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How much would you pay...

dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
For a designated driver service? A driver picks you and your car up at your location & drives you and your car home?
I know we have a few here who imbibe [:D]
Would you use a service like this?
Thanks!
Don
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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  • Colonel PlinkColonel Plink Member Posts: 16,460
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dongizmo
    For a designated driver service? A driver picks you and your car up at your location & drives you and your car home?
    I know we have a few here who imbibe [:D]
    Would you use a service like this?
    Thanks!
    Don


    Hell, I'd BE a service like that! I haven't had a drink in this Century!
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,036 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do not imbibe. Don
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    less than it would take to call a cab to get home and a cab to get back to my car the next day.

    its convenient, but no so much so as to be worth exorbitant fees.
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I already have one of those it's called my wife. The thing is I worry more about her smashing up my SUV then if I drove it after a few drinks.
    But in reality we have some of those in town here that operate on a donation basis.
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  • BoskettiBosketti Member Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It would be cheaper to set up as a round trip service, returning you to your car the next day, than it would be to set up to either tow or have a second driver in the evening. Labor cost and insurance should be less.
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by KEVD18
    less than it would take to call a cab to get home and a cab to get back to my car the next day.

    its convenient, but no so much so as to be worth exorbitant fees.

    What is exorbitant?
    The convenience of having your car in your drive in the morning when you are going to work is worth a premium I think...

    quote:Originally posted by Bosketti
    It would be cheaper to set up as a round trip service, returning you to your car the next day, than it would be to set up to either tow or have a second driver in the evening. Labor cost and insurance should be less.

    Not really, your driving the drinker & their car (in their car) with a chase car following you.
    Don
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dennisnielsen
    Depends on where you are parked Kev,a broken car window aint' cheap.

    Broken window, looted car, or just plain old stolen car [:0]
    Don
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by armilite
    I already have one of those it's called my wife. The thing is I worry more about her smashing up my SUV then if I drove it after a few drinks.
    But in reality we have some of those in town here that operate on a donation basis.

    I have been looking at some of the ones we have around here, prices run from $50.00 & up for the first 5 miles, with a per mile surcharge after that...+ extras for other drop offs....
    Don
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  • toolmaniamtoolmaniam Member Posts: 3,213
    edited November -1
    Have a friend who when gets too polluted calls a tow truck. Gets a DD ride home and his car is there in the morning. The towing service he uses a lot gives him frequent flyer/tower miles discount.[8D]
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  • evileye fleagalevileye fleagal Member Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i known folks call the roll back, 75 bucks around here.
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by evileye fleagal
    i known folks call the roll back, 75 bucks around here.

    I am thinking about starting at $45.00 5 mile radius $5.00 a head for extra drops, $2.00 per mile over 5 miles...
    I have 4 bars within about a 1/2 mile of my home, 2 of them, a Hooters and a popular long time bar I can see from my up stairs windows [;)]
    Don
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,518 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Buy a car that has no carpet , vinyl floor and vinyl seats. When the drunks get done getting sick in the car, just hose it out.
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  • Blade SlingerBlade Slinger Member Posts: 5,891
    edited November -1
    $5.00 in the city, might have to wait a half hour, humm two more beers please, $10.00 any place in the county per person. Get caught in this county DWI, fines, schoooling $5.000 easy. MADD fixed it good here.[;)]
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    Buy a car that has no carpet , vinyl floor and vinyl seats. When the drunks get done getting sick in the car, just hose it out.

    The beauty of it is you drive the drunks in their car, then they can puke all they want [;)]
    Don
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,518 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well how do you get back after taking the drunk home in their car?
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  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    plain and simple. no
    IF and i say IF that occasion, ever occurred i have friends i could call.
    as far as worring about the car, i dont go to places like that
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    Well how do you get back after taking the drunk home in their car?
    Have a follow car... I figure keep it in a 5 mile radius, it should take no more than 20-30 min per... I have not got the wife sold on it yet, she is laid off, so I am looking to put her to work [;)]
    Don
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shouldn't cost you much to give it a try.

    Only thing I can see as being a PIA is the insurance issue. First off you are operating a business that involves driving another persons vehicle. Who covers that?

    What if you drive home a drunk with no insurance, or minimal insurance in his/her vehicle, and have an accident in route?

    I would certainly be incorporated, or an LLC if you decide to do this. Also I would spend a bit of time with a business attorney to see all of the angles where you can be at risk for being sued.

    NOTHING is simple anymore.[;)]
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    back in the late 80's i drove 10 guys around in a van to various bars, and other venues, for a bachelor party in NY. the van belonged to a police detective who knew all the good entertainment spots.[;)]
    I was part of the celebration, except for the booze.
    22 hours later, they gave me the $50 we agreed on.
    what a great party![:D]


    tom
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
    Shouldn't cost you much to give it a try.

    Only thing I can see as being a PIA is the insurance issue. First off you are operating a business that involves driving another persons vehicle. Who covers that?

    What if you drive home a drunk with no insurance, or minimal insurance in his/her vehicle, and have an accident in route?

    I would certainly be incorporated, or an LLC if you decide to do this. Also I would spend a bit of time with a business attorney to see all of the angles where you can be at risk for being sued.

    NOTHING is simple anymore.[;)]

    Yep.
    The insurance is the biggest issue as far as I can tell, all we should need are chauffeurs licenses, which we already have...
    Don
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    I rarely imbibe outside my abode.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,518 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like a decent service but way too many liabilities. Driving someone's car ( you may not be covered in an accident if not on policy )

    Dealing with drunks.. not a good thing. They can't sign any liability releases or anything cause they are drunk..not knowing what they are doing. Taking a risk the drunk has drugs on them.. then everyone in the car gets arrested. If stopped the drunk can still be arrested for public intox?

    I would do a limo service with the chauffeurs license. Get a big ol' stretch limo and do weddings, trips to big cities, special occasions or whatever. Write the vehicle off as a tax expense.
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