The boycott began with carpools. At the beginning, there were eighteen black taxi drivers volunteering to replace bus transportation for the same price, which was ten cents. That was declared illegal and warnings were sent out to remind the drivers that minimum fare was forty-five cents. If that wasn't charged, it could be a punishable crime. So over one hundred and fifty people volunteered their private cars. Most of the drivers had schedules that wouldn't permit them to drive during the workweek. These situations brought upon difficulties, and the transportation committee decided that they had to plan a way they could get seventeen thousand, five hundred people to and from work each day. They came up with the idea of dispatch and pickup stations. The stations were placed all over town and pamplets were handed out showing the locations and schedules of the stations.
