Uber
- Thread starter SunnY S
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Not like you can stop ride sharing at this point. Commercial insurance ought to be all it takes.
Taxis/drivers are ick. Rude, aggressive and bad drivers. At least with Uber you can post feedback on individuals. "You gonna get in a car with a perfect stranger?" is what one cabbie argued to me. Ummm, I don't know you either...
Taxis/drivers are ick. Rude, aggressive and bad drivers. At least with Uber you can post feedback on individuals. "You gonna get in a car with a perfect stranger?" is what one cabbie argued to me. Ummm, I don't know you either...
PHP:
What if we car pool and you pay the attendant when I fill up for gas? Technically I am not accepting payment. Not that I car pool, just wondering if that would be a viable defense.
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ashkan
Banned
All valid points. There is no issue with Uber as long as intact is providing insurance. The only issue is a bunch of whining cabbies who dont wanna give up their monopoly on this city!
Sorry buddy! Its 2015 and things change,
And as far as their expensive plates that they bought go.... Its an investment like anything else. It goes up and it goes down in value just like stocks. Sorry if your inverstment is going down, You did make a TON of money in the meanwhile though.
Sorry buddy! Its 2015 and things change,
And as far as their expensive plates that they bought go.... Its an investment like anything else. It goes up and it goes down in value just like stocks. Sorry if your inverstment is going down, You did make a TON of money in the meanwhile though.
if you are getting regular compensation for taking passengers it could be argued either way I think. Best to tell your insurer you car pool.
The terminology usually goes "For compensation or benefit" or similar. Payment doesn't have to be cash for it to be a benefit.
The taxi industry has to recognize things change.
Remember when every mall had a one hour photo place?
Remember all the video stores?
Remember licking stamps to send a letter?
Before shipping containers stevedores and longshoremen used to unload ships a box at a time.
What about deregulated trucking?
The list goes on.
IMO every Uber car has to have clear insurance and driver checks. If they can make a profit with better vehicles and lower rates the cabs have to look at their own bureaucracy issues.
Sorry, as much as the taxi industry has been screwed up for years it's not the cab drivers that should be blamed, they got the short end of the stick. Almost none of them own a cab license, the owners just sit at home collecting money from drivers who have to rent their license from them. They also have to pay their dispatcher a monthly fee, and either pay for the car if they don't own it or upkeep and insurance. They work long hours and they don't get rich that way.
They could find another job...not trying to be a smartass but ppl get so stuck in their comfort zone bubbles they forget we can make choices.
daught
Well-known member
How can drivers not see uber an opportunity then? A chance to get away the license owners. If the industry becomes deregulated, and uber takes too much of a cut most could jump on another app or TO cabbies could have their own app made.
You don't hear uber drivers complaining and most seem to be happy with what they are doing.
It was a while ago that I last spoke about it. Wow. $500k?
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So I have a stupid observation - If I was a cabby right now, I would stop being one and join Uber. Not pay for the License rental (if they own one then sell it), not pay for the ridiculous insurance for a cab and sell the taxi and buy a decent uber compliant car and call it a day.
No?
No?
Some drivers have added Uber alongside their central dispatch service (doing double duty in essence, which the cab companies don't allow technically). Probably even a few of those Uber protesters in that picture from City Hall use Uber. But Uber will eventually pay less than what they get now, if it doesn't already. Some Uber drivers are already raising a red flag about unsustainable incomes http://www.khou.com/story/tech/2015/09/30/uber-drivers-across-country-planning-to-strike/73070140/
But as long as Uber is popular then all it needs to do is squeeze drivers for cheap prices and they will be trapped into the Uber ecosystem. It's all good and well to jump ship to another app ecosystem in theory, but in practice users have to go where the other users are. Whoever owns the brand controls everything. That Hubbard lady from Beck Taxi suggested the same thing; if drivers were unhappy they could just up and decide to pay another cab company to dispatch for them but that's disingenuous because Beck has the name, they have the power.
