Posts by goforit
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I must need new glasses looking at my spelling mistakes, LOL
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
6.1(6) A driver of a private hire vehicle may only charge a set fare or an hourly rate agreed with the prospective passenger at the time of booking.
This regulation was pointed out to the taxi industry by the NZTA when Uber first raised its ugly head with threats given to the industry of fines betwwen $400 to $2000 dollars but in reality it was never enforced. The removal of the braille sticker was requested by the taxi industry as very frew blind persons ever refered to it, in my case in nearly 50 years of taxi drivingI could could blind passengers in my car ion one hand.
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Hi all, I see the bill to amend the transport act in regard to small passenger services was introduced in parlament today.
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Taxi companies don't have the resources or the membership anymore to pressure anyone, at the moment drivers are leaving the ATOs they have operated under and working under Uber because this is where the work is. The choice the drivers have now is if you remain loyal and compliant you don't feed your family but turning your back on compliancy you at least earn something, not what you should be earning but its better than nothing.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
At the moment the limbo served up is helping no one but Uber, who don’t give a crap about the law. It’s coming across as deliberate organizational favoritism.
This is what preventing any common sense approach to our industry and the problems around compliancy. I personally beleive when the proposed changes to the regulations are put into law they are not going to be the ones proposed, I now think its going to be a free for all situation around Uber.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Especially now there is so many unlicenced vehicles and drivers completing in the same space.
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hi Ben, upon reflection you are proberly right, I only been looking at things from midday to dinner time and to put the past taxi numbers into the mix, taxis numbers drasicaly increase in the evening/night over day time numbers especially on friday and saturday by about twice. Also taking in the mix there was approximately 4,000 taxis in Auckland whicle now pretty much at a stand still there could be between 3,000 to 4,000 Uber vehicles. The number of non compliant drivers and vehicles could be any ones guess, at least 50%.
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This is where some experience of demand plus an educated guess comes in, looking at the Uber user app and judging satruation of various areas at certain time I would have a good guss at approximately 1800 Uber vehicles in Auckland. The actual amount of course would vary depending on day/night etc.
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A quick add up on the value of the offences is well over $100,000.00 more than enougth to cover the costs of enforcement.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm makes one think, in the years gone by and not to distanced this was the sort of enforcement faced by the taxi industry. I can recall when approximately up to 50 tickets would be issued on a regular basis and this brought the taxi industry under control but wow nearly 2 and a half thousand possible non-compliant drivers in 4 months no wonder the taxi industry is at a stand still. Hope the authorites keep the kid gloves off and clean up the industry before it completely breaks down due to lack of any control. This is why there is a Transport Act, the Transport Act was put in place approximately 100 years ago for the very reason we see now.