Black car service
A sedan, a chauffeur in a suit, a fixed quote and an arrival time you can build a morning around. The default for dinners, meetings and one-way airport runs.
Black car service
Services
Every way we drive.
Fifteen services, and the same fleet and the same vetted chauffeurs behind all of them. What changes between them is the shape of the day — an hour, a flight, a nine-stop schedule, a wedding, a festival weekend.
01 — The directory
Fifteen services, four kinds of day.
Almost nobody arrives knowing the name of the service they want. They know the shape of the day. Find the row that sounds like yours and follow it.
- One journey
- A single pickup and a single destination, priced before you get in: black car service, chauffeur service, executive car service and luxury car service. Flights sit here too — see airport transfers and the set-price routes.
- A block of time
- You keep the car and the chauffeur and decide where it goes as the day unfolds: hourly and as-directed, private driver for a week or a season, roadshow transportation for multi-stop days, and concierge transportation for standing arrangements.
- More people than a sedan
- Four to fourteen passengers, with the luggage still fitting: luxury SUV service, Sprinter van service, and group transportation when the party needs more than one vehicle and a staging plan.
- An occasion, or a production
- Days with a timeline someone else set: wedding transportation, VIP transportation, brand and production transportation, and corporate travel with account billing. Festivals and match days live under events.
The names matter less than they look. Every one of these is the same company, the same six vehicle classes and the same chauffeurs — the service name only tells dispatch how to build the day.
02 — If you are not sure
Three good places to start.
Between them these three cover most of what we are asked to do in a week. If none of them fits, the directory above will.
Hourly & as-directed
Keep the car for three hours or twelve. Nothing is fixed but the start time, and the chauffeur waits rather than leaving between stops. From $85 per hour.
Hourly chauffeurLuxury SUV service
Escalade ESV, Yukon Denali or Suburban for six or seven people who are travelling with real luggage rather than a laptop bag each.
Luxury SUV service
03 — Constant
Six things that do not change whichever one you book.
- A written quote first. You see the figure, in writing, before anything is charged — and it is the figure you pay.
- No surge, ever. A Friday evening in December costs what a Tuesday morning in March costs.
- The car you booked. The class on your confirmation is the class that pulls up. Nothing is quietly downgraded.
- A person on the phone. Dispatch is staffed around the clock, holidays included — not a queue and not a bot.
- Chauffeurs who read the itinerary. Route, gate, venue and parking worked out before the engine starts.
- Commercial licence and insurance. On every vehicle in the fleet, on every journey.
04 — Side by side
Ten of them, and when each one is right.
The vehicle column is what most clients end up in, not a restriction — any service can be run in any class that fits the party.
| Service | Best when | Usually |
|---|---|---|
| Black car service | One journey, one fixed price, sedan comfort | Mercedes S-Class |
| Executive car service | A working day, a quiet cabin, billing to an account | S-Class or BMW X5 |
| Hourly & as-directed | The plan will change after lunch and you know it | Any class |
| Private driver | The same chauffeur every day for a week or longer | S-Class or Escalade ESV |
| Roadshow transportation | Six to ten stops across the city in one day | S-Class or Escalade ESV |
| Luxury SUV service | Six or seven passengers travelling with real luggage | Escalade ESV, Yukon Denali, Suburban |
| Sprinter van service | Eight to fourteen people arriving together | Mercedes Sprinter |
| Group transportation | More people than any one vehicle holds | A mix, staged |
| Wedding transportation | A timeline agreed weeks in advance and held to | Sprinter plus SUVs |
| VIP transportation | Arriving without being photographed doing it | Unmarked SUV or sedan |
Scroll the table sideways to see all three columns.
We have used four of these services in eighteen months — airport runs, an hourly booking for a board day, a Sprinter for a team offsite and one wedding. Same office, same standard, one invoice at the end of the month.
The only thing I would change is that I wish the booking form let me save the addresses.
Derek S.Corporate account, eighteen months
05 — Which of the two?
Four pairs that sound alike and are not.
These are the four choices dispatch is asked to settle most often. If yours is here, you can decide without calling.
Black car service is the everyday version: a sedan, a chauffeur, a fixed price, get in and go. Luxury car service is the same car booked for an evening where the arrival is part of the occasion — more time held, doors opened, and the schedule built around the reservation rather than the traffic.
Compare them directly: black car service and luxury car service.
Hourly is a block of time on one day — three hours, eight hours, whatever the day needs. A private driver is a standing arrangement across days or weeks, usually the same chauffeur each time, so preferences stop needing to be explained.
Read hourly and as-directed or private driver.
Up to six or seven people, an SUV is quicker through the city and easier at a kerb. Eight or more, or a group that would rather travel together and talk on the way, the fourteen-seat Sprinter is the answer — one vehicle, one arrival time, and nobody left following in a second car.
See luxury SUV service, Sprinter van service, or the capacity table.
Wedding transportation is planned to a timeline agreed weeks beforehand, with the couple's car treated separately from the guest movements. Group transportation is the wider service — any occasion where several vehicles have to arrive in a particular order, whether that is a conference shuttle or a birthday.
See wedding transportation, group transportation, or the events pages.
06 — Where they run
Every service on this page runs across the same map.
We are based in Los Angeles and drive outward from it: the Westside and the Valley daily, Orange County and the Coachella Valley constantly, San Diego often enough that it has a set price. Longer runs — Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Las Vegas — are quoted individually rather than pretended to be routine.
There is no walk-in office and no depot you need to visit. Pickups are wherever you are: a house, a hotel, a terminal kerb, a private terminal at Van Nuys, a soundstage gate.
07 — Book one
Describe the day. We will name the service.
You do not have to pick the right label off this page. Tell us where you are going, how many are travelling and what time it starts, and dispatch will put the correct service and vehicle on a written quote.
(323) 799-3190Or keep reading: the six vehicle classes, why book direct, what clients say.