(7 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)
Loading ...Planning on partying this superbowl/FDR Open weekend? Then maybe you should check out Zingo Designated Driver service! With the increasing DUI penalties a lot of people are staying home and a lot of bars and venues are feeling the loss. In the end, nobody’s having fun. That’s where Zingo comes in. Say you’ve had too many at the bar:
-Call 877-NO DUI AZ (663-8429)
-Your fully insured driver arrives on a folding motorbike
-Folds it, bags it, puts it in your trunk
-Takes your keys
-Drives you home
Zingo Transportation, Inc. was founded in October 2005 by Atlanta entrepreneurs Jim Valentine, Charles Barfield, and PX Head. They founded Zingo to give people a viable option to the number one reason people make the bad decision to drink and drive–leaving their car behind.
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February 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
In the UK they are known as the “scooter boys”, and have been around since the 90’s. They perform the exact same service down to the letter. Don’t take credit for other peoples work, asshats.
February 15th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
We had this in Kentucky in ‘04. “Entrepreneur” my ass.
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=25858&comview=1
February 16th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Whoa, take it easy folks. I think these people are just trying to provide a service. What’s wrong with getting a ride home if you’re drunk?
February 17th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
good idea but give credit where credit is due. Not nice to borrow another’s idea for your own use without crediting the originators. Bad Karma. What goes around comes around. Besides other people have been doing the designated driver job for hundreds of years. probably had designated horsemen.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Wow – you people need to chill – I don’t read anywhere that they claim to have invented the idea of not driving drunk, it just sounds like they’ve offered up a great solution to make it easier on people to make the choice not to. And, the morons above should check the definition of Entrepreneur;
1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
2. an employer of productive labor; contractor.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:23 am
We totally agree with the whole giving credit where credit is due thing…
Scooter Patrol.started giving FREE rides home 5 years ago and DID give credit where credit was due in the media as well as on our website- http://www.scooterpatrol.org (see FAQ page).
There have been quite a few companies that have popped up since we started in ‘03 and claimed responsiblity for the whole concept of designated driving.
They’ve all gone under since…
If they’d done their homework they would have found out that companies like the DDA (Designated Drivers Association) and the NCPID (National Council for the Prevention of Impaired Driving) have been giving free rides home to people in their own cars for a decade! This is not to mention the UK company- Scooter Man http://www.scooterman.co.uk.
We’re also left to wonder about the President of Zingo- PX Head who recently killed someone drunk driving- what is it about being a convicted killer that makes him such an expert on designated driving and why in the world is he attempting to profit from same without even showing any remorse for what he did???
He should be begging the family of the guy he killed for forgiveness and volunteering for MADD- not profiting from the horrible tragedy his careless actions caused….
Scooter Patrol USA
May 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Before you go bashing PX Head, read the story. He did have an accident while driving under the influence, and he killed one of his best friends. The friend’s family asked the court not to ruin his life too, and the court gave him 30 days in jail, extended probation and a 2nd chance – and told him he’d better make good of it. He did. When he ran across this business, he joined as a partner to try to help prevent future incidences like his. I’d say there’s nothing wrong with that. Don’t pick on someone for trying to do what they can to keep another mistake from being made. And the family did forgive…. Ticks me off when people go condemning others without checking out the story. Grow up.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
the scooter patrol guy is a dick…he has a high and mighty attitude whereas in reality no one has ever even heard of his business where he operates. zingo is the one company actually making this a viable business idea in the states….and its not even easy business to run..trust me i know…who cares if they weren’t the first.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Come on guys, this is a good service. Scooter Patrol needs to learn some PR skills, you don’t sign your name proudly on an email like that you jackass. Is that your company policy? Bash people? Scooter Patrol’s scooters are so gay they buy them at a toy store. Can’t afford real ones I guess. DDriving is killing us and these companies bash each other? WHo cares who started it. If you are getting drunks off the road may the best man win. I’m not sure how Scooter Patrol can with those gay scooters.
It should be called gayscooterpatrol.queer
April 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
The Scooter Patrol guy is a douche…what a moron (attaching his business name to an email like that).
May 11th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
There is obviously a lot to know about this subject. Some interesting points made there.
March 26th, 2010 at 12:57 am
Dude don’t bash it’s a great service and on top of that Arizona has the worst DUI laws in the country. I’d rather pay 30 dollars than 3000 in fines and jail time
May 24th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Lets give credit where credit is due. To my knowledge the first person to use “teams” of two people to drive people and their cars home for them was Jim Congable in Richmond VA. I met Jim in 2000 and he had been doing it for 7 years (1993) at that point. He was a limousine driver in Richmond and when he finished his job for the night would go by his favorite bar to hang out. He would see numerous people leave the bar and drink and drive, so he decided to offer these people a free ride home in his limo but they would say “no” because they did not want to leave their car behind. Frustrated with this fact, he would pick up his wife and take her with him to the bar so she could drive their car while they rode for free in the limo. Eventually bars began to pay him monthly ($400) to have this “service” available for free on Friday and Saturday night. He started a non-profit called the Designated Drivers Association and convinced me in 2000 to open a chapter in Atlanta. We got the bars to pay the monthly fee and recruited volunteers to work in teams to drive home patrons of the sponsoring bars. Eventually, with his permission, I broke away from his group and created the non-profit National Council for the Prevention of Impaired Driving, Inc. and recently changed the name to SafeRide America. We now provide over 1000 SafeRides a month in Atlanta. Proceeds go to expand SafeRide’s services with $1 from each ride going to SafeFund, which assists children that have been orphaned or injured by impaired drivers. Although I am not a fan of the scooter concept, it is better than doing nothing. I know both PX and the Scooter Patrol guy and both are good people trying to make a difference in their own way. To my knowledge Zingo was the first scooter company and began in 2005. I hope this clears things up!
August 13th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
What the hell? Are we in high school? I came here looking for an actual review on this service, how fast, how reliable, wide coverage area or just in downtown, etc. and all I find is comment after comment of fruitless arguments about whose damn idea the thing was. I wasted my time reading all of these useless comments and still know nothing useful about Zingo. I’m actually out there living life and pop on the web sometimes because it’s a great tool for information. I spend more time weeding through the nonsense of F’king faceless, pompous, no life internet junkies. Stop wasting people’s time.
November 8th, 2010 at 10:39 am
What you said makes a lot of sense. I hope other readers feel the same way.
May 12th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Nicely put td….so annoying! Freakin haters..