Business Travelers On Board With Luxury Motorcoaches

A new upscale bus service promises to help business travelers pass the miles between Texas’ major cities in relative comfort without sacrificing productivity.

Shofur, an Atlanta-based charter carrier, is now offering 12 daily trips across the state. The company touts its onboard Wi-Fi service and the ease of using its app to order ticket, track individual buses and even rate drivers just as they would with a ride-sharing app. The first buses pulled out of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Waco on Monday.

Houston Chronicle article here

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Dav El | BostonCoach Hosts Limo Elite At Affiliate Meeting

BOSTON — Dav El│ BostonCoach Transportation Network hosted its annual Affiliate Partner Meeting Aug. 9-10 at the World Trade Center in Boston that drew hundreds of operators considered among the highest industry performers.

The two-day conference featured world-renowned speakers and a record-breaking attendance.

The event kicked off with celebrated speakers including Casey Sherman, a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist motivating the attendees on reliance and persistence. Arthur Bernard, an attorney at Travaglini, Eisenberg & Kiley, a local lobbying firm, discussed the strategy and execution of the TNC bill that was recently passed in the Mass legislature. Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and a columnist, rounded out the special speakers and presented Dav El│BostonCoach Transportation Network CEO Scott Solombrino with a special award.

Client panels featuring Dav El BostonCoach affiliate operators included topics such as client satisfaction, top interests of clients and what makes a difference in the industry.

The conference concluded with a special awards dinner at the JFK Library which featured a special appearance by Boston comedian Steve Sweeney. The top honor, 2016 True Partner of the Year Award, was awarded to Avanti Transportation of Houston, Texas, owned by Erich Reindl. Avanti has been a long standing affiliate partner of Dav El | BostonCoach, supporting all of its brands for over 10 years.

Further top honors included:

• 2016 International Partner of the Year: United Limousines, Germany
• 2016 Farm-Out Partner of the Year: Cabot Limousine, New York
• 2016 Best VIP Service Performance: A Limousine Associates, Cincinnati 
• 2016 Best Chauffeur Details compliance: DLA Executive Limousine, New York

“I am so proud of my team for putting on a fabulous conference and extremely grateful to all the affiliates that attended,” Solombrino said. “Every year the Affiliate Conference continues to grow and our attendees are already excited for next year.”

About Dav El│BostonCoach
Dav El│BostonCoach is the largest privately owned chauffeured transportation company in the world. It offers executive ground transportation services, including deluxe limousines, luxury sedans, executive vans and buses, and a professional and knowledgeable staff of trained chauffeurs, reservations agents and travel managers. Serving business travelers for over three decades, Dav El│BostonCoach operates in more than 500 metro markets, across six continents. It ranked No. 1 on the LCT 50 Largest Fleets List with 2,180 company owned or leased vehicles. The network can access up to 25,000 vehicles worldwide.

Source: Dav El│BostonCoach press release

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Number Crunching Operators Pay It Forward

DENVER, Col. -– Driving Results, a consulting group for the industry, recently held an owners group meeting in Denver. Instead of staying confined to hotel meeting rooms, 14 members of the Wheels in Motion group fanned out across downtown Denver to perform random acts of kindness upon the citizens of Denver.

The group randomly showed up at a soup house, washed dishes and worked the food line. They came upon a lady who had locked herself out of her car and they helped her unlock it. They paid for a young woman’s groceries when her debit card declined as she and her young son purchased groceries. The group handed out flowers to people they passed as well as Oreo cookies, bottles of water and fresh fruit from the hotel lobby where the group stayed.

The random acts of kindness were part of a team building exercise intended to measure leadership, use of resources, creative thinking and cash management as each team was given cash and expected to achieve maximum value with cash provided. Each interaction was documented in a video and presented later in a class setting. The real winners were the people of Denver who received a kind gesture from total strangers from the limousine industry.

Wheels In Motion meets three times a year in different cities for the purpose of learning, round table discussions, goal setting for the next quarter, and sharing creative ideas with each other about problems, trends and situations in the industry. Some members of the group entered into a weight loss challenge and each member put up $100 betting they could lose the most weight by November. Eleven members of the group did a weigh in during a site visit at Town & Country Limousine of Denver and will be weighed in when the group meets again. The weight loss winner will get $1,000 for their efforts and the runner up gets $100.

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Source: Driving Results press release

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Google Gets Into On-Demand Carpool Market

The Wall Street Journal headline sounds ominous: “Google Takes on Uber With New Ride-Share Service.” But the reality is less dramatic. Google — one of Uber’s early investors — isn’t actually launching a full-fledged Uber rival. Not today, at least.

What is happening: Waze, the crowdsourced mapping and navigation app that Google acquired in 2013, is expanding its ride-sharing pilot in San Francisco, according to the WSJ report. The service lets drivers pick up passengers who are traveling in the same direction, or are headed to a similar destination, in exchange for payment.

Recode.net article here

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Flexjet Expands Aviation Footprint

Founded in 1995, Flexjet offers fractional private jet ownership and leasing options for those who want to take to the skies at a moment’s notice. The company is expanding its aviation footprint by taking deliveries of Embraer’s Legacy 450 business jet, adding five to the Flexjet fleet by year’s end.

The midsize business jet, which features a 6-foot-tall cabin and sound-reducing design elements, has been recently FAA-approved for nonstop coast-to-coast flights and other extended-range routes, such as Los Angeles to Honolulu.

Robb Report article here

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