The car is moving. Nobody is paying for it.
The run out to a collection. The run back after a drop. Either one can be an empty leg.
Same car. Same primary job. A movement you were covering regardless.
Put it up. You set the price and the terms. If it sells, you choose how the fare reaches you.
Nothing to pay until an empty leg sells. Your firm's page is free to claim and free to keep.
What this is
An empty leg is not only the run home after the primary job. It can just as easily be the run out to the collection.
Out or back, if the car was making the movement anyway, put it up. Somebody books it. You decide how the money reaches you.
This is revenue from a car that was already moving.
You already try to place your empty legs. The problem is the time it takes.
Somebody goes down the booking system a few days out looking at what can run back to back. Or you ring round the service partners and horse trade over a rate. Or somebody puts an empty leg on social media when they remember.
Then nobody remembers for weeks.
Doing it properly means going down the diary again tomorrow because the diary has changed.
That staff time has to wash its face too.
LuxeLegs gives the empty leg somewhere to sit while somebody looking for that route can find it.
It does not remove the admin.
Nothing here pulls jobs out of your booking system. Today, putting up an empty leg is something you type in.
How it runs
Another profile to build from scratch is another job.
So your page starts with what is already public about your firm.
Claim it and it is yours, free to keep, whether you put an empty leg up or not.
A route that looks right on a map can still be useless.
Hours waiting at a terminal can kill it. So can a drop that takes the car outside your patch.
You set the asking price, radius, waiting time, vehicle class and what you will and will not accept.
You may know the movement well ahead. The car and chauffeur may not be settled until much closer to the job.
So an empty leg lists no more than 72 hours before travel.
A traveller sees the vehicle class and your firm's rating. Your name arrives with the booking.
Flights land early. Jobs move. A chauffeur gets reshuffled on a phone call. The diary does not care that you put an empty leg up.
Until it sells, pull it straight back down whenever you need to.
If it sells, you choose: the traveller pays you direct, or the platform takes it at booking and passes it on with the commission already off.
What stays yours
You know what the empty leg needs to make before it is worth taking.
You set the asking price. If you allow an offer, it is one offer and it cannot go below a floor you set.
No auction. No surge. The floor holds.
A matched empty leg can still be a bad job.
Too much waiting. Too far outside your patch. The wrong vehicle class for what you are prepared to send.
You set the radius, waiting time, vehicle class and what you will and will not accept.
Your customer list is the business.
The client stays yours. We do not ask for your customer list.
Paid the way you choose.
Collect the fare yourself, or let the platform take it at booking and pass it on with the commission already off. Your call.
The diary will move.
An empty leg lists no more than 72 hours before travel, and you can pull it down any time before it sells.
You have seen platforms come and go.
Your firm's page is free to claim and free to keep. Nothing to pay until an empty leg sells.
The awkward questions
Then you are on the hook.
The primary job has gone. The empty leg has not.
The chauffeur still needs paying. There is fuel in the job. And handing it to a service partner may make the arithmetic worse because a peer firm can charge you more for the one-way than you charge your own client.
It will not wash its face.
We do not have a mechanism that makes that exposure disappear. There is no point pretending otherwise.
The argument has to stand on portfolio terms or it does not stand at all.
A run of empty legs you would not otherwise have had sits against the occasional one that goes wrong. Judge that over a quarter.
The 72 hour ceiling narrows the window, and you can pull an empty leg before it sells. Neither removes the risk.
They might.
Your own client could see the same car another way, wait for one next time, and leave you without the primary job.
That is the cannibalisation bet.
The safeguard is timing. An empty leg cannot list more than 72 hours before travel, so it is not sitting there well ahead as something a client can plan around.
Could the odd primary job still be lost? Yes.
The bet is that the empty legs you place are worth more than the full price work you occasionally lose.
You can decline that bet.
You have seen what happens when the whole job gets reduced to one price cell.
It ignores the thing this trade actually sells.
A late car with a chauffeur who does not know what to say is worse than an on-time car a class below, with a chauffeur in uniform and cold water in the door.
You set your asking price. If you allow an offer, you set the floor and the floor holds.
The traveller also sees the vehicle class and your firm's rating.
Reliability matters. The chauffeur matters. Turning up properly matters.
The fair question back
That is the obvious problem.
You can already put an empty leg on social media. You can already ring service partners.
Another place to type it in is only worth having if somebody is there looking for the route.
Operators come first, deliberately.
There is little point sending travellers somewhere with nothing useful for them to book.
On the demand side, the conversations are with loyalty programmes, corporate benefit schemes and travel partnerships.
Those are conversations. They are not contracts.
There are no completed journeys yet, so there is no fill rate to quote. You will have to suck it and see.
Before you decide anything
The dangerous bit of the arithmetic is treating the movement as though everything is already paid for. It is not.
The car, fuel and miles are tied to the primary job. The chauffeur is not. If the empty leg sells, somebody still has to drive it. The chauffeur gets paid for that work, sometimes at the normal rate for the job.
So this is not free money. It is revenue from a car that was already moving.
The calculator uses your numbers: how often you have an empty leg, what you would ask for it, and what you would pay the chauffeur.
It also lets you put the primary job dropping out of bed into the arithmetic, because that is the risk worth testing.
Your figures stay on your screen. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is saved.
Four numbers you already know. Nothing here asks you to guess how the platform performs.
Your assumption, not ours. LuxeLegs has no launch data to offer you yet, so anything we printed here would be a guess wearing a suit. Move the slider to see the range.
Same empty legs, same price on the card. Only the commission and the monthly fee change.
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How this works. Monthly figures use 4.33 weeks. Everything here is arithmetic on the numbers you typed in. No figure on this page comes from LuxeLegs.
What it is not. This values the capacity you already run, at a fill rate you chose. It is not a forecast of what will sell, and nobody can honestly give you one before the platform has traded.
What it costs
Stay on Launch until your own arithmetic gives you a reason not to. Nothing is owed on an empty leg that does not sell.
Where we are
Put one on social media. Ring a service partner. Look for something that runs back to back.
Sometimes it is worth doing. Sometimes the time spent on it does not wash its face.
And somebody has probably pitched you another platform before. So do not take this one on trust.
Claim your firm's page. Put up an empty leg the car was running anyway. Suck it and see.
If it earns its place, have a go at another.
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