If you are looking to set up a business offering chauffeur driven cars or limousine for hire, it is essential that you understand the definition of ‘Hire and Reward’. With the prevelance of companies offering a stretched limousine on a “self-drive hire” basis, in order that more than 8 passengers can be carried it is also a useful to the potential hirer.
The UK based Transport Office have provided the following definition;
“Hire or reward is any sort of payment which gives a person a right to be carried on a vehicle regardless of whether a profit is made or not. The payment may be made by the person himself, or on his behalf and may be a direct payment (such as a fare or other payment made directly in respect of the journey) or an indirect payment (such as a membership subscription to a club, payment for a bed in a hotel, school fees or payment for concert tickets). Although such indirect payments are usually made in respect of other services (rather than for transport) they are nonetheless viewed by the courts as hire or reward because anyone who had not made the payment would have no right to be carried.”
Cars for Stars is a licensed operator of chauffeur cars and limousines in the UK and also operates a franchised limousine hire business.
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