How to Save Money Commuting

Save time, save money – and get some of your life back

This post is about how to save money commuting.

Easing the burden (and cutting the cost) of daily commuting is easy - in theory. You can save money commuting. How much money you actually save commuting depends on the nature of your job and the flexibility of your employer.

Here are four key strategies to save money (and time) commuting to work and back:

1. How to save money by telecommuting: Convince the boss you can work from home

Obviously it’s not a one-size-fits-all proposition, but in an increasingly digital world many of us could save money commuting simply by working from home – at least some of the time. If you have broadband, you can even communicate face-to-face with colleagues over Skype. Writing proposals, reports, etc., editing video, graphic design, admin – many jobs have an ‘e-world’ component that can be done just as proficiently from home as from the office. Working from home is the perfect way to save money commuting.

The key to making this work is to make it a

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Sydney Radio 2UE Toll Road Challenge Video

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Sydney Radio 2UE Toll Road Challenge

The epic failure of Sydney’s toll roads continues

POTENTIAL SAVING: $2232 annually, and 90 hours a week - one way

At 7.30am on Wednesday 9 November 2011, Radio 2UE broadcaster Paul Murray and I left Bankstown railway station in two separate cars, headed for The Rocks in Sydney. This seemingly inauspicious event was broadcast right across Sydney on 2UE.

Jason Morrison, 2UE’s breakfast host, covered our progress (if that’s the right word) regularly over the next 90 minutes or so, to answer the question: Are toll roads a fraud? In this case, the answer came back an unequivocal

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The Terrible Cost of Commuting

Here's how we Australians are literally wasting our lives in traffic

Our capital cities are becoming ridiculously congested. It’s taking its toll – in both literal and metaphoric terms.

If you spend one hour commuting – each way – to work and back (and plenty of people do) you’re not driving any more; you’re wasting about 480 hours a year in traffic.

At the end of a year, you will have spent the same amount of time simply commuting to and from work as most people spend awake in one month.

In other words, commuting to and from work is taking many parents out of play as far as their families are concerned for one month every year, in total. An alternative way to process this information is that if you are lucky enough to take four weeks’ annual leave every year – four weeks doing nothing, soaking up rays at the beach, whatever – this is exactly the same period of time that you will spend commuting for the rest of the year.

The number of motor vehicles on Australian roads has increased

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Petrol Price Saver

Capitalizing on downward swings in petrol price is simple - but only if you refuel smarter

Petrol companies paint the picture that petrol price is both logical and cheap, but the reality appears quite different

This post is about petrol price and how to drive so you can re-fuel more often when petrol prices are comparatively low, thereby saving money.

Petrol price fluctuations

Petrol price fluctuations at the service station are inevitable and unpredictable – but there is a very simple driving and refueling strategy that will allow you to save whenever the petrol price drops. It’s an easy, no-compromise way for any driver to cut the cost of motoring.