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Extra stop
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An extra stop is anything the passenger adds between pickup and drop on a flat-rate transfer, and the trade usually prices it one of two ways. A short stop on the way, a few minutes at a pharmacy or picking up a colleague, carries a flat surcharge, commonly $15 to $30. A stop that changes the route or runs past 10 or 15 minutes is a new leg, or the trip is re-quoted as hourly.
The distinction protects the flat rate. Point-to-point works because the route is known. One extra pickup across town turns a 25-minute transfer into an hour, and the chauffeur's next run is now late. The surcharge is not about the miles; it is about keeping the fare honest when the job grows.
Extra stops are requested in the car, not at booking, and that is where the money gets lost. The chauffeur says yes, nobody tells the office, and the invoice goes out for the original transfer. The common mistake is having no way for a stop to reach the booking after the trip has started.
How liverybook handles it
A short stop is added to the leg total as an extra, one of the components alongside base rate, gratuity, tolls, parking and wait time charge. A stop that is really a second movement is its own BookingTrip leg on a multi-leg trip, with its own pickup, drop and status sequence, and its own row on the run board. See bookings.
Related terms
This term lives in Bookings. liverybook is the operating system for ground transportation.