The legacy tier
Where the legacy car falls short
Carey and EmpireCLS still run fleet-heavy, unionised payroll models. The bill shows the overhead before the road shows the chauffeur.
Vettra is a hand-curated chauffeur network for corporate travel managers, executive-protection teams, and the frequent business travellers their organisations cannot afford to misroute. Airport transfers, multi-stop boardroom days, roadshow convoys, and confidential ground transport for executives under heightened security arrangements — all from a single concierge booking.
Where Vettra lands
The Vettra wedge sits where neither the old guard nor the app-everywhere giant can easily reach: hand-curated regional chauffeur partners, a single concierge workflow for travel arrangers, transparent corporate billing that finance teams reconcile on first pass, and EV-first vehicle standards in every market that requires them.
The legacy tier
Carey and EmpireCLS still run fleet-heavy, unionised payroll models. The bill shows the overhead before the road shows the chauffeur.
The consumer tier
Uber Black and Lyft Lux collapse pricing per mile. The Blacklane consolidation will tighten that further. A booked Vettra vehicle has not been shared, pooled, or re-priced since the confirmation.
The Vettra tier
Vettra delivers the concierge feel of a private driver at the scale of a corporate network — without the legacy fixed dispatch costs or the consumer-app compression. One workflow, one vehicle at a time, one bill that finance teams can reconcile in a single pass.
What Vettra handles
Whether a single traveller makes the trip or a thirty-stop roadshow fills a week, the operating principle is the same — one vehicle, one brief, one chauffeur, one bill.
Quietly met at the kerb. Flight-tracked, buffer held, route chosen before the engines quit.
Curbside coordination, hold of bag room, and arrival-side discretion by default.
A single dispatch window for the day. Routes built around your eight meetings, not the surge map.
Standing-by chauffeur, on-call rebooking, and a single invoice line per stop.
For IPO and M&A diligence sprints, two vehicles move as one — staggered routing, parallel arrivals.
Convoy-briefed chauffeurs, in-car confidentiality, and pre-cleared boardroom drop-offs.
For executives under heightened physical-security arrangements — vetted, briefed, and undisclosed.
Discretion-certified drivers, no marketing placards, and routing drawn for separation, not speed.
Standards
Stage 1 / 4
Multi-step background screen
Re-verified quarterly and subject to unannounced spot tests.
Stage 2 / 4
Secure-handling training
Re-verified quarterly and subject to unannounced spot tests.
Stage 3 / 4
Discretion certification
Re-verified quarterly and subject to unannounced spot tests.
Stage 4 / 4
Quarterly recertification
Re-verified quarterly and subject to unannounced spot tests.
Where legacy operators require fleets on standby, Vettra contracts vetted regional partners. You pay for the journey, not the overhead.
Consumer black-car compresses pricing and pools riders we will not. Vettra is private-hire, dedicated, and pre-quoted.
A single concierge workflow for travel arrangers — book once, allocate to many, reconcile through one transparent bill.
EV-first vehicle standards in every market that requires them, with ICE backups where an EV cannot yet meet a brief.
For travel arrangers
Travel arrangers allocate one Vettra booking across many travellers and many stops, reconcile a single per-trip line in finance, and switch between vehicle standards without re-quoting the route. CFO-grade reporting, saved traveller preferences, and a concierge desk that responds inside one business day.
Per-trip report
One line per booking. Nothing buried.
Bills match your AP system’s first-pass reconciliation rules. Mileage, gratuity, and stop surcharges are reported, line by line — not buried inside a tariff table.
Frequently asked
For anything not answered here, the concierge desk responds inside one business day.
A direct line to the concierge
We respond inside one business day, in confidence. For executive-protection and confidential matters, drop a short note to the concierge desk — we will route the appropriate desk, on a single name.