Service 05
Executive airport runs, visiting clients, full-day roadshows and the standing Tuesday pickup. Named chauffeurs, quoted fares, one invoice at month end — and a dispatcher who answers the phone at 4am because the flight moved.
01 — Definition
Corporate travel is the least interesting line on a trip budget and the one most likely to embarrass you. A car that does not turn up, a driver who cannot find the right entrance at a Century City tower, a receipt that arrives three weeks later at double the quote — none of it is expensive on its own, and all of it lands on the assistant who booked it.
What we run instead is an account. You tell us who travels, where they usually go and who signs off. From then on a booking is a sentence: Mr Adeyemi, Wednesday, seven-fifteen, home to the Century Plaza. The vehicle is assigned, the chauffeur is named, the figure is already known, and the ride appears on one monthly invoice with your cost centre against it.
We are a direct operator. The ninety-nine vehicles are ours, the chauffeurs are on our payroll, and the person who answers the phone can see the car on the map. Nothing is farmed out to a third party at the last minute, which is the usual reason a booking goes wrong in the first place.
Most of what corporate clients book falls into four shapes: the airport run, the client collection, the as-directed day, and the standing weekly booking. All four are covered below, and all four are priced in the open.
02 — Why it holds up
Corporate ground transport fails in predictable ways. These are the four we designed the account around.
Every ride carries the cost centre, project or matter number you gave at booking, and the month arrives as a single itemised invoice. No card charge per journey, no chasing drivers for receipts, no expense report built out of screenshots.
Regular passengers get one or two named chauffeurs rather than whoever accepts the job. He knows the gate code, the garage level, the tower entrance that avoids the lobby, and that the second call of the morning is usually taken in silence.
Chauffeurs are on location ahead of the booking and wait out of the way. On airport pickups the flight is tracked, so a two-hour delay moves the car rather than costing you a no-show. Thirty minutes of wait time is included from wheels-down.
TCP licensed, commercially insured, W-9 and certificates of insurance on request, ten years of operating history in Los Angeles County. A direct operator with its own fleet, which means one entity is accountable for the vehicle and the driver.
03 — Who books it
Law firms, studios, funds, medical groups and family offices all book the same way. If your pattern is not listed, describe it on the phone — it is almost certainly one we already run.
04 — From enquiry to kerb
One call sets up the bookers, the passengers, the billing reference and the invoice address. After that nobody re-enters a card, and nobody explains the company twice.
Passenger, date, time, from, to. Phone, email or the reservation form — whichever is quicker at the time. We confirm back to the booker in writing, with the figure.
An S-Class for one or two passengers, a full-size SUV where there is luggage or a third person, a van above six. If your booking implies the wrong class we say so before it is held.
Ahead of the pickup the booker and the passenger both receive his name, the vehicle and a direct number. On airport work he is already watching the flight.
On location before the booking, parked where he is not in the picture, and moving only when the passenger appears. No calls from the kerb asking where you are.
Itemised with the date, the passenger, the route and your reference, tolls and airport parking on their own lines. One document at month end, or per booking if your finance team prefers it.
Changes are normal. Move a time, add a stop, swap a passenger — call dispatch and it is done. There is no change fee on account bookings.
We moved from three separate accounts to one line and one monthly invoice. Our finance team stopped chasing receipts, which was the actual problem I was trying to solve.
The part I did not expect: the office knows which of our directors will not travel in a black SUV, and does not send one.
05 — The vehicles
Chosen on head count and luggage rather than on what happens to be free.
The default for one or two passengers. Quiet enough to take a call from the back seat, and the car most of our standing bookings are held in.
Where there is luggage, a third passenger or a long run to Orange County or San Diego. The usual answer for a client collection at LAX.
Seven to fourteen with a luggage bay behind the last row. Offsites, team moves and conference arrivals that would otherwise take three cars.
Ninety-nine vehicles across six classes, so a board day needing six arrivals is a normal booking. The full list is on the fleet page.
06 — Pricing, in the open
Published, unconditional, and the same figure your finance team will see on the invoice.
Booked direct, so no broker margin sits between the quote and the chauffeur — the reasoning is on why book direct.
07 — Questions
Yes. An account gives you a billing reference, a cost centre or matter number on every ride, and one consolidated invoice instead of a card charge per journey. Setting it up takes a phone call and an email address for the invoices — there is no fee and no minimum spend.
That is how most of our corporate work is booked. Assistants, coordinators and travel managers hold the account, and we confirm every detail back to the booker rather than to the passenger unless you tell us otherwise.
Where the schedule allows, yes. Regular passengers are assigned one or two named chauffeurs who learn the preferences — the entrance used, the temperature, whether conversation is welcome — so nothing has to be explained again.
As-directed work is hourly from $85 with a three-hour minimum, and the vehicle stays with the passenger between stops. A single airport transfer is quoted as a set-price run instead, which usually works out cheaper than booking the same journey hourly.
No. There is no surge pricing, no night or weekend premium and no traffic surcharge. A 5am departure from Century City is priced the same way as a midday one, and the quoted figure is what appears on the invoice.
Yes — TCP licensed and commercially insured, with certificates and a W-9 available for procurement or vendor onboarding. We are a direct operator rather than a broker, so the vehicle and the chauffeur are both ours.
08 — Reserve
Dispatch answers around the clock, and the person on the phone is the person assigning the car. Tell us who travels and how you want it billed.
(323) 799-3190Or open an account online · info@rgblacklimo.com · Quotes usually inside the hour