Occasion 03
Being recognised is a logistics problem before it is anything else. A car that looks like every other dark car in this city, a chauffeur who has already driven the route once without you in it, an entrance agreed with the venue rather than guessed at, and nobody afterwards who can say where you went.
01 — The work
Discretion is not a manner or a uniform. It is a short list of decisions taken early: which entrance, which hour, who holds the phone number, what gets written down, and what is never written down at all.
What this is. Chauffeured ground transport for people who are known by sight — musicians moving between a hotel and a stage, actors on a press day, a manager who needs four cars to leave one building inside the same ten minutes. The vehicles are ordinary and deliberately so. Anything that earns a second look defeats the reason for booking it.
What it is not. We are a licensed chauffeur operator and nothing beyond that. Not a security company, not a protection detail, no weapons and no armoured vehicles. We hold no credentials, passes or standing arrangements with any venue, promoter, festival, studio or brand, and we are affiliated with none of them. Where a protection team is engaged by you, our chauffeur works to its instructions on the day.
Who knows about it. The dispatcher who takes the booking and the chauffeur who drives it. Addresses stay in the reservation system rather than in a group chat, the itinerary is not forwarded to anyone who does not need to move a vehicle, and the office will not confirm to a caller that a booking exists.
Nothing is posted. No photographs of a passenger, of a vehicle outside an address, or of an interior after a journey. No name mentioned to the next passenger and no story about the evening. Every chauffeur signs a non-disclosure agreement before driving, which is the one promise of this kind on our site that we can point at a document for.
You do not know who was in the car. You did not see the address. There is no photograph, because none was taken.
RG Black Limo LLC — standing instruction to every chauffeur
02 — The advance run
An advance run is a chauffeur and a vehicle spending an hour on your route while you are somewhere else. It is booked as hours like any other work, and it removes most of what tends to go wrong at a kerb.
Advance work is booked as hours, and hourly chauffeuring starts from $85 — the figure for your itinerary comes back in writing before we accept the booking. Deposits, cancellation windows and waiting allowances are stated on your confirmation rather than invented on a web page. Vehicle detail sits on the fleet page, and the way we handle press days and shoots is on brand and production transportation.
03 — Discretion, as procedure
Good intentions leak. What follows is applied to every booking of this kind, whether or not the person making it thinks to ask.
Where security fits. If close protection belongs in the plan, engage a licensed security firm for it and tell us they are coming. The two jobs sit alongside each other perfectly well: they decide how the passenger moves between the door and the car, we decide nothing except how the car is driven, and our chauffeur takes direction from them on the road.
Commercial terms are not listed on this page because the honest version of them lives on your confirmation — deposits, cancellation windows and waiting allowances included. If you want to know why we quote that way, why book direct sets it out.
04 — The cars
The Escalade ESV does most of this work, and not because it is the biggest thing we run. Six passengers with luggage behind them, black on black to the standard this city already expects, and common enough on these roads that it reads as nothing in particular. That last part is the entire appeal.
Three travelling together who would rather have a saloon take the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Seven with cases take a Chevrolet Suburban. A GMC Yukon Denali seats the same six as the Escalade, and dispatch will tell you which of the two is free for your date. A party of up to fourteen moves in one Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, which beats three cars trying to hold together through Hollywood at eleven at night.
If a vehicle has to change. You hear it from the office before the pickup rather than working it out in the driveway — same class or better, and the same chauffeur wherever the diary permits.
Six passengers, luggage behind them, and a silhouette so ordinary here that it earns no second glance at a kerb. Bottled water aboard, one chauffeur held to the booking, and nothing anywhere on the vehicle that names us.
05 — The bookings
Written as situations rather than as clients, because we do not publish who sits in our cars. If yours is not among them it is very likely a version of one of them.
Sound check in the afternoon, back to the hotel, then a vehicle at the venue well before the set and again the moment it ends. Load-in timing is the part people underestimate: a car arriving while the trucks are still on the ramp is in everybody's way, so we ask production for the schedule and work our arrivals around it.
Between runs the chauffeur stays with the vehicle at an agreed holding point rather than circling the block, which means the wait after the encore is a phone call and not a search.
Thirty minutes here, an hour there, a schedule that slips by ten minutes at every stop and a publicist holding the only accurate copy of it. Days like that are booked as hours and driven as directed, so the car simply stays with you and the running order can change without a new reservation.
By the third stop the vehicle is the only quiet room anybody has had since breakfast. It is kept that way. Detail on how as-directed hours work is on hourly and as-directed.
The valley is a hundred and thirty miles of freeway from most Los Angeles front doors, and the last two are the ones that ruin an evening. Parties travelling out for a set generally want the same thing: driven out on the quiet day, driven in each night, and a car on call for whenever the last thing they wanted to see actually finishes.
The full version of that weekend, including where the meeting points sit, is on Coachella transportation.
Dinner, a screening, somebody else's house in the hills with one lane in and nowhere to turn round. Two cars and a manifest solve most of it: everyone knows which vehicle they are in before they leave, and nobody hands a key to a stranger at a kerb.
Where the same passenger travels for a run of days, the sensible arrangement is a private driver held for the week rather than a new booking each morning.
There are no client names on this page and nothing quoted from one, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. If it makes us harder to check, ask the office for the TCP licence and the insurance certificate instead — those we can send you, and about the company covers the rest.
06 — Questions
Yes. Every chauffeur signs one before driving, and it covers names, addresses, itineraries and anything said in the back of the car. It also covers photographs, which are not taken at all: not of the passenger, not of the vehicle outside an address, not for a private album.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. We are a licensed chauffeur operator: unmarked dark vehicles, chauffeurs who say nothing afterwards, and routes worked out before the passenger travels. We carry no weapons, provide no close protection and hold no armoured vehicles. Where a protection team is engaged, our chauffeur takes instruction from it on the day.
Only where the venue or your host has told us which entrance to use. We hold no credentials, passes or standing arrangements with any venue, promoter or festival, so we ask in advance and then use whatever we are given. Anybody guaranteeing access to a building they do not own is selling something they cannot deliver.
A chauffeur drives the route before the passenger does, at a comparable hour, and writes down what a map will not show: which entrance is usable, where a vehicle may stand and for how long, how far the walk from the kerb actually is, and what the alternative is if the first choice is blocked. It is booked as hours like any other work.
Usually a black Cadillac Escalade ESV, which takes six passengers with luggage and attracts no attention in this city. An S-Class for three, a Suburban for seven, a Sprinter for fourteen when a touring party travels together. No livery, no roof sign and no branding on any of them.
Ask, and dispatch keeps the same person on the booking wherever the diary allows. Repeat work is easier for everyone: the chauffeur already knows the gate code, the entrance and how the car should arrive, and none of it has to be explained twice.
Anything not covered here goes to dispatch on (323) 799-3190, at any hour. The rest of the calendar sits on events and occasions, and other ways to reach the office are on contact.
07 — Reserve
Dates, the hours you need a vehicle held, how many are travelling and where you are going. Dispatch prices it in writing, names the chauffeur before the day, and adds the advance run if the route warrants one.
(323) 799-3190Answered at every hour, by the people who dispatch the cars. Text or WhatsApp reach the same number.