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[TANMAN]

what if a passanger request a stop at liquor store do you let your drivers get what they want or make them get liquor

what if they ask you to pick it up before you pick them up

[Digger]

In Ohio it is illegal to supply or purchase alcohol for your clients, that would require a liq. license.

[Celebritylimoky]

In Kentucky, It is illegal for a limo company to supply alcohol. It is also illegal for the driver to go in a liquor store and purchase liquor with the clients cash, although, I suspect a few of the some of the drivers do it anyway for the tip, don't know this to be a fact. I prefer not to hear about it.

[Limo Scene]

We will gladly do either as long as the client provides the money. You cannot mark up alcohol and resell it. If your clients don't want to get out of the car, why make them? Could you imagine telling someone like, say, Elton John, to get out of the car and go get his own pint? All you are doing is running an errand so to speak. You are not using your funds so you are not selling it. You are merely carrying the client's money into the store to buy them liquor with their money. We are in the SERVICE business.

[LIMOJESS]

We are not allowed to supply the alcohol in WA State too. Let the client do it, that way he/she can choose from the different selection.

[Steve W.]

Will depend greatly on your local laws as you can see Tanman.

However when I have a group in the car I really do not like leaving them alone in it. As long as they agree to be locked in it and stay in it I am ok with it. But usually someone wants to get out and smoke and the like. and if people are on the inside and outside of the limo I like to stick around to monitor.

Always glad to buy stuff for them before the run or while they are in the club/restaurant. Being reembursed or money up front will depend on the client.

But usually they want to go in and pick thier own stuff so it's mostly a non issue.

[Salicete]

Timely topic, I just attended a training session with the Montgomery County, Maryland Police and Alcohol Licensing Office this afternoon.

Though in Maryland it is legal for passengers to consume alcohol in any for-hire vehicle, including sedans, it is not legal for operators or drivers to provide alcohol. (Cabs are expressly excluded from this provision; you can't drink alcohol in a cab.)

In the view of the county, since a driver is being paid to provide a service, if he or she goes into a store to buy alcohol, regardless of whose money pays for it, he or she is "providing alcohol" to passengers, and thus breaking the law.

When you consider the liability involved if something bad happens, when you can be accused of "providing" alcohol, especially in an area where it is illegal, it isn't worth it.

I would like to be able to provide the service to clients, but I won't violate the law, plus drunks are total buffoons anyway, why make it worse by getting them drunker. (My guys aren't allowed to leave the cars unattended, especially with passengers inside, in the first place, so a beer run into a store is right out.)

[Jim30]

You know guys, I know this is a little off topic here but I think that some of our states are a little ridiculous when it comes to alcohol laws.

We have clients spending hundreds of dollars for a few hours in a car and I can't provide them a $20 bottle of champagne for their 25th wedding anniversary. I find this ridiculous.

You can make the argument about drunks all you want. I think at a minimum we should be able to get some sort of liquor license.

Would I provide a bar full of 21 year olds beer, hard liquor, etc? Probabbly not, but would I like to serve a bottle of Champagne for a wedding or a bottle of wine for a wine tour? Yes I would.

The laws won't change so all I am doing is blowing hot air. Ah well.

Jim