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Hourly chauffeur hire and executive transfers priced by vehicle class, booked online

Manchester Corporate Travel runs a Mercedes and Range Rover chauffeur fleet across the North of England, selling both point-to-point transfers and hourly hire — two different pricing models on one booking platform.

  • OperatorManchester Corporate Travel
  • FleetMercedes S/E/V Class, Jet Class MPV, Range Rover Vogue
  • LocationManchester & the North of England, UK
  • SectorChauffeur
  • Website manchestercorporatetravel.com
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Vehicle classes

Mercedes S, E and V Class, Jet Class MPV and Range Rover Vogue, each with its own tariff.

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Pricing models on one platform

Point-to-point transfers and hourly hire, quoted and dispatched side by side.

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Cities and towns served

From Manchester out to Leeds, Liverpool, Chester, Preston and across the North.

The operation

Manchester Corporate Travel operates at the executive end of the market: a fleet of Mercedes-Benz S Class, E Class, V Class and Jet Class MPVs plus Range Rover Vogues, serving corporate executive travel, airport transfers, event transport and hourly hire across Manchester and out to Leeds, Liverpool, Chester, Preston, Bolton, Blackburn, Bradford, Huddersfield, Salford, Stockport and Warrington.

The commercial problem here is that the firm sells two fundamentally different products. A Manchester Airport transfer is a point-to-point job priced between £55 and £160 depending on vehicle and route. A four-hour hire is a block of a chauffeur's day priced from £160 to £275, extending at £45 to £75 per additional hour. Most dispatch systems are built for the first and treat the second as an awkward special case.

Executive work also raises the cost of getting the vehicle wrong. A client who booked an S Class for three passengers and two cases is not going to accept a substitute, and capacity has to be right at the point of booking — a V Class takes seven passengers and six suitcases, an E Class three and two. Discretion and presentation are the product; an apologetic phone call about the car is a lost account.

What TBMS provides

TBMS handles transfer pricing and hourly hire as first-class booking types rather than forcing one through the other. Point-to-point jobs are quoted on the route; hourly hire is quoted on the block with a defined extension rate, and both appear on the same job list for the same drivers and vehicles.

Each vehicle class carries its own tariff and its own passenger and luggage capacity, shown to the client when they book. The right car is specified at the point of sale, so the chauffeur is not the one discovering that a party of five booked an E Class.

Because corporate travel is repeat business, account billing runs through account invoicing rather than per-journey settlement: a company books through the year and receives consolidated invoices, rather than a finance team fielding dozens of individual receipts. Online booking runs 24/7 alongside the phone.

What they use

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