Lending your vehicle to a friend or relative isn’t always as simple as handing over the keys. If the person who borrows your car is pulled over by the police, or is involved in an accident, he or she will need to prove that you agreed to lend out your car. If the borrower can’t show permission, he or she may be detained while police investigate whether the vehicle is stolen.

Completing this authorization form provides important legal proof that you’ve given someone else permission to drive your vehicle.

This form provides a place to list important information, such as your insurance policy number, that will help ensure that your guest driver (and car) are taken care of, even in the event of an accident or other mishap. You can also use this form to set restrictions or limits.

This form is designed for a car, but it will work fine for a motorcycle, truck or motorboat.

Operating system: Windows- and Macintosh-compatible. The computer you use to purchase an eForm must be the same computer you will download it to. (For example, don't purchase the eForm using your computer at work if you intend to download it later on to your home computer; instead, wait until you're on the computer you intend to download the eForm to and then make your purchase. After you've downloaded the file, you will be able to "transfer" it to another computer by copying it to external media or by email.) In addition, you will not be able to download this file if:

• cookies are disabled on your computer, or
• a firewall prevents you from downloading files from the Internet.

Software: Before you can use an eForm, additional software must be installed:
To expand the ZIP archive you download after making your purchase, you'll need:

• A decompression utility such as the following, both of which can be downloaded for free:

• 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org) (for Windows users).
• StuffIt Expander (http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit/expander.html) (for Macintosh). Please note: Many recently manufactured Macs have a native capability to decompress zip files. See your computer's user manual for verification of this and instructions for access.

To open, fill out and print an eForm, you need a word processor that "reads" RTF (rich text format) files:

• Windows XP & Vista both come with WordPad, an RTF-compatible word processor.
• Macintosh OS X comes with TextEdit, an RTF-compatible word processor; non-OS X users need Word 5.0 or greater, WordPerfect 2.1 or greater, or another RTF-compatible word processor.