Enjoy it while I can. This time of year is when you can get the Sarasota/Bradenton runs and the best way to go is over the Skyway from TPA. The shame is that the taxi overlords have so demonitized this business,brie driver will work like a dog or ox the rest of the year to just pay expenses. If the company hears we made an extra five dollars, they will want it while drivers sleep in a mission or tenement row house. It was once different.
The HCPT and Hillsborough County public commission today affirmed Uber is an illegal taxi company and bared them from operating in the Tampa area. This is wonderful news to longtime drivers like me. An Uber attorney asked Hillsborough County to make new rules to fit the trendy ridesharing movement pioneered by his company and Lyft, but was told flatly on Wednesday that Uber is an illegal taxi service. The county's Public Transportation Commission unanimously affirmed that an appointed officer had enough evidence to fine Uber, based in San Francisco, for providing hiring and public taxi services without proper licensing. Uber attorney Drew Sorrell held to the company's argument that it isn't in transportation. As a technology company, it doesn't need to follow transportation regulations as they are written. "There's a perfectly good way to do this, and that is to write the rules so that they fit," said Sorrell, of the Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor...
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