Uber Black Car: Limousine Cars and Ridesharing
Posted by John Smith on May 20th, 2015
People buy cars for all sorts of reasons: For transportation, as a status symbol and as a luxury item. People’s need for all three (transportation, status symbol and a luxury service) has created the category called ridesharing. Ridesharing is essentially hitchhiking on steroids with a framework that allows for safety. Ridesharing also provides an avenue for the rider to get where they are going in style for cheap. For the driver, ridesharing provides an avenue for getting additional income and also allows the utilization of otherwise wasted resources (a car just sitting in the garage). There are a number of Ridesharing companies, the most popular of which is Uber; other companies in this new and emerging market are Lyft, Sidecar, JustShareIt and RideJoy. For the purposes of this article, we shall primarily focus on Uber, and in particular their service – Uber Black.
Uber Black is a service that Uber provides for the customer/rider that loves luxury on demand at an affordable price. The typical Uber Black Caris a Cadillac, Lincoln, BMW, Mercedes or other high end luxury cars and yes you guessed it – they are Black. Uber Black is typically 2 or more times the rate of UberX (another service that Uber provides). To request an Uber Black Car, the customer will have to download the Uber passenger app on their phone (iphone/android) and then activate their account (add credit card information). Once the passenger activates their account, it is pretty intuitive from that point on what the rider will need to do to request an Uber Driver (managed by an Uber Partner).
At this point, you are probably asking who is an Uber Partner? An Uber Partner (for Uber Black) is the owner/manager of the company (livery service company) that has a number of drivers working for him on his/her behalf. An Uber Partner has a partnership [with] Uber and splits revenue 3 ways (Uber Partner, Uber and the Uber Driver).
The 4 primary players discussed previously (Uber Partner, Uber Driver, Uber Passenger, and Uber) are the key players in the Uber Business Model. The Uber business model provides a way for an Uber Partner to compete with Taxi’s and traditional livery companies whilst just staying within most city regulations. If you are trying to grow your transportation business, or even just trying to get into transportation, why pay tens of thousands of dollars on city Taxi Medallions when you can be an Uber Partner and make as much, if not more, money than Taxi company owners. So, grow your business today, and start by getting educated about Uber Black.
