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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Towne Livery Debuts Lincoln Continental In Theme Video

Roaring 20s dude David Bastian of Towne Livery with an actress on the set. BUFFALO, N.Y. — National livery vehicle dealer David Bastian got to indulge in some silent-film era stardom this week shooting a video touting the 2017 Lincoln Continental set to debut to the limousine industry Feb. 29 at the International LCT Show in Las Vegas, Nev.

Bastian, commercial sales manager of Towne Livery in Orchard Park, N.Y., in recent years has produced several videos promoting either LCT events or vehicles, or both. In this latest clip, he uses the Roaring 20s / Great Gatsby theme of the annual LCT Awards Celebration to be held Tuesday, March 1 at the Mandalay Bay.

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Bastian worked with a professional production comapny, Galora creative and multimedia productions, owned and run by director Peter McGennis. The video took 10 hours to shoot on Feb. 8 and 9 at three key Buffalo area locations: The Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum, which has 1920s era Frank Lloyd Wright-designed filling station used in the video, the Adam Mickiewicz Library and the Buffalo Auto Show Feb. 9, which had a white 2017 Lincoln-Continental on display.

Bastian was interviewed in a WIVB-TV report Tuesday night in Buffalo about the Show during which he demonstrated the legroom in the rear seat of the Lincoln Continental on display. The Lincoln-Continental has a longer wheelbase and a few more inches of rear seat legroom when compared to the Lincoln MKS sedan, which many operators have put into fleets to complement the Lincoln MKT Town Car, a crossover model.

“It feels very similar to an MKT in legroom,” Bastian told LCT. “It’s more than sufficient.”

Large chauffeur teddy bear with the Lincoln Continental. International LCT Show attendees can purchase large or small chauffeur bears as part of a fundraiser for the NLA's Harold Berkman Memorial Fund. Ford/Lincoln Limousine & Livery Vehicles will officially debut the new model to the limousine industry on Monday, Feb. 29 at 6 p.m. on the exhibit floor of the International LCT Show at the Mandalay Bay convention center. Towne Livery‘s booth will be nearby at No. 610.

Bastian is giving away 50 small chauffeur teddy bears he purchased for $1,250, which will be donated to the Harold Berkman Memorial Fund, the philanthropic arm of the National Limousine Association. Ford/Lincoln will be selling the bears at their exhibit booth/display.

Related LCT photo gallery: Lincoln Continental Video Set Stills Here

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Towne Livery Outtakes From Lincoln-Continental Video Shoot

The national livery vehicle dealer filmed a Roaring 20s-themed promotional video around Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 8-9 for the debut of the 2017 Lincoln-Continental Feb. 29 to March 2 at the International LCT Show in Las Vegas, Nev. VIDEO CLIP HERE

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Towne Livery Films Old-Time Lincoln-Continental Show Clip

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LCT’s Jim Luff To Help Lead Operator Roundtable Groups

Operator, business owner, community supporter, and LCT contributing editor/writer Jim Luff will bring his 25 years of industry expertise to Driving Results' operator roundtable peer groups. As Driving Results expands the education and services offered to its industry groups, veteran operator Jim Luff will provide valuable insight from his 25 years of industry experience.

The two owners groups, Spinning Wheels, and the newly created Wheels in Motion, will benefit from the knowledge he brings to the table in the quest to help members successfully grow their businesses to the next level. Members are willing to step outside the box and do things differently.

Jim has always operated outside of the box, getting brand new cars without paying for them, eliminating mandatory gratuities and refusing to wait 60-days for big networks to pay him – without losing their business.

Jim will co-present with Driving Results Managing Partner Arthur Messina at an upcoming affiliate group meeting in Las Vegas immediately following the International LCT Show. All of the groups meet three times a year where they hold discussions on customer service, technology, operations and other industry related challenges. These focus groups are limited to 20 people who are geographically separated from each other and truly desire to grow their business.

Jim Luff is well known in the ground transportation industry as an operator, a contributing editor for LCT Magazine and a consultant to many small operators across the nation. He joined the industry in 1990 as a private chauffeur and in 1993 began a 23-year career as the CEO and managing partner of Limousine Scene in Bakersfield, Calif.

During that time, he grew the business from a four-car operation with eight employees to a 32-vehicle operation with 82 employees. Along the way, Jim picked up accounts like Chevron, Shell Oil, Dole Fresh Fruit and other Fortune 500 companies. He forged partnerships with every local music venue and promoter in the area along with every major hotel, every travel agent and funeral director and more importantly, through civic involvement he made friends with the media, politicians and the business community helping grow the business to a 24/7 household name operation.

Jim has been the recipient of many community awards such as Humanitarian of The Year, Lancer’s Outstanding Safety Award as well as receiving the coveted LCT Operator of the Year Award. He recently retired from the daily operations of the company but remains involved in the company.

Source: Driving Results press release

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Driving Results is an elite team of seasoned business professionals with the skills, tools and deep industry knowledge to help you take your business to the next level. They offer you high value training and development programs through their educational groups, Spinning Wheels, Wheels in Motion, Going Global and Global Partners. Their commitment to their clients is to get them from where they are, to where they want to be, one milestone at a time.

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Blacklane Chauffeured App Alights Las Vegas

BERLIN – Blacklane, an app-based service that connects passengers with the spare capacities of licensed, regulated and insured professional chauffeurs and drivers, entered the Las Vegas, Nev., market Feb. 8.

Berlin-based Blacklane, now in 180+ cities worldwide, offers the following:

Transparent rates: Travelers see their fixed, all-inclusive fares before they book. That means there are no extra taxes, fees or tips. Blacklane’s rates never surge.
Commercially licensed and insured drivers and vehicles: Blacklane only partners with companies that possess all required permits and operating licenses.
Business- and first-class vehicles: Such as the Lincoln MKT Town Car, Mercedes S-Class and Chevrolet Suburban.
Guaranteed rides: Customers book one-way and hourly rides one hour to months ahead of time.
High service: Blacklane automatically adjusts airport pickups when arrival times change, and all airport pickups include one hour of driver wait time. Drivers meet and greet passengers in McCarran Airport’s baggage claim. Travelers also receive text and emailed driver contact information an hour before pickup. Customers who need help can contact Blacklane’s multilingual 24/7 team by phone, email or social media.

In 2015, 5.7 million business travelers attended 22,100 Las Vegas conventions, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. That is up about 10% from 5.2 million people in 2014.

“There is no place like Las Vegas for business and leisure travel,” said Jens Wohltorf, CEO and co-founder of Blacklane, in a press release. “Until now, it was too difficult and expensive to book your black car ride in advance. Blacklane closes the missing link in the travel chain with guaranteed, high-quality rides between airports, hotels and convention centers.”

Blacklane guarantees low and all-inclusive fixed rates at the time of the booking with a unique pricing and dispatching algorithm. The company provides a consistently high global standard by combining multilingual 24/7 customer care with real-time service control for tens of thousands of quality vehicles.

Source: Blacklane press release