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...
Looks good - the purple mustache requirement is next.
ReplyDeletehey Tim,just what I want in my closet, a united and also yellow cab shirt.wtf your in your cab;they can't tell the difference between yellow and united;and you are the driver with your pvdl.You also have to buy min 3 shirts at yellow.Sounds like an employer to me.Just what I want to wear going out to eat.there are starters at the airport in co. uniforms no excuse for this.
ReplyDeleteYo Tim I recall National Linen supplying uniforms, 7 shirts and 7 pants for $15.00 a month. You would give them the dirty ones for clean ones. The plant used to be on Rome just down the street from the shop. But your ONE shirt looks cool. Do the mechanics still get there shirts with their name on them.. Larry 157
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