My friend is becoming desperate in a search for a girlfriend. As a friend, what advice can I give him...?

He's talking to girls on Blackberry Messenger, he's travelling 2+ hours to meet these girls and then nothing happens. He's always had trouble with confidence around women, but he's becoming desperate for a girlfriend so much that it's worrying to see as a friend. The last girl he spoke to is 17 years old and he's 23, she's even asked him if it would bother him that she's pregnant from her ex boyfriend, and he's telling her it's fine. It's not fine! He doesn't want to be tied down to a baby from another father, he's still young! I have told him he's being stupid by travelling to these places and meeting these women. They're playing him, because they're asking him to travel to their area, but they aren't willing to compromise and meet half way or at their area. He's being so gullible at the moment, and It's not good to see him like this. If there was a way I could help him, I would, but he's just acting very desperate for a girlfriend. Why is he like this? He even said himself that he's desperate, but he has no hobbies and he works with a bunch of guys, so he doesn't have any chance to meet other girls. We're reasonably close, but recently he's been a little distant with his friends, so it kind of drives us away from him. What advice can I give him?