In today’s busy world for the business and leisure traveler, so many tools have been introduced to make the whole experience easier and better.  However, when it comes to booking a sedan or limousine service, such tools are totally absent.  Many travelers question why?  When such services are needed, consumers must still use the old method of looking up multiple websites and hopefully finding a reputable provider that actually fulfills the promises made on their site.

This writer knows that many travelers question why such a dilemma exists.  The problem has seemed insurmountable and yet the reason is simple.  A full ninety percent of all limousine and sedan service providers are small operations with anywhere from one to twenty vehicles.  In truth there are less than five hundred limousine companies with more than twenty vehicles.  In the United States there are almost thirteen thousand limousine or sedan service providers.  None of these companies are hooked in to a national data base that allows for a one stop shopping experience, like Hotels.com or Kayak or any of the other convenient tools offered to the frequent traveler.

With so many providers and no solution for the traveler, it is at best a hit and miss proposition when it comes to securing these services.  Well, fear not for such a technology is currently in development.  Cheaplimorates.com is a Web 2.0 product that will link thousands of limousine services together in one convenient location.  The travel tool will allow you to go to one website and look at hundreds of companies located in your desired destination city.  You will be able to search through these companies for the one that best suits your needs.  The site will include transparent pricing, customer reviews, a full description of the company including a list of their available inventory and pictures of the vehicle you are booking.

Cheaplimorates.com will become the only tool you will ever need, to make reservations for limousine or sedan service wherever you need to be, whether it is Des Moines, Iowa or Bangkok, Thailand.  This website will give you access to the world and give you the opportunity to “Search, Shop, Book” your transportation needs.  Cheaplimorates.com is revolutionary new technology that will make your ground transportation experience a truly simple and rewarding one.  Come back often for more information.

I find myself sometimes at a loss nowadays. I was brought into the limousine industry quite by accident and as is my want, I took the time to learn the industry inside and out. In my tenure within the industry I have discovered a litany of paradigm that exist amongst limousine providers that boggles the mind.
One of the first of these odd behaviors that I encountered was how some of the providers in industry have resolute beliefs that they will not, cannot and won’t be seen as a commodity. I really found that fascinating, because a commodity is describe as product, goods, trade item or service that is exchanged for monetary gain. So when I came across providers who would devoutly state that they were not going to allow their clients to see them as a commodity, I thought they had really, truly lost their minds. I am sure you can understand my confusion.

I had someone explain to me that within the industry, many providers want to be seen as a value added service and the epitome of ultimate in luxury and achievement. In my multi-faceted career I have worked within industries that exuded exactly that, however, they recognized that they were in fact a marketable commodity and therefore they presented themselves to their clientele as such. The limousine industry has for some reason refused to grasp the basic concepts of economics and the power of supply and demand.
I fear for an industry that believes they can somehow rise above the reality of our current economic slowdown and weather this rapidly oncoming storm of financial disaster and resolutely stand by their old paradigms. Change is not only coming, but it is coming with a vengeance and when it arrives, if you are not on the cutting edge of technology, if you are holding to outdated ideas of this industry, then a lot of operators within the industry are going to fail.
I work daily with a company that is trying to solve the current problems faced by the industry, through a powerful technology that will allow providers to reach out to their clients in real time as never before and to increase their customer base as never before. However, this new technology is only valuable to those within the industries who are looking for higher profits and understand that change is coming and in order to survive, we as an industry must change as well.