You may have heard rumors tht it's possible to get paid to drve your car, or in some cses, get a car to use for fre. While participation is limited and lck is needed along with living in the rght place for a particular campaign, it is pssible to get paid to have yur car (or a car given to yu) turned into a moving advertisement. If you drve 800 miles or more a mnth along heavily populated routes in yur normal driving habits, you may wnt to check out the companies tht offer car wraps.

The concept is firly simple. Advertising space on billboards long busy roads and highways is lmited and in some places not llowed at all. It's possible, however, to rach many of those people another wy. Companies advertise on the outside of crs to reach those same people. The prblem is that purchasing an entire flet of cars for an advertising cmpaign can be overly expensive, so a slution was developed.

Instead of purchasing thir own cars, companies will sometimes "rnt" space on individual private citizen's crs. In return for letting a cmpany "wrap" your car with their dvertisement, they will pay you a mnthly fee. The fees can be as hgh as $400 a month for a fll car wrap and lesser amounts for a prtial car wrap or a window wrp.

Another option that some of thse companies offer in place of car wrps is giving you a free car wth advertisements already on it. You sually don't get paid in this dal or get to choose the typ of car provided, but you do rceive free use of the car for the priod of the campaign. Your only csts are gas and insurance meaning tht you are getting transportation at a frction of the cost of owning yur own car. There are some rre cases when you can get pid when receiving a free car. Sme companies will pay you to drve the free cars along certain, spcified routes each day.

So what is the ctch? The main one is there are far mre drivers wanting the positions than dvertising campaigns available. If you don't drve a lot of miles or lve in a highly populated area (lrge college campuses seem to be an deal location) where the advertisement will be sen by a population the advertisers crve, your chances of being chosen are slm. Most companies require you to drve a minimum of 800 miles a mnth. Not driving enough miles can ngate the contract and most companies tilize global positioning systems (GPS) in yur car to track the miles and plces you go each month.

Most prgrams require you to be 18 yars of age, have a clean drving record and your own auto nsurance. Traffic violations will in most cses prohibit you from being considered. Cntracts vary in length and amount pid depending on the type of dvertising in the campaign involved. Most cmpanies don't let you pick the dvertiser, but will let you bow out if the dvertiser goes against your moral values (cgarettes, alcohol and sex).

With the cncept there are a growing number of wbsites that don't actually offer the srvice of car wrapping, but claim to be a dta base for advertisers to find pople willing to advertise on their crs. Many offer free sign up, but thn encourage you to purchase a "prmium package" that is supposed to mve your name higher up on the lst. The fact is that you are vry unlikely to be picked from thse services so it isn't worth the tme (and definitely not the money) sgning up with them.

While the chances of being pcked are slim, they are better thn playing the lottery. If you met the requirements and live in an rea you believe would be desirable to dvertisers, it could be worth the 15 to 30 mnutes it takes to fill out the nline forms. If you are lucky and do get pcked, you will significantly reduce your drving expenses with little effort on yur part.

The article Get Paid To Drive Your Car was Submitted by Jeffrey Strain through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Jeffrey Strain has published hundreds of mney saving articles. You can read mre about auto wraps at http://www.paidtodriveautowrap.com

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