Chauffeur Driven and industry strategic consulting firm Driving Transactions are proud to announce an ongoing collaboration to compile, analyze, and report on real-time industry trends. The ambitious project will help operators benchmark their company’s performance against the greater industry, while also identifying common issues and emerging pain points that are impacting chauffeured transportation—whether locally or nationally.
Each quarter, the companies will invite industry operators across the nation to participate via email in a brief, three-minute survey. Operators’ data will remain anonymous. The quarterly data will be thoroughly and carefully analyzed by the dedicated research team at Driving Transactions, and reports will be published by CD and Driving Transactions.
You can participate through this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9T87VD3
The genesis of the project was born from a dearth of statistics about our very niche industry and its position within the greater hospitality ecosphere. While other niche sectors have robust and publicly available data and analytics—including hoteliers, airlines, and rental cars—chauffeured transportation has lagged behind when it comes to real-time information about our industry. This data could help operators make critical decisions about their business, from deciding the newest fleet vehicles to add to whether it’s a good time to consider buying or selling your company, based on market forces you might not see otherwise.
“Operators regularly ask us for financial metrics, KPI averages, and what we are observing in industry trends, and this data collection alliance provides a much larger pool of respondents for us to collect, compile, analyze, and report on critical trends that owners should know as they make critical business decisions,” says Driving Transactions Principal Analyst Ken Lucci.
Of course, this invaluable endeavor is only possible with the consistent participation of our industry peers and friends. To help get things moving, CD will raffle off one free full show pass to the 2026 CD/NLA Show in Las Vegas this March 1-3 to those who choose to voluntarily provide their name and email address when completing the survey. As mentioned, the survey is anonymous, and the information will be used for statistical purposes only. The better the participation rate, the more it truly helps us all.
“We are extremely excited about this collaboration with Ken to collect useful, timely data as well as identify market and industry trends for operators of all sizes. This project also goes hand in hand with what have been doing for years with our Benchmark & Best Practices questions and the responses we publish regularly,” says CD President Chris Weiss.
Driving Transactions is a financial analysis, strategic consulting, and M&A advisory service that specializes in the passenger transportation industry. Since 2018, Principal Analyst Ken Lucci and his partner, Chief Financial Analyst Cole Weber, have financially reviewed nearly 300 transportation companies and been involved in more than 40 transactions working with operators and commercial lenders.
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