Car hire with a driver

For most of our corporate and safari work, the driver is the product. Anyone can hand over a set of keys. What clients come back for is a driver who knows which of two roads to Bariadi is passable this month, who has dealt with a checkpoint a hundred times, who speaks English well enough to explain what you are looking at, and who turns up clean and early without being asked.

Our drivers are licensed, English-speaking, and assigned by route rather than at random. On the safari circuit that means a driver-guide who has run the western corridor hundreds of times and knows where the cats sit in the afternoon. On a field visit to Geita or Simiyu it means someone who has done that district in the wet season. On corporate work it means a named driver attached to your account, so you are not briefing a stranger every Monday.

A chauffeured rate covers the driver’s time, their meals and their accommodation on overnight trips — there is no separate bill appearing at the end for any of that. For companies we run monthly accounts with signed trip sheets and one invoice at month end, which is how most of the NGOs, mining contractors and government projects we work with prefer to do it.

Weddings and delegations are a particular case: matched vehicles, polished, drivers in proper suits, arriving before the hour you gave us. Book two or more vehicles together and the rate comes down.