Daily schedule or a car kept all day
Use the row that matches how the car is actually used. Mixing the two produces the wrong quote.
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| Daily car service | Full-day chauffeur | |
|---|---|---|
| What repeats | A scheduled trip, often on set weekdays | The hours you hold the car on one date |
| Typical use | Home to office, office to a standing dinner, school to an activity | Meetings, errands and waiting across one date |
| What you send | Days, both addresses, pickup times, and exceptions | The date, start time, hours and stop list |
| How it is priced | Each trip or reserved block is quoted. No unpublished monthly fee. | Hourly, three-hour minimum, for the hours retained |
| What is not promised | The same chauffeur every morning | A commute product sold as “daily” |
Name the days and the times
A usable daily request names the days, the pickup address, the destination and the time. “Every weekday” still needs the clock: 7:40 from a Brooklyn Heights building to a Midtown office is a different job from a car that might be called sometime in the morning.
Include the return if there is one. A morning only, a morning and a 6:30 return, or three days a week rather than five, should be three different requests. Holidays, remote days and weeks you are away belong in the note so the schedule is not billed or dispatched for an empty pickup.
Transfers, short waits and the hourly minimum
Most daily office runs are point-to-point. The car picks up and drops off. It does not sit outside the office all day. If you need ten minutes at a school or a lobby, say so. If you need the car through a series of stops, that day is hourly and the three-hour minimum applies.
Published starting hourly rates, when a day does need the car held, are $120 for a sedan, $150 for an SUV, $175 for an S-Class and $200 for a Sprinter. A repeating transfer is quoted from the addresses. Do not multiply an hourly rate by a guessed commute to invent a weekly price.
Who the service is for
Companies use daily car service for an executive who has a standing office arrival, or for a small set of people with the same route. Families use it for a repeating school or activity ride. The booking is a chauffeur and a service vehicle.
If several employees have different home addresses, they are several schedules. Putting them in one “daily van” only works when they truly share the pickup and the time. Otherwise price the cars separately.
What confirmation can and cannot say
Ask which days can be accepted, which vehicle class is reserved, and how a late cancel or a changed pickup time is handled. The confirmation should cover the dates you listed, not a rolling promise.
The same chauffeur is not guaranteed from day to day. A month of the same pattern is a further request, still priced from the trips you list. For a single date where the car stays with you, book full-day chauffeur service.
Questions before booking
Is daily car service an eight-hour booking?
No. Daily means a repeating scheduled trip. Keeping the car for a block of hours on one date is full-day or hourly service, and the hourly minimum is three hours.
Can I book only the morning ride?
Yes, if that is the pattern. State the days and the pickup time. Add the evening return only if you want it scheduled too.
Do I get the same driver every day?
No. Each day is dispatched from the confirmed schedule. Ask what can be arranged, and do not treat a particular chauffeur as part of the service.
How is a repeating ride priced?
From the addresses, vehicle class and whether the car is released after drop-off. There is no weekly package price. Hourly rates apply only when you keep the car.
What if the office day changes?
Send the exception before the pickup time you already agreed. A standing schedule does not update itself when someone works from home.