Want to start a ground transportation business in the United States? This playbook walks you through it step by step. Airport transfers, city-to-city rides, hourly charter — learn the business models, permits and compliance (with California TCP as a worked example), commercial insurance, fleet economics, pricing math with worked examples, booking and dispatch systems, hotel and corporate partnerships, driver hiring models, and a 90-day week-by-week launch checklist. Plus 6 ready-to-use SOP templates: airport pickup procedure, vehicle pre-trip inspection, booking confirmation flow, cancellation and no-show policy, customer complaint handling, and driver onboarding. Written for owner-operators starting their first transportation company. Instant PDF download.