The fragmentation of the Long Island limo companies have historical roots. 15 years ago in Long Island, operated 21 municipal limo station – only 16 000 limousines, which was comparable to the number of limousines in other world capitals. Theoretically, they could turn into after the privatization of large limo companies, but this did not happen. Once in the early 1990′s then-mayor of Long Island, Gavriil Popov ceased to fund municipal limousines, an army of limo drivers bought their “Volga”, joining the ranks of “bomb” – that time is the birth of the term. Limos whose rates were much higher, lost their market and, as the general manager of the company’s Internet-Lyne (part of the holding “Autoline”) Alex Toschev turned into fiction: “For the blind leadership of limousines to keep the columns from 50 machines, and started earning money on rent.
The next phase – the emergence of private dispatch, which grew into a company specializing in transportation. Pioneers were the company Marteks “and” Scarlet “, who hired left without work ex-drivers limousines. But to become a major player to these companies that have made heavily on foreign limousines, prevented the crisis of 1998 “Scarlet”, for example, then had to get rid of the entire fleet of limousines, but Mercedes, reduce staff and operations center to break off relations with the majority of drivers contract employees, says deputy general director of the company Elena Shishova.
With the development of leasing schemes for companies the opportunity to quickly build their parks, especially at the expense of relatively cheap “Volga”. For a few hundred machines Gorky Automobile Plant purchased the “New Transportation Company (brand name” New Yellow Limo “) and” Elex Polus Limo “. But it turned out that the “Volga” is of little value for use as limousines. Co-owner of Limo Nostalgie Igor Prut, explaining why his company did not take the “Volga”, stated bluntly that the machine of the brand “only a year away, and throw it on – can not stand the regime limo (100 000 kilometers per year). It says, perhaps too emotional, but, be that as it may, the largest player in the market – “New Yellow Limo” – began the forced transition to the Ford Focus. Until the end of the year, according to the company’s general director Mikhail Barinov, will be replaced by 1000 machines, that is, two out of three. “Volga” simply does not pay: the more expensive “Focus” live longer and require much less maintenance.