Nothing is photographed
Phones stay in the door pocket. No image of the address, the aircraft, the gate, the venue or the person in the back — and no exception for a picture taken privately and never shown to anyone.
Service 14
Arriving without an audience.
A dark car with nothing written on it, a chauffeur working under a signed non-disclosure agreement, and one dispatcher who holds the whole itinerary. Discretion here is a list of instructions rather than an adjective.
01 — The premise
Discretion is an operating procedure, not a promise on a website.
Every chauffeur company in this city describes itself as discreet, and almost none of them will say what the word obliges them to do. So it is written out below: what a chauffeur may not do, what the car may not carry, who here learns your name, and what becomes of the itinerary after the last drop. If a line could not be handed to a dispatcher as an instruction, it is not on the page.
The booking is ordinary. The handling is not. Mechanically this is the same job as any other transfer or hourly hire — a vehicle, a chauffeur, a time and a route. What changes is everything around it: which car goes out, how the chauffeur behaves at a kerb, how much of the schedule any one person is given, and how little of it survives afterwards.
Nobody is famous to us. Recognition is the failure. A chauffeur who greets someone by a title, or mentions who sat in that seat last week, has already broken the arrangement — and would have broken it just as thoroughly by asking for a photograph. The instruction is blunt: drive, hold the door, say only what you were asked to say.
Most of this work is not a red carpet. It is a lawyer's office in Century City, an appointment nobody needs to hear about, a house viewing that would move the asking price if it were discussed, a six o'clock departure from Van Nuys. The same instructions cover all of it, and they are not an extra line on the quote.
Ask dispatch for a silent pickup and the chauffeur will not ring a bell, knock, or walk up to a door. You get one text saying the car is in position, and nothing further happens until you come out.
Evenings where the arrival is meant to be seen are luxury car service. Touring parties, artists and crews moving between venues are handled on artist and talent transport, and a car held for a whole afternoon is hourly and as-directed work.
02 — Clause by clause
What the word obliges us to do, line by line.
Eight clauses, each one short enough for a dispatcher to read down a telephone. None of them is a preference.
- The agreement itself
- Chauffeurs sign a non-disclosure agreement before they take work. Names, addresses, telephone numbers, who was travelling with whom and anything said in the cabin all sit under it. It is the only privacy commitment on this site that rests on a signature rather than a policy, which is why the rest of this list is written to match it.
- No photographs
- No pictures of the passenger, the luggage, the house, the gate, the venue, or the car with anyone in it. That includes the kind of photograph somebody takes for their own record and never intends to show a soul. The picture not existing is the entire safeguard.
- Nothing posted anywhere
- No job reaches social media, a group chat or a driver forum, and nobody here confirms or denies that a particular person travelled with us. Our own accounts show vehicles standing on their own, which is all they will ever show.
- No names where they carry
- The chauffeur does not greet anyone by surname or title in a lobby, a terminal or a forecourt where the next person along can hear it. On a meet-and-greet the board carries whatever text you give us: initials, a first name, a word that means nothing to anybody else.
- No conversation unless you begin it
- Good morning, a check of the destination, then quiet. No radio unless you ask for it, no questions about your day, and no attempt to fill a silence that was not a problem. Start a conversation and you will get a proper one; say nothing and nothing is expected of you.
- No recognising anyone
- Chauffeurs do not mention who else they have driven, do not ask for a signature or a photograph, and do not treat a passenger as anything other than a passenger with an appointment to keep.
- One point of contact
- A single dispatcher owns the booking for its whole length, including overnight. You are not repeating a schedule to a night shift, and there is no group of people each holding a fragment of it. One number reaches that desk: (323) 799-3190.
- What happens afterwards
- The itinerary stops being live the moment the job closes. An address stays on file because a returning booking needs it; it is not sold, shared, or used to work out who you are. What is kept and for how long is set out in the privacy policy.
Two things we do not do, so the eight above stay believable. We are not a security company: there is no protection detail, no advance sweep and no armoured vehicle. And we do not vet chauffeurs beyond the non-disclosure agreement they sign. If a day genuinely needs protection it needs a firm that does that work, and we are content to drive alongside one.
03 — Standing instructions
Six instructions the chauffeur is already working to before the car leaves the yard.
Identical on a two-mile hotel transfer and on a fourteen-hour day. Nobody has to ask for them.
Nothing is posted
No job appears on a feed, in a group chat or on a forum, and nobody here answers a question about who travelled with us. Our own accounts show cars parked on their own, which is the whole of what they show.
No name in a lobby
Greetings happen at a normal speaking volume and use as little information as they can. In a forecourt, a terminal or a lift, nothing the chauffeur says identifies you to the people standing within earshot.
Quiet unless you speak first
The destination is confirmed once, and then the front of the car leaves the back of it alone. If you take a call, the chauffeur behaves as though the cabin were empty.
The car says nothing about itself
Dark paint, no livery, no roof sign, no lettering on the glass, no branded frame around the plate. It is meant to read as somebody's own vehicle, because a car that announces a service also announces that a service was hired.
One dispatcher, first call to last drop
The person who takes the booking runs it until it closes, overnight included. You never explain a schedule twice, and there is no second office holding half of it.
04 — The car it usually goes out in
Six seats, a long tail, and nothing written on it.
Most of this work leaves in the extended Escalade. It is close to the least interesting vehicle on any street in Los Angeles, which is exactly the argument for it.
Cadillac Escalade ESV
Six passengers, and the extended body means six people travel with real luggage rather than a negotiation about what rides on a lap. The height matters more than it sounds: leaving the car is a step down instead of a climb out, which is the difference between an exit and a photograph of an exit.
On a Los Angeles street it is also invisible. Thousands of them run between the hillsides and the studio lots every day of the week. A dark ESV with plain glass and no badge frame draws no attention at all, which is more than any stretch vehicle has ever managed.
6 passengers
Extended cargo bay
No livery of any kind
Travelling alone, a sedan is quieter and easier to park close to a door — the S-Class takes three. A Suburban takes seven and a Sprinter fourteen when a party has to move as one. Capacities for every class sit on the fleet page, and larger SUV bookings are luxury SUV service.
The car was where it was supposed to be, the chauffeur said nothing at all, and there is no photograph of any of it anywhere. That is the entire review.
WithheldArtist management, Los Angeles
05 — How a quiet run is built
Most of the work happens before you get in.
01
The advance run
Ask for it and the chauffeur drives the address before the day: which gate actually opens, where a car can stand without blocking a lane, whether the forecourt has one entrance or three, and how long the last quarter mile takes at that hour rather than at noon. It is added as extra time on the same job, and on a difficult pickup it is the single most useful thing you can buy. No photographs are taken on an advance run either.
Add one when you reserve Add an advance run when you reserve02
One schedule, one holder
Dispatch keeps the itinerary and hands out only what each leg requires. A chauffeur is given an address, a time and a name to expect.
Speak to dispatch Speak to dispatch on (323) 799-319003
Early, and out of the way
In position before the booked minute, parked where it is not conspicuous, engine off. Nobody stands on a pavement holding a sign unless you asked for one.
Hold the car by the hour Hourly and as-directed work04
Your people set the route
If you travel with your own security or a tour manager, they choose the door, the timing and the order of the vehicles, and that is what happens. We do not argue with it and we do not supply it.
Artist and talent work Artist and talent transport05
Nothing left in the cabin
Seats and pockets are cleared between passengers: chargers, papers, a jacket over a headrest. Anything found is logged with dispatch and returned to you, and mentioned to nobody else.
What we keep on file What we keep on file, and whyWhat it costs. Hourly work starts from $85 per hour and is the usual shape here, because most discreet days involve keeping a car rather than buying a single leg. A straight airport run can be cheaper as a set price: Beverly Hills, Santa Monica or Hollywood to LAX from $125, Malibu, Newport Beach and Irvine from $150, LAX to San Diego from $525. Each figure is a starting point for one specific journey and is confirmed in writing before we accept the booking.
What moves it. The class of vehicle, whether the car is held or released between stops, an advance run, and the number of hours on the diary. Tolls and venue parking are passed through at cost and shown as themselves. Gratuity is never added silently. An LAX arrival carries thirty complimentary minutes from the moment the aircraft lands; any other allowance, and what happens once it runs out, is stated on your confirmation.
06 — Questions
What people ask before the first quiet booking.
Six standing instructions the chauffeur works to: nothing is photographed, nothing is posted, no name is used where it can be overheard, the cabin stays quiet unless you speak first, the car carries no livery, and one dispatcher holds the booking from first call to last drop. Every chauffeur signs a non-disclosure agreement before taking work.
No. There is no livery, no roof sign, no lettering on the glass and no branded frame around the plate. The cars are dark, current and ordinary looking, which is the point of them. A name board at an airport is something you ask for rather than something we do by default.
Yes. Ask for an advance run and the chauffeur drives the address ahead of the booking to see which gate opens, where a vehicle can stand without blocking a lane, and how long the last quarter mile takes at that hour. It is booked as extra time on the same job.
No. We drive, and that is the whole of it. There is no protection detail, no armoured vehicle and no vetting of chauffeurs beyond the non-disclosure agreement they sign. If you travel with your own people, dispatch takes the door, the timing and the order of vehicles from them and follows it.
Hourly work starts from $85 per hour, which is the usual shape for a day that involves holding a car. A single airport leg may be cheaper as a set-price run: Beverly Hills, Santa Monica or Hollywood to LAX from $125, Malibu, Newport Beach and Irvine from $150, LAX to San Diego from $525. Every figure is confirmed in writing before the booking is accepted.
The person who takes the reservation, the dispatcher running the day, and the chauffeur driving it. Nobody else is told, and the chauffeur is given only what the leg needs: an address, a time and a name to expect. What we keep on file afterwards, and why, is set out in the privacy policy.
Anything not covered here can go to dispatch on (323) 799-3190 at any hour, or to info@rgblacklimo.com. How quotations, waiting and cancellations work is set out in the terms and conditions.
07 — Reserve
Tell one person the plan. Nobody else needs it.
Reserve online with as much detail as you are comfortable writing down, or give it to a dispatcher once on the telephone. Either way the same desk holds the booking until the last drop.
(323) 799-3190Picked up at any hour, including six o'clock departures out of Van Nuys and late arrivals into LAX.