Vetrepreneur
Robert DeLucia
Age
62
Military Service
U.S. Army 1966-1968,
Specialist (E-4)
NaVOBA Member Since
2007
The Company
Star Transportation Group, Inc.
Location Pittsburgh
Number of Employees 90
Number of Military Employees 40
Website www.classycab.com
Year Founded 1985
Favorite TV Show “America’s Got Talent”
Role Model Rocky Bleier
Dream Job I’m doing it
Alma Mater Allegheny High School
Favorite Musician Kenny G
Favorite Food Pasta
Number of Kids 3
Hidden Talent Always looking sharp
What makes you jump out of bed in the morning?
Business challenges
What keeps you up at night?
Worrying about what I’m going to wear the next day.
Robert DeLucia isn’t a man who knows how to quit. Or stop, it seems. While many are content to start one business and watch it grow, DeLucia is the president of four transportation services-related companies, each one applying its own innovative approach to business.
“I never liked the idea of having a 9 to 5 job,” DeLucia said. “In reality, I’m always working, always planning, always thinking. I like the prospect of achieving things that are difficult, and when and where there’s a challenge, I rise to the occasion. By having a business, I challenge myself on a daily basis. I also challenge others – I like to help motivate people to do their best.”
DeLucia has managed to provide himself with four opportunities to challenge himself in the form of four transportation companies based in Mars, Pa., just north of Pittsburgh. The longest running and most lucrative of these companies is Star Limousine Service.
Star Limousine provides luxury transportation in stretch limos, luxury sedans, corporate vans and specially converted limo buses. Another of DeLucia’s companies, Classy Cab Company Inc., regularly chauffeurs professional athletes with its spacious cabs.
Founded in 2005, Classy Cab offers specially converted taxi cabs that have been stretched 6 to 40 inches with uniformed and drug-tested drivers providing upscale taxi service at metered rates.
“This is a new way of doing business for the taxi industry,” DeLucia said. “The key to staying on top is to differentiate ourselves from our competitors,” DeLucia said. “To let it be known how and why we are different and better.”
 
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