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Old 09-06-2005, 01:18 PM  
SweetT
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2. Why did you get into the limo business?


At one of the first January shows in Vegas, JoeE had chartered a limo bus for the week and I had a chance to ride on it. It was one of the first ones ever built by Krystal Coach and I fell in love with it. Prior to that, I had been chartering limos on a regular basis and for long stretches at the time. Many of you will remember the very first IA2000 and CyberNet shows in Florida where we had 3-4 stretch limos running people between hotels and events as a Courtesy Shuttle. That year, I looked at my P&L Statements and realized that we had spent more than $60k on Limo Rental and figured that it would be much better to just go buy a Limo Bus and hire our own drivers. So, we did...and that was the beginning of the NatNet Party Bus. We took the bus the way it came from the Limo company and added some special effects to it. Killer Sound, Light Show, Fog Machines, the works and people fell in love with it. In fact, it caught the attention of many limo companies both here in Atlanta and some of the places that we travel. A few years ago one of the limo companies here in Atlanta came to me and offered to charter out the NatNet Party Bus for proms in March, April and May (which are historically slow months for our big conventions). I agreed and less than 90 days later I had made enough money to pay for the operational costs of the party bus for the whole year! At that point, I knew that the Limo business was my next step. Skip ahead a year or so and we are now one of the best high-end limo companies in Atlanta. Our company is called Toxxic Transportation ( http://www.toxxictransportation.com ) and it specializes in large, custom party coaches. We have a fleet of Party Buses, Stretch H2 Hummers, Navigators, Excursions and we even own the QPartyBus ( http://www.allthehitsq100.com/lifestyles/qpartybus/ ) which is a Party Bus sposnored by the largest radio station in Atlanta.


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