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Some terminologies that you may come across on our website:
- Customer
- For the purpose of this site – a person looking to hire another person or company that has a vehicle (with driver) for hire.
- Bonded
- In short, being bonded means that a person or company has purchased a surety bond. Surety bonds are an operator’s way of reassuring customers that they stand behind their promises—and if they don’t, the customer will be protected.
- Insured
- Most areas require the vehicle to be insured to be legally able to drive on public roadways. The use of the word ‘insured’ in this case is that the person/company has extra (property/liability) insurance to operate commercially.
- Intercity
- Traveling/Transporting from one city to another (>50 km).
- Licensed
- It should be assumed, that if they are operating a vehicle they are going to have the proper driver’s license to drive it. What licensed means on this site is that they have a permit to operate in a given area. Some areas require a permit to operate a vehicle for hire (ex: a taxi/limousine license).
- Local
- Within a given area like a city and its outskirts (<50 km).
- Operator
- For the purpose of this site – a person or company that has a vehicle (with driver) for hire.
- Vehicle
- For the purpose of this site – a light-duty pickup truck/SUV, or a box truck (like a U-Haul), or a flat deck (like a tow truck), and now includes vans and busses.
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