As-Directed Car Service Los Angeles

At a glance

Key facts

Several stops, priced by the clock: iRide360 charges from $75 the hour for a sedan, from $100 for an SUV, anywhere across Los Angeles.
3 hours is as short as a block goes, costing from $225 on a sedan or from $300 on an SUV; 18 hours is as long, and one reservation covers it.
20 miles travel with every hour you book. Beyond the allowance: $1 a sedan mile, $2.50 an SUV mile.
The same chauffeur runs the whole day, whether it closes after 3 hours or after 18.
Tolls, taxes and parking come priced in. Gratuity is yours to set at checkout, and $0 is one of the choices.
Billing opens as you get into the car at your first address, and on an airport start at wheels-down.
A meeting that overruns costs nothing extra. The minute meter a transfer carries is simply absent here.
Dispatch is awake 24 hours. Permit on file: California CPUC charter-party carrier permit TCP 43833-A.
If the day changes before it starts. Changing it is free: online up to 6 hours before pickup, or by phone to dispatch inside 6 hours, and the price moves to match the new trip. Cancelling is free with a full refund 24 hours or more before pickup; inside 24 hours it is non-refundable.
Three hours ahead is the minimum the booking engine accepts. Nearer than that is a phone call to (833) 743-3360 rather than a refusal: dispatch arranges what it can.

At a glance

An as-directed day, in nine lines

Two numbers, a 3-hour floor, 20 miles an hour and nothing running on a meter — the commercial shape of a day you direct while it happens.

What you buy	Hours, not a route. The itinerary can still be unwritten when you reserve.
Rate	Sedan $75 the hour, SUV $100 — rates for special events and holidays may be different from the standard hourly rate, shown up front
Floor and ceiling	3 hours at the bottom, 18 at the top, one reservation
Mileage	20 miles travel with every hour; beyond that, $1 a sedan mile, $2.50 an SUV mile
Priced in	Tolls, taxes, meters, garages, valets. Only a venue's own entry pass sits outside
Gratuity	Four presets, a custom figure, or $0. Nothing is ever added for you
Clock	Opens at your first pickup; at an airport, at wheels-down
Waiting	Never billed. A meeting that runs long costs you minutes, not money
Geography	Same-city by design: hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city — beyond it, a day collects added miles plus added hours

Published rates

How much does as-directed car service cost in Los Angeles?

Licensed by the California PUC under TCP 43833-A and dispatching from El Segundo beside LAX, iRide360 publishes two numbers for a day it does not plan. Sedan pricing starts from $75 the hour; the SUV, from $100. 3 hours is the smallest block. Nothing in that moves for traffic, for rush hour or for a Saturday: surge pricing does not exist here, nor a peak or night uplift, nor a weekend rate. Rates for special events and holidays may be different from the standard hourly rate, and that number too is quoted whole in advance.

Three sedan hours is from $225; eight SUV hours from $800. Every line below is already the total.

Booking length	Executive sedan · from $75/hr	Luxury SUV · from $100/hr	Driving included
3 hours, the floor	from $225	from $300	20 miles an hour
A 5-hour block	from $375	from $500	20 miles an hour
An 8-hour block	from $600	from $800	20 miles an hour
A 10-hour block	from $750	from $1,000	20 miles an hour

Totals are the standard rate multiplied out. Tolls and taxes in, gratuity optional, 20 miles for every hour of the booking, a 3-hour floor and an 18-hour ceiling. 6 or more people ride in two cars on the one reservation, each at the same rate. Special-event and holiday dates are priced separately and shown before you commit.

What the hourly rate includes

The car and its chauffeur, yours for the entire block.
Stops without number. They are not counted and not charged.
All waiting, with no minute ever metered.
Twenty road miles for each hour reserved.
Tolls, taxes and parking — outside it sits only the entry pass a venue sells itself.
Fiji bottled water, complimentary.
Free onboard Wi-Fi.
Phone chargers.
Anything else arranged up front.

What is not included

Gratuity — yours to choose at checkout.
Time past the block — rounded up to the next half hour.
Miles past the allowance — $1 a sedan mile, $2.50 an SUV mile.
Meet-and-greet inside the terminal — $25, added when you reserve. Curbside collection is free.
A venue entry pass — bought by you, wherever a venue sells one.
Child seats — rear-facing, forward-facing or booster, $25 each, fitted before arrival.
Pets — $25.

The definition

As-directed means the itinerary is yours, on the day

Booked by the clock, directed by you: the car and the chauffeur belong to your block of time, and where they go gets decided as the day unfolds. A stop added at eleven and a cancellation at two change nothing about what you pay. Time was the thing reserved, not a line on a map.

As-directed, hourly, charter — one booking under three names

The chauffeur trade says as-directed, because the passenger directs. Dispatchers and price lists say hourly, because that is the unit sold. Regulators say charter: in California this is charter-party carriage, authorized by the CPUC and identified by a TCP number, and iRide360's is TCP 43833-A. A firm quoting you all three is quoting one thing.

When a day of stops beats booking each leg

Order three separate transfers for a day of three meetings and you have bought three arrivals and nothing in between. The second meeting slips 25 minutes and the third car has gone. A block absorbs that: the same vehicle is outside, the laptop bag never leaves the back seat, and the overrun spends minutes of time you already own.

A day with one destination and a known finish is still cheaper bought as a transfer. Book as-directed car service in Los Angeles for the opposite shape — several addresses, real dead time between them, a last appointment nobody can time. The hub at /hourly-service sets the two out side by side.

How to brief a day you cannot fully plan

Three things are worth sending ahead, and none of them is a finished itinerary: the first address and the time you want to be moving, a rough shape for the morning, and who else is riding. Everything after that can arrive by text while the day runs.

What a chauffeur genuinely cannot absorb at short notice is a child seat, a sixth passenger or an animal, because each of those is a vehicle decision rather than a routing one. Flag them at the point of reserving and the rest of the day stays improvisable.

As-directed means the itinerary is yours, on the day

The buyer's checks

Five answers to get before you hand over a moving day

Any chauffeur company can be asked these. iRide360's answers are below in full, with the costly mistake last.

Does waiting between appointments cost anything?

Not a cent, anywhere inside the block. The chauffeur sits outside while a meeting goes long, idles in a forecourt through an unhurried lunch, stays put while you take a call in the lobby. No per-stop fee, no limit on how many addresses a day holds, no minute counter anywhere. The hours exist to be waited through.

This is where an hourly block and a transfer priced per trip genuinely part company, and the gap is money. A transfer frees the chauffeur at the drop, which forces waiting onto a meter: 60 free minutes after a landing, $1 for each minute beyond, and 15 minutes of grace at any other address. An hourly booking imports none of that. The time is already on your ticket.

Is the driving capped, and what does an extra mile cost?

A cap applies and iRide360 prints it: 20 miles for every hour on the booking. A printed number can be held against the day you are actually planning, which a word like "included" cannot.

Past the allowance, overage runs $1 a sedan mile and $2.50 an SUV mile. Both appear here rather than on request, so the day gets costed at the planning stage instead of afterwards.

City days of this shape do not reach the cap. Century City at nine, Downtown at eleven, Culver City after lunch and home by six sits comfortably under. A day assembled from freeway legs is another animal, and the fine print lower down prices one out.

Is a gratuity added on automatically?

No. You set it, at checkout, and nothing is applied on your behalf: presets of 15% and 18%, 20% and 25%, your own number, or $0. It reaches the chauffeur. Worth putting to any operator before you commit, because an automatic fifth on an 8-hour SUV day adds $160 nobody quoted.

Whose problem are tolls and parking?

iRide360's. A block that crosses a toll road comes back without a toll line on it. The garage at stop one, the meter at stop two, the valet at stop three: the chauffeur deals with each and the company pays for it.

Events are the exception. Arenas, stadiums and large venues sell entry passes, and buying one is not something iRide360 does on your behalf. For the car to sit inside the lot, buy a pass alongside the tickets. Otherwise the chauffeur holds nearby and collects you at the gate on a text — the faster exit in any case, since a lot drains slower than the street.

At what moment do the booked hours start?

As you get in. The run out to fetch you is on iRide360, not on your block, and counting stops at the final address, long before the car reaches home.

Open the day at an airport and counting starts at wheels-down — the real one, not the one your ticket promised. Tracking the inbound is part of the reservation, so a late arrival slides the block later instead of swallowing the front of it.

How it works on the day

From the driver's seat

Where the car waits is never your problem to solve. If there is nowhere to stop at the address itself — and in Los Angeles there often is not — the chauffeur finds parking nearby, stays in contact with you, and comes to meet you when you are ready to leave. You do not have to tell us where to wait, you do not have to call a dispatcher to arrange it, and none of the time it takes is charged to you. It is already inside the hours you booked.

Who reserves a block

Three shapes of day that need the car to stay

The searches that land here read like job descriptions rather than journeys: a driver who follows my schedule, a private driver by the hour, a car that waits. Three working days account for most of them.

The selling day with four addresses on it

Breakfast in Santa Monica, two pitches on the Westside, a late add in Culver City, and an afternoon that reshuffles twice. Samples, a pull-up banner and two coats live in the trunk between calls. Nobody repacks a car at each stop and nobody negotiates street parking in a suit.

The visitor whose week you are hosting

A colleague or client flies in, and the itinerary is half yours and half theirs. The block starts at the terminal and runs through the office, the lunch and whatever the afternoon turns into, without anybody on your side volunteering to drive and then sitting in a lot for ninety minutes.

The tour that cannot be timed in advance

Properties, locations, venues, sites. Six addresses are on the list and four of them will take longer than planned. The car stays with the group, the list gets reordered twice, and the day ends where it ends.

The fleet, stated plainly

Two classes, and what happens at 6 people

A third class does not exist, so the pair above is the whole choice. Searches for as-directed limousine service land on the same two: a black sedan or a full-size SUV, privately chauffeured.

No vans, no buses, no stretched vehicles — iRide360 does not run them, and the sentence sits here so nobody burns a phone call establishing the point. A party larger than five travels in more than one car on one reservation, each at the same hourly rate.

Executive sedan — from $75/hour: Black, seating 3 with room for 3 bags. The working default when it is you, or you and one colleague, and a briefcase.
Luxury SUV — from $100/hour: Black, full-size, seating 5 with room for 5 bags. Pick it for a four-person team, for real luggage, or when the day will not finish before dark.

Two classes, and what happens at 6 people

Service area

How far a block can range

The rule is simple enough: hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city — and inside Los Angeles nothing is walled off. Century City, Downtown, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Pasadena, the South Bay, the Valley and the airports are all routine hourly ground, with no stop list required when you reserve. Not naming the stops is the whole reason to book this way.

Leave the city and the day collects added miles plus added hours. It is not refused; Orange County, Ventura County and the Inland Empire all come up. For a single long run out, though, let dispatch cost the day as one transfer rather than a block. That is usually the cheaper paper.

Licensing and trust

What stands behind the booking

Who operates the ride: Your ride is operated by iRide360 or a vetted, licensed affiliate partner
Published numbers: rate, floor, allowance and waiting rule all appear above, rather than behind a quote request.
Partner vetting: Before any partner goes live, we run a background check, verify the driver's license with the DMV, confirm insurance, and review a vehicle inspection report.
Near the airport: an El Segundo base keeps LAX a short run rather than a journey, and the dispatch line is staffed at every hour.
Chauffeurs: Every chauffeur, including our affiliate partners', is screened and background-checked
Insurance: Every iRide360 vehicle carries at least $750,000 in liability insurance
Permit: California CPUC charter-party carrier permit TCP 43833-A

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The city rule

When the day crosses the city line

Hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city. If a day runs outside it, additional charges apply.

Most as-directed days never meet that rule. Four meetings, a lunch and a drop at home leave room inside both the hours and the miles.

It bites on one shape of day only: the day that is really a single long drive. Two meters overrun together — mileage beyond the allowance, at $1 a sedan mile or $2.50 an SUV mile, and the clock, since both legs of the drive sit on your block. Where a long leg out of town is on the plan, ring (833) 743-3360 first: dispatch will price that leg on its own, nearly always the cheaper buy, and will tell you so.

Run the numbers on a long-haul day

Say four sedan hours: from $300, with 80 miles attached. Finish on 250 miles and 170 of them bill at $1 apiece — $170 on top, before any overtime at all. A long run out burns hours as well as miles, so the block generally overruns too, and that time rounds up to the next half hour. Those same 170 miles cost $2.50 apiece on the SUV.

A day of that shape belongs on a transfer quote, not on a 4-hour block.

Side by side

How does as-directed compare with rideshare, a rental car or separate transfers?

Of these four, one leaves car and chauffeur outside while you are inside a meeting, at no extra charge.

	As-directed, by the hour	Rideshare, trip by trip	Rental car	Separate one-way transfers
What you book	A block of hours	Each leg, when you need it	A car for a day	One trip at a time
Price certainty	From $75 or $100 an hour, known before you start	Varies by leg and by demand	Day rate plus fuel, parking and tolls	Each fare fixed, but each one separate
Between appointments	The car holds your bag outside	No car, and a fresh wait each time	You parked it somewhere	Nothing until the next booking
Who drives	One chauffeur, start to finish	A different driver every leg	You	A different chauffeur each trip
Parking	Not your problem	Not your problem	Yours, at every stop	Not your problem
Suits	A day that moves while you work	One leg, right now	Days spent mostly in one place	A fixed trip with a fixed finish

The honest line: a day that is one trip to one destination should be bought as a transfer and paid for as a trip. An as-directed block earns its price on the day with gaps in it.

Answers before you travel

As-directed car service: common questions

What is as-directed car service?

A chauffeur and car held in hours, not sold in trips. You direct the day while it is happening — route, stops and running order decided on the move. Nothing about the itinerary has to be settled when you reserve.

Is as-directed the same as hourly or charter service?

One product under three labels. "As-directed" names who decides the route, "hourly" names the unit it is sold in, and "charter" is the regulator's word: in California, charter-party carriage under a CPUC TCP number. iRide360 runs on TCP 43833-A.

What is the hourly price for an as-directed day here?

A sedan runs from $75 the hour, an SUV from $100. 3 hours is the smallest block, from $225 or $300, and 18 the largest. Rates for special events and holidays may be different from the standard hourly rate, and a date's own figure shows before you book.

What does a whole working day come to?

8 hours reads from $600 in the sedan, from $800 in the SUV; 10 hours, from $750 and $1,000. Tolls and taxes already sit in those numbers and gratuity stays optional, so the figure you planned around is the figure you settle.

How much driving does each hour include?

20 miles. The figure is published, not hinted at, so a day of five addresses can be measured against it well before anybody reserves anything.

What if the driving runs past that?

Every extra mile runs $1 on a sedan, $2.50 on an SUV. Stop-to-stop city driving rarely reaches it: a Westside morning and a Downtown afternoon sit well under the allowance. It is the long freeway leg that breaks through.

What happens when the last meeting overruns?

The booking keeps going. Tell the chauffeur; added time rounds up to the next half hour and no second reservation is opened. Knowing at breakfast that a day will stretch, say so while reserving and open the block earlier.

Is waiting between appointments billed separately?

No. Waiting carries no charge of its own. Curbside at the first address, inside a terminal, parked outside the building where your two o'clock went 40 minutes long — none of it reaches the invoice. Stops go uncounted.

Does a single chauffeur stay all day?

Yes — one person, first address to last, at 3 hours or at 18. Nobody hands you to a replacement at lunchtime, and the day's plan gets briefed once.

Is gratuity built into the hourly rate?

No, and nothing gets added for you. At checkout the presets are 15% and 18%, 20% and 25%; a figure of your own and $0 sit alongside them. Whatever is chosen goes to the chauffeur.

Who settles tolls and parking during the day?

iRide360 does. Toll roads, meters, garages and valets along the way come priced in already and never resurface on the invoice. The lone exception is a venue's own entry pass, bought alongside your tickets.

When does counting begin, and what if I land first?

As you get in. The run out to fetch you is on iRide360, not on your block, and counting stops at the final address. Landing first, it turns over at the aircraft's actual landing, never the scheduled time. A late arrival slides the block.

Can the day run beyond Los Angeles?

It can, with charges attached. Hourly rides are meant to start and end in the same city — beyond it, a day pays for added miles plus added hours. A single long leg out is usually cheaper quoted as one transfer, so ask dispatch.

Which cars can an as-directed day use?

No vans, no buses, no stretched vehicles — a sedan from $75 the hour, seats 3 with 3 bags; an SUV from $100, seats 5 with 5. A party larger than five travels in more than one car on one reservation.

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