Not all stops are defined or priced the same. Most are billable. Some are not.
Any deviation from the direct route to some intermediate point that results in increased distance traveled and/or additional time required to complete the trip constitutes a billable stop.
Courtesy Stops are not billable.
A Courtesy stop is defined as:
A quick personal stop (normally 5 minutes or less) directly en route to buy coffee or newspaper, etc.
Elite drivers provide courtesy stops to our customers at no charge.
No Free Jump:
A passenger getting out of the car at any place other than the final destination may trigger a stop charge.
Stop Pricing Guidelines:
Except for Elite, the NYC Black Car Industry generally overstates stop pricing by use of full zone-to-zone calculations.
Since 1990 Elite has employed our own proprietary algorithm using a vector matrix developed in house to calculate prices based on actual distance traveled.