheroad.ca
Planes, brains and no automobiles from David Cheesman – who experienced the aggressiveness of Hit the Road, but managed to avoid being a driver.
Yelp reviews of HitTheRoad – one negative review, which echoes my deposit issues, quickly followed by a number of perfect reviews (Tripadvisor syndrome, perhaps?)
Final Comments
It took me a long time to decide if I should write this review as I took pride in delivering my Hit the Road cars on-time in accordance with their delivery agreement guidelines. I hope that the information posted here will help others decide if car delivery is a sensible option during their travels. I’m sure I will hear from Mr. Smaller shortly after this review and will be happy to post any response or comments he wishes to share.
If you’re considering Hit the Road, my suggestion is to just pay for a worry-free rental car. Or, consider these alternatives to hittheroad.ca (I can’t personally vouch for any of these services):
torontodriveaway.com
automoves.ca
carstoflorida.com
snowbirdcarservice.com
professionaldrivers.com
proway1.com
Did you get the money? Were wanting to go to Vancouver from Ottawa but its too expensive for a rental.
Hey Amanda!
No they still owe me money…I don’t expect to get anything more back either, considering the way they dealt with things. Just remember sometimes it is better to pay more for a rental and have peace of mind during your travels.
Thanks so much much for putting this information out there. I thought your account was extremely fair and balanced considering the difficulties you had. Just in the way of full disclosure, I’m the one who posted the negative review about HitTheRoad at Yelp. I’d probably be a lot less generous toward HitTheRoad, but that’s just due to my own experience with them (I’m still waiting to get my $500 deposit back after a year).
One thing I though to add is that, in appealing to readers that it’s not a scam, HitTheRoad makes reference to its membership in the Better Business Bureau. Here’s the thing: if you drive for HitTheRoad, you don’t have any recourse to the BBB or any other consumer association. The reason is that, as a driver, you’re not considered a consumer/customer per se. So when you get ripped off (like me) and complain to the BBB, you’re told that your complaint is “beyond the purview” of the BBB. For that reason, HitTheRoad (or rather the registered company, CanadaDriveAway) has a great rating with the BBB – that rating only reflecting commercial transactions between CanadaDriveAway and vehicle owners. Incidentally, HitTheRoad.ca is not registered as a company in Ontario (unlike CanadaDriveAway).
Of course since drivers aren’t employees either, there’s no recourse to labour relations agencies either. Worse still, the only contract you sign as a driver is between you and the vehicle owner (and not HitTheRoad.ca). So at the end of the day, you’ve got no paper that says HitTheRoad.ca has taken your deposit much less when they’re obligated to return it. You’re high and dry, in other words – and I’d guess that that’s no accident, either.
If any of you reading this choose to drive for HitTheRoad, I wish you the best of luck but at the same time I suggest getting a separate contract between you & HitTheRoad’s owner that says exactly when and under what circumstances you get your money back. Failing that, I’d say go into it assuming you won’t get your money back.
Thanks again, Red, for putting this online. I’m sure there are more people like me out there, and this site will hopefully enable them to tell their stories.
All the best & happy trails,
Thomas
Hey Thomas, thanks for the lengthy comment, your point about the BBB is an interesting one, as I’m sure it gives people a false sense of security about Hit the Road. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thomas, I went to http://www.yelp.ca/biz/hittheroad-toronto but only see one review: a 4-star review. Where’s your review. Has Yelp removed it?
Wow–that’s terrible. I had always been hoping to try them out.. but I certainly won’t be doing that now. I hope you win some money now to make up for this :p
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Thanks Seattle…winning money is on my to-do list! I hope that HTR gets their act together, as it is such a tempting service to use. Sadly, I doubt that will happen as it’s pretty much a one-man show over there.
Hi Red,
This is mental! Since moving to North America I’ve often thought about doing something like this because it seemed like such a great deal, and have never heard of anyone doing this in Europe. After reading this I have second thoughts, at least about this company/way of doing it anyway!
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Hey Karin!
If you guys are flexible be sure to monitor the car rental companies. During off-seasons they have great deals too, like ‘drive a car out of Florida for $1′. I’m a fan of using the flyertalk.com website for checking for good rental deals and coupons too.
If only all customers could present their complaints/feedback like you! Well done Red. I appreciate you weighing the pro’s and con’s and speaking from experience. I’ll be following this story closely. As someone who deals with CS issues through Social Media for work on a daily basis, I do hope that HTR will provide a public response to this one and rectify your situation.
True customer service shines through in how a company deals with a situation like this. The floor is yours Mr. Smaller.
I’m rooting for you to use this feedback and make your company bigger and better.
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Thanks Alicia, I really wish things had gone smoother and I could have had a positive experience, but that just wasn’t the case. The door is wide open for Hit the Road to respond and I’ll update this post if they do.
I’ve been guiding and driving travellers around parts of Canada and we often see Hit the Road posters in hostels. Sometimes people me if I know about them. “Indeed I do…let me tell you a story…” I’ve ‘saved’ at least one tourist from using them so far.
Thanks for taking the time to share the story, I’d thought about doing a trip with them as well. I was turned off by the aggressive time and distance, if the driver isn’t being paid, at least I’d like the option of a few days of time to really enjoy the road trip.
I’m looking forward to someone stepping in and creating a RelayRides/AirBnB/Couchsurfing drive-my-car site where there are more automations in the system, particularly around payments, and also the verification systems that are easily done now with social media connections.
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Hey Lauren,
Great comments. There really is a void in this market isn’t there? On one side I do realize that these people don’t want to be ‘without’ their cars for long, especially if they’ve packed important things in their vehicle. But on the other side, there is a huge opportunity to align drivers and owners ahead of time so that rushed trips and routes can be avoided.
Which brings me to the big allure of rental cars – unlimited mileage…! Hit the open road and go whever you want, day or night…
YIKES! It sounds like it would be such a good idea, but after this thourough review I’d rather hitch hike and train hop!!!!!
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Ha Kae….train hopping! Now there is a fun way to get around. In Canada anyways, the Via trains are constantly offered at 50-75% off if you get their emails and check theri specials, so no need to hop around illegally if you have some coin
FYI – Red Hunt your article ‘A Word of Warning about HittheRoad.ca’ has garnered much interest in the following thread, which you might like to read.
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/hittheroad-ca-anyone-1180626/
Mr. Smaller is (appears to be) a participant in this discussion.
Hi MJB,
Thanks for sharing that link, interesting discussion indeed. I don’t want to get into a chat on RFD as I’d just be re-hashing a lot of what I wrote here already. Feel free to advise people of my comments posted below.
A few comments on Mr. Smaller’s last post on that thread (posted on Jul 24th, 2012 12:34 AM):
If by me looking into renting a car to get home and being told the delivery vhicle was in the wrong city = no problems, I guess so. Had I charged HTR an hourly rate for my time lost, they’d owe me more than my deposit back! I returned for a second trip thinking it was a fluke – give them the benefit of the doubt that the issues were an anomaly (not so).
After back and forth discussions, this ‘charge’ was not agreed upon. It was a loyalty offer he made with the client himself. Nor did ‘I’ create the damage to the vehicle.
HTR originally advised me to ‘talk to the client’ directly to resolve the issue. I did and they accepted it as no fault of mine. They signed the delivery agreement indicating that all was good. Deposit to be returned. End of story.
Despite that, Hit the Road feels otherwise for unknown reasons.
Thanks for taking the time to post this article, Red – I’ve been discussing taking a car from Halifax to Calgary (originally posted as Edmonton) with Mr. Smaller for the past two weeks and have had a sense of flaky-ness from his phone calls and emails
Any company pointing to the Better Business Bureau as a source of endorsement is a cause for concern. Further, as you point out, since drivers are not consumers and therefore beyond the reach of the toothless BBB, Mr. Smaller is offering nothing.
CanadaDriveAway’s charge-back of 3% for the credit card fee comes across as Mickey Mouse, particularly since they hold back a “portion” of the deposit for a “minimum” of four weeks – there seems to be a consistent surfacing of vagueness about this operation that causes me, as a first timer, concern. More of that “something flaky about this guy” feeling.
Though I’ve received an offer for a vehicle I’m not feeling all that sure about the deal – the $350 will cover about half the fuel cost for this particular vehicle and, with hotel and food costs, the overall cost is close enough to costs for a flight, train or bus that I’m not sure if the uncertainty surrounding Smaller’s approach and CanadaDriveAway is worth the benefit of a road-trip which, otherwise, ought to be a pretty cool drive.
Hey Larry!
You’re a brave man if you go ahead and take the offer after all of your own concerns and those voiced by myself and others here. Let me know if you do take the ride…between the helpless BBB, chargeback fee and flaky management, I wish you luck.
Thanks very much for sharing your experience!
I was considering applying to drive with them, but will definitely avoid them!
Hi Rachel,
This is almost turning into a kind of public service to help inform people of the risks they might not otherwise realize. Car-sharing and car rentals are great alternatives, especially if you factor in that you could lose $500 by choosing car delivery.
Thanks everyone for all the info!!! Especially the author!!
I have absolutely changed my mind and will not sign up for their service!!!
Happy you found my post helpful Chris. I’ve received a lot of communications from people about hittheroad.ca and there is a possibility of suing them for monies owed, we’ll see what develops!
Red Hunt,
In the section titled Disorganized Issue 3, you wrote
I was given an extra day of driving to deliver the car. Cool, but that meant last-minute accommodation changes.
Why would being given an extra day to deliver the car mean accommodation changes? Did you mean to say that you had no choice but to deliver the car a day later?
Dear Red Hunt,
I appreciate your post. I’ve tweeted it back to @HitTheRoad.ca, along with other tweets.
I learned about HTR within this hour, when they advertised on Craigslist RideShare. I posted a message of my own on the Rideshare section warning my Craigslist community about HTR, with a link to this post of yours.
Thanks Platt,
Considering that Hit The Road has to continuously advertise their services on Craigslist, Kijiji and similar online ad boards, I think that speaks volumes in terms of them not having enough returning, happy drivers.
Regarding the extra day. I could have kept to the shorter schedule of course. But, like anyone who enjoyed road trips, I wanted to maximize my roadside attractions and time in new cities, so the surprise extra day meant a quick re-work to enjoy more time on the road.
I haven’t used any of the other services I link to in the article, but hopefully someone else can chime in.
Thanks for spreading the word about the poor experiences myself and others have had.
Red Hunt (or any other reader),
Have you used some other Vehicle Delivery Service? Would love to read of a competitor who treats their drivers right.
Earlier this year I wrote to Hit The Road with questions about driveaway details .. and something in the tone or language of response caused me to say no to this outfit.
Well said Mary. That ‘vibe’ has been echoed by others, glad you went with you gut feeling and found other travel options.
Thanks so much for the info. Think I will rent a car instead!
Cheers Mike…you’ll have better piece of mind, even if you have to pay a bit for it.
Interesting read! I had never heard of this service before, but I’m glad I found out about it through your review (which seems very balanced to me, by the way).
It seems Mr Smaller suffers from the same thing I’ve noticed about a good number of other small business owners; great at coming up with cool ideas… not so great at executing them well (there is a reason so many small business fail, after all).
Thanks for sharing!
Dan
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Thanks for commenting Dan. You’re right too, a simple Management 101 course could do wonders in this case.
Hi!
I really appreciate your article as I was thinking about contacting HTR. Thank you!
Do you know of any other similar companies in Canada? Or a similar way to travel across Canada? I have plans of doing a trip from east (Montreal/Ottawa) to the west (Calgary/Edmonton) in early June.
Mina
Hi Mina, check the links at the end of the article for companies like torontodriveaway.com and professionaldrivers.com There are quite a few car pooling websites out there too, so check them out – http://www.erideshare.com is a popular one. Otherwise you can train it with VIA or take a bus with Greyhound…lots of options!