My girls get to sit in the backseat of the car and upfront in the truck. We try not to let them ride in the truck very often, but Brian does take them in it sometimes to run a quick errand or two or if he has to take them somewhere in the middle of the day while I'm at work. For our last trip, we put the backseats down in the camry and put our luggage in the very back of the trunk. The girls had the rest of the room to lay down and relax on the long trip. We might crate them if we had the room, but Destiny's crate would probably not fit in the car if it was put together and Dakota definately would not fit in there with it. Plus, there's barely a crate bit enough for Dakota, there's no way it would fit in my car! Maybe one day we'll have a cover over the truck and we can crate them with lots of comfort in the back of the truck (of course we would make it as secure and safe for them as possible! But we would never let them ride back there the way it is now, too easy for them to get hurt, try to jump out, etc., etc., etc.