Using our cars for prom

[clarkmagpie]

Got asked by a chap at work if i would take his daughter and her boyfriend to prom this year.
She likes italian cars, was hoping for an Alfa but will have to make do with my Ghibli.

Is it par for the course to get suited and booted for this?

Anybody else got the call this year?

[Monkeylegend]

Check your insurance if you are getting suited and booted and paid

[Red9zero]

I just dressed smartly when I did it a while back. You should check your insurance is OK with it too. Be prepared to end up with fake tan and glitter everywhere as well

[Pixelpeep 135]

totally misread thread title and thought you were some kind of not real taxis

[clarkmagpie]

I don't want any money for it doing it.
Maybe a bottle of wine though

[jfdi]

Pixelpeep 135 said:

totally misread thread title and thought you were some kind of not real taxis

[Antony Moxey]

I suited up when I took my daughter to her prom

[clarkmagpie]

Antony Moxey said:

I suited up when I took my daughter to her prom

Excellent!!

[Monkeylegend]

clarkmagpie said:

I don't want any money for it doing it.
Maybe a bottle of wine though

Be careful taking anything that could be considered reward. You should also make sue that you can convince the police if you are asked that you know the people you are taking.

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

[clarkmagpie]

Monkeylegend said:

Be careful taking anything that could be considered reward. You should also make sue that you can convince the police if you are asked that you know the people you are taking.

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Its something I hadn't considereds so thanks for that.

I will maybe ask for the bottle of wine to be left on my desk rather than the passenger seat!

[andburg]

A friend has asked me to take her daughter to her prom on the Harley but I'm not sure the really thought about the practicalities of it.

Prom shoes/dress/hair hair aren't really going to work with a helmet and a motorcycle so I've suggest the fiat 124 spider is more doable but that I'd still take her out on the bike. They thought I could pick her up at the top of the venue's drive on the bike and ride her down sidesaddle without a helmet which I've refused to do as the most likely time to topple is at slow speed with an unbalanced and uncomfortable pillion.

Shes quite alternative so i did think she would potentially be in a suite bu shes going proper prom.

I would dress up appropriately in the full chauffeur style suit/shoes/hat as its all part of the experience

Edited by andburg on Wednesday 25th May 12:14

[Scrimpton]

clarkmagpie said:

Monkeylegend said:

Be careful taking anything that could be considered reward. You should also make sue that you can convince the police if you are asked that you know the people you are taking.

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Its something I hadn't considereds so thanks for that.

I will maybe ask for the bottle of wine to be left on my desk rather than the passenger seat!

Make sure you declare the bottle of wine to the revenue

[Byker28i]

I've done it a few times with the TVR, quite fun then stopping to see what other interesting cars turn up. It turned into a mini car meet

[Antony Moxey]

Monkeylegend said:

clarkmagpie said:

I don't want any money for it doing it.
Maybe a bottle of wine though

Be careful taking anything that could be considered reward. You should also make sue that you can convince the police if you are asked that you know the people you are taking.

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Oh behave yourself. If the police were to stop you (why?), then you simply tell them you're taking a friend's kids to their prom. Do you think they're going to lock you up as a serial paedo or something, or perhaps just contact the parents and see if it's true. Of course it naturally follows that giving a lift to friends' kids invalidates your insurance. FFS, paranoid much?

[ro250]

clarkmagpie said:

Monkeylegend said:

Be careful taking anything that could be considered reward. You should also make sue that you can convince the police if you are asked that you know the people you are taking.

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Its something I hadn't considereds so thanks for that.

I will maybe ask for the bottle of wine to be left on my desk rather than the passenger seat!

Really? I consider myself very cautious and someone who follows the rules but if you've been asked to take your friend/colleague's kids to the prom as a favour (even if they give you a case of beers to say thanks), I really don't think you need to consider the insurance implications.

[ro250]

@Antony Moxey - we posted at the same time. My thoughts exactly!

[BEP]

Took a mates son last year in the rally car still with its Festival Of Speed decals etc on…think his Dad was more made up than him

Also took my eldest a few years back in my MK2 Escort that I owned at the time, pictures he still looks at now

[ozzuk]

Monkeylegend said:

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Huh? Can you clarify what the risk is here as it certainly isn't a 'hire' scenario. I was asked to take a 'troubled' kid out aged 11 in my mustang as he loved them, amazing experience for him and it didn't occur to me it could be any kind of issue with police or insurance. Perhaps I shouldn't have let him drive though...

[Gad-Westy]

Antony Moxey said:

I suited up when I took my daughter to her prom

That’s a well attended prom!

[Durzel]

Antony Moxey said:

Monkeylegend said:

clarkmagpie said:

I don't want any money for it doing it.
Maybe a bottle of wine though

Be careful taking anything that could be considered reward. You should also make sue that you can convince the police if you are asked that you know the people you are taking.

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Oh behave yourself. If the police were to stop you (why?), then you simply tell them you're taking a friend's kids to their prom. Do you think they're going to lock you up as a serial paedo or something, or perhaps just contact the parents and see if it's true. Of course it naturally follows that giving a lift to friends' kids invalidates your insurance. FFS, paranoid much?

Hire and reward is an exclusion on most people's policies, I'd wager, ergo the Police would do you for no insurance in just the same way as they do people for "carrying takeaways for a mate's business on this one occasion because his driver let him down".

ozzuk said:

Monkeylegend said:

Unlikely to be asked I know, but if there was an accident they could ask some awkward questions and it could impact on your insurance.

Huh? Can you clarify what the risk is here as it certainly isn't a 'hire' scenario. I was asked to take a 'troubled' kid out aged 11 in my mustang as he loved them, amazing experience for him and it didn't occur to me it could be any kind of issue with police or insurance. Perhaps I shouldn't have let him drive though...

You've been asked to and agreed to do something (hire) and are given something to compensate you (reward). Seems pretty simple.

I'd go further and suggest that prom transportation might be construed as a taxi service, with appropriate qualifications & registration necessary.

Sounds ridiculous I know, but if you get stopped I would not assume you can just pass it off as giving someone a lift.

I'd just go for it and be sure to say if stopped that you aren't being rewarded in any way, and are just giving them a lift.

Edited by Durzel on Wednesday 25th May 13:46