Professional Hourly As Directed Services

Hourly As-Directed on Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill is the clearest case for as-directed service rather than point-to-point transfers, because a day on the Hill is almost never one journey. A vote is called and a meeting slides an hour. A markup runs long. A member becomes available between hearings and a stop gets added that was not on the schedule that morning. Booked as separate transfers, every one of those changes is a new booking, a new wait and a new vehicle that is not there yet.

Booked as-directed, your chauffeur stays with you for the whole block and absorbs all of it. Between movements the car waits rather than leaving, so when you come out there is no interval between walking through the door and being in the vehicle. Our chauffeurs stage along Independence Avenue SW for the Rayburn House Office Building, on Independence Avenue and New Jersey Avenue SE for Longworth, on Constitution Avenue for Senate-side pickups at Russell, and at the Second Street entrance for Hart. That positioning is only useful if the car is already there, which is exactly what as-directed buys you.

It suits lobbyists and government affairs teams moving between committee rooms across the Rayburn, Longworth, Cannon, Russell, Dirksen and Hart buildings in a single day, counsel attending hearings of unpredictable length, and anyone whose afternoon depends on when a vote finishes. Full detail of the buildings we serve is on our Capitol Hill car service page.

Hourly As-Directed for Diplomatic and Delegation Work

Delegation movements run on the same logic, with more vehicles. A visiting delegation is a day or several days of engagements, not a transfer, and the schedule is set by people other than the passengers — a bilateral that overruns, a courtesy call that is added, a security detail that changes the timing. Releasing vehicles between engagements and rebooking them is how delegations end up waiting on a kerb.

As-directed keeps the vehicles and the chauffeurs with the party for the duration, which also makes the convoy order and seating stable rather than reassembled at each pickup, and allows the same chauffeurs to stay with a delegation across a multi-day visit. Embassies, foreign missions and visiting delegations generally book this way as standard. See our delegation transportation in Washington DC page for convoy coordination, protocol seating, advance planning and FBO arrivals.

Hourly as-directed has a three-hour minimum and is billed in fifteen-minute increments beyond the booked block. Current rates are on our rates page.