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I once travelled with a group who hired a "man with a van" (he drove a JFK-LaGuardia shuttle) to drive us from JFK Airport to Massachusettes (more than 200 miles). We payed him 600 bucks under the table, and we let him stop to pick up his wife for company on the return trip. All in all, it was the nicest part of that travelling-weekend-from-hell.