Car service company motors on amid obstacles

To survive the pandemic, Longboat Limousine recently stretched the meaning of the ‘customer is always right’ so far it ended up in Ohio.

As in a two-man crew from the private car and transportation service recently drove a Longboat Key resident 970 miles from the Sarasota barrier island to Cincinnati. The crew stopped only for gas, snacks and drinks — no hotel stays on the one-way, 25-hour trip.  “Some people feel more comfortable in one of our cars than a crowded plane,” Longboat Limousine President Jimmy Seaton says, adding other pandemic-based trips are in the works for similar-minded passengers, one to Kansas City and one to St. Louis. “It was a first class ride.”