Rent A Driver

What Rent A Driver does

Rent A Driver is a sole proprietorship taxi and rental car service operated by Oliver Meißner from Hirschaid, Germany, trading under the dual brand names 'RENT A DRIVER' and 'Oli's Taxi Hirschaid'. The company provides passenger taxi rides (up to 6 persons per vehicle), airport transfers, and a broad portfolio of non-emergency medical transport services covering dialysis, treatment, rehabilitation, doctor, and hospital discharge trips, as well as BG workplace accident transport. It also offers a 'Leihtaxi' (loan taxi) rental line. All services are dispatched from the Hirschaid base across the mandatory service area (Pflichtfahrgebiet) of Stadt Bamberg and Landkreis Bamberg under the official Landratsamt Bamberg taxi tariff ordinance, with fares that are non-negotiable and distance- and time-based.

The underlying technology stack is conventional and non-proprietary: a standard taxi fleet equipped with regulated fare meters (Fahrpreisanzeiger), mobile phones, and climate control. There is no mobile app, no API, and no digital dispatch platform — booking occurs via freecall (0800 0151618), mobile, WhatsApp, and a website contact form. Revenue is generated exclusively through transaction fees: per-trip fares for consumer rides and per-trip direct billing with German health insurance companies (excluding AOK and BARMER) and Berufsgenossenschaften for medical and accident transport. The customer base spans general public passengers, medical patients, and elderly/disabled riders, with senior centers and nursing homes as institutional referral sources.

Operationally, the company is a micro-enterprise (1–10 employees) actively recruiting additional part-time taxi drivers. It has no external investment, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no patents, no partnerships or alliances, and no technology integrations. Distribution is purely direct-to-consumer within the single regulated geography, with no documented international footprint or expansion beyond the Bamberg district.

Name

Rent A Driver

Legal name

Oliver Meißner

Website

https://rentadriver-taxi.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Rent A Driver is a sole-proprietorship taxi and medical transport service based in Hirschaid, Germany, operated by Oliver Meißner. It serves the Bamberg region with regulated taxi rides, airport transfers, non-emergency medical transport, and loan taxi rentals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Taxi and Medical Transport Services

NAICS

Taxi and Ridesharing Services (48531), Taxi and Limousine Service (4853)

SIC

Local & Suburban Transit & Interurban Hwy Passenger Trans (4100)

akta.pro primary industry

Chauffeur-Driven Car Rental (With Driver) (THADAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Local City / In-Town Car Rental (THADAAAC), Corporate & Government Contract Car Rental (THADAAAJ)

Keywords

• Taxi service
• Medical transport
• Airport transfer
• Passenger transport
• Car rental service

Headquarters

HQ city

Hirschaid

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Taxi Passenger Transport: Per-trip transaction fees for passenger transport services within the Pflichtfahrgebiet (mandatory service area) of Stadt Bamberg and Landkreis Bamberg. Fares are regulated by the Landratsamt Bamberg tax tariff ordinance and include base price, distance-based pricing, time-based waiting fees, and surcharges for special services (large taxi, wheelchair-accessible taxi).
2. Medical Transport (Krankenbeförderung): Dialysis trips, treatment trips, hospital transfers, and rehabilitation transport services. Direct billing with health insurance companies (AOK, BARMER excluded) and accident insurance (BG). Customers can also pay by invoice or credit card.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Rent A Driver operates a licensed taxi and car-rental service from Hirschaid, providing passenger transport, airport transfers, and non-emergency medical transport (dialysis, treatment, hospital discharge, rehabilitation, and workplace accident trips) within the mandatory service area of Stadt Bamberg and Landkreis Bamberg. Fares are regulated by the Landratsamt Bamberg taxi tariff ordinance, with direct billing available to selected health insurers and accident insurance providers.

Product overview

Rent A Driver is a traditional taxi and car rental service company based in Hirschaid, Germany, operating primarily in the Bamberg district. The company offers a unified portfolio of transportation services centered around taxi operations and medical transport. Services include standard passenger taxi rides (up to 6 persons), airport transfers, and non-emergency medical transportation covering dialysis, therapy, rehabilitation, and hospital discharge trips. The company also provides loan/rental taxi services. All services are offered under the unified brand 'Oli's Taxi Hirschaid' with pricing governed by the official Bamberg County taxi tariff regulations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Taxi Service (Personenbeförderung)

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Bolt: European ride-hailing and mobility platform competing with Uber in German urban and secondary markets. Comparable on city taxi, airport transfer and general passenger-transport demand pools.
• FreeNow: Mobility super-app aggregating licensed taxis and ride-hail across Germany and Europe. Directly comparable as a German taxi-aggregation competitor targeting the same passenger pool (general public, medical, airport transfers) with an app-based UX the subject operator lacks.
• MyDriver: Sixt-owned chauffeur-driven car hire service for airport transfers and corporate ground transport in Germany and Europe. Comparable as a direct competitor specifically to the subject's airport-transfer and corporate/BG chauffeured mobility offerings.
• Gett: Corporate-focused ground transportation and taxi-hailing platform operating in Germany and other European markets. Comparable on the chauffeured-transfer and institutional (corporate, medical) segment.
• Uber: Global ride-hailing and mobility platform active across German cities. Comparable as a competitor for the same passenger-transport use cases, with materially superior digital booking, pricing discovery, and driver supply.

Emerging players

• Via: On-demand shared transit and mobility platform with European municipal partnerships. Comparable as a passenger-transport competitor targeting institutional and route-based demand, including paratransit adjacent use cases relevant to the subject's medical/elderly book.
• Cabify: Multi-country ride-hailing platform with European and Latin American operations. Comparable as a passenger-transport competitor addressing general, airport, and corporate demand, though with weaker German market penetration than FreeNow or Uber.

Broad incumbents

• Sixt: Large German-headquartered mobility group spanning rental cars, subscription, and chauffeur services (MyDriver). Comparable at the broad level as a German incumbent occupying the local car-rental and chauffeur-driven mobility space the subject operator also serves.
• Europcar: Major European car rental and mobility group with German operations. Overlaps with the subject's Leihtaxi (loan-taxi / vehicle rental) side of the business and the broader rental-and-mobility space.

Others

• Lyft: North American ride-hail and mobility platform. Not a direct geographic competitor, but functionally analogous in the taxi-and-mobility platform space; useful as a benchmark for how platform consolidation pressures single-operator taxi economics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rent-a-driver

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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