Transportation and driver signups

For events that require carpools — campouts, hikes, far-away district events — turn on driver signups so parents can volunteer their seats.

Enabling

In the event form, check Enable driver signup (transportation). This adds a Transportation section to the event detail page where any family can fill in:

Vehicle (free text — make/model or just a nickname).
Direction — to the event, from the event, or both.
Seats available for each direction.

Vehicle and seat defaults pull from a family's saved vehicles list (in Family > Edit), so most parents only need to confirm.

Who can see signups

Every member can see who's signed up to drive and which directions have remaining seats. Families coordinate ride-shares directly — MyTroop does not automatically assign scouts to specific cars.

Coordinating

For complex events you may want to follow up with a list message to RSVP yeses:

Open the event detail page.
Use the per-event message tool to email yeses with a "we still need 2 more drivers" reminder.

Or hand-assign passengers in a doc and link it from the event description.

Why offer "to" and "from" separately?

Parents often can carpool one direction but not both — dropping kids off Friday but picking up Sunday with a different family, etc. Tracking each leg avoids the mid-event confusion of "wait, who's driving back?"

Trailer tracking

If an event needs the troop trailer (gear, patrol boxes, camp kitchen), check Needs trailer to event and/or Needs trailer from event under the transportation section. These are independent — sometimes a trailer only needs to be delivered one way.

For a trailer-capable vehicle to count, a parent must mark the vehicle as Can pull the troop trailer in their family profile (Family > Edit > Vehicles). When a trailer-capable parent signs up to drive, the event is automatically considered "covered" for that direction.

The driver roster capacity card shows the trailer status per direction:

Covered (green) — at least one signed-up driver has a trailer-capable vehicle.
Not covered (red) — no trailer-capable driver is signed up yet.

Leaders can optionally promote a specific driver as the one actually hauling the trailer using the Bringing trailer (to) / (from) toggle on that driver's row. When set, the explicit assignment drives the coverage status. Only one driver per direction may be marked at a time; toggling a new driver clears the prior holder.