A yearly chauffeur contract with BlaakLane.com holds the same monthly block of 40, 80, 120 or 220 hours for twelve months at a locked, all-in CAD rate. A business sedan is $155 an hour, so an 80-hour year is $12,400 a month. The contract adds a named chauffeur team, a like-for-like replacement car within two hours and quarterly reviews.
Why sign for a year instead of a month?
A monthly block already gives you a named chauffeur and a reserved car. A yearly contract does three further things that matter most to boards, missions and households with fixed budgets.
The rate cannot move. The hourly rate on the day you sign is the rate for all twelve months. If the rate card changes in the spring, your contract does not. A transport line in an annual budget, a mission's allocation for the fiscal year or a family office's household plan can be written once and left alone.
The team stays together. A year gives us the time to build a small team around you: the primary chauffeur, a backup and a relief pool of two or three who cover holidays, long days and the week your primary is on leave. Each of them has driven you before the day they are needed.
The car is never the reason you are late. If a contract vehicle is off the road for any reason, a replacement of the same class is at your address within two hours, in the cities where we hold our own fleet and in most of the network.
The yearly price, month by month
The yearly contract uses exactly the same blocks and hourly rates as the monthly chauffeur service. Nothing is marked up for the extra commitment and nothing is discounted; the value is the lock and the team.
| Block, each month | Business sedan | First-class sedan | SUV Business | SUV First | Your own car |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 hours | $6,200 | $11,400 | $7,400 | $9,400 | $3,800 |
| 80 hours | $12,400 | $22,800 | $14,800 | $18,800 | $7,600 |
| 120 hours | $18,600 | $34,200 | $22,200 | $28,200 | $11,400 |
| 220 hours | $34,100 | $62,700 | $40,700 | $51,700 | $20,900 |
Every figure is CAD and all-in, with taxes and a 20% gratuity included. Over twelve months an 80-hour business sedan contract totals $148,800 and a 220-hour first-class sedan contract totals $752,400. Billing is monthly in advance; a one-month deposit is held for the length of the contract and applied to the final month.
The same rules as a monthly block
Each day includes 150 km; after that it is $3 a kilometre in a business sedan, $4 in an SUV and $8 in a first-class sedan. Highway tolls, parking and Wi-Fi are passed through at actual cost. Hours beyond the block are welcome and billed at the contract hourly rate. Hours and kilometres do not roll over from one month to the next. Out-of-town work, for example a week at a plant in Windsor or a board retreat in Muskoka, is billed at the hourly rate plus 50%, with the chauffeur's hotel and a flat $100 travel allowance, whether the chauffeur drives our car or yours.
What a year of service looks like
Month one is about the brief. The account manager walks through your regular addresses, the doors you prefer, the airports and FBOs you use, who else rides with you and what the security lead needs. The chauffeur team drives the routes in advance.
Each quarter the account manager sends a short review: hours used against the block, kilometres, out-of-town days, overtime and any service issue and how it was fixed. If you consistently use 60 hours of an 80-hour block, the review says so and recommends the 40-hour block with overtime for the busy weeks. Changes take effect at the next quarter, or with 30 days' written notice.
At renewal you see the full year in one report and decide whether to renew at the then-current rate card.
Who signs yearly contracts
Most yearly clients fall into four groups.
- Chief executives and boards. A company that moves its CEO and directors every working day wants a fixed annual cost and a supplier that passes procurement once. See corporate accounts and Fortune 500 travel.
- Missions and consulates. A head of post or consul general needs a protocol-trained chauffeur for the whole posting, not a new face every quarter. See diplomatic and consular transportation.
- Family offices and principals. One team that knows the household, the school, the clubs and the airport routine. See HNWI and family offices.
- Public figures. Athletes in season, artists in residency and broadcasters on a daily schedule, all of whom value the same discreet chauffeur every morning more than any other feature.
The chauffeur standard behind a contract
Every contract chauffeur holds the licence their city requires for passengers for hire, keeps a clean driving abstract, completes an annual background check and is trained in defensive driving and protocol. They drive within the Ontario Highway Traffic Act in our home market and within the local equivalent elsewhere, and every vehicle is inspected, commercially insured and four model years old or newer. National bodies such as Transport Canada set the vehicle safety and recall framework; our written standard on the safety page sits on top of it.
Every yearly contract comes with an NDA that binds the whole team, as standard rather than as an extra. A code name can stand in for real names on bookings and invoices, and trip records are seen only by the account team.
A yearly contract or a driver on your own payroll?
Some households and companies weigh a contract against employing a driver directly. Employing one means recruiting and vetting them yourself, running payroll with the statutory remittances and vacation pay that come with it, leasing or buying the car, insuring it for the way it is used, maintaining it, and finding cover every time the driver is ill, on holiday or simply worn out after a fourteen-hour day. It also means the household or the company carries the employment risk if the arrangement ends badly.
A contract moves all of that to us. The chauffeur team is recruited, checked, trained and insured before you meet them; the car is ours to maintain and replace; holidays and sick days are covered by people who already know your routine; and the cost is a single monthly figure, all-in, that does not change for twelve months. If the chemistry with a chauffeur is wrong, which happens occasionally even with the best people, you tell the account manager and the primary changes without a dismissal, a severance conversation or a gap in service.
There is one more difference that matters to principals: a contract chauffeur works within a team that is accountable to a written standard, a dispatcher who can see where the car is, and an account manager who reads every complaint. A lone employee has nobody behind them at 3 a.m. when a flight is diverted to Montréal.
Contract terms in plain language
- Term: twelve months from the start date you choose.
- Rate: locked for the term at the hourly rate in force on the day you sign.
- Billing: monthly in advance in CAD, with a one-month deposit held and applied to the last month.
- Changes: block size can change at a quarterly review or with 30 days' written notice.
- Replacement vehicle: like for like within two hours.
- Confidentiality: NDA included for the whole team.
- Single trips outside the block: standard terms, including the cancellation scale of 10% at 72 hours or less, 50% at 48 hours or less and 100% at 24 hours or less or a no-show.
If a year is longer than you need, start with a monthly block and convert it to a contract at any point; the hours already used count toward the first year. The National Limousine Association publishes a useful checklist of what any multi-month transportation contract should state.
