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...
Tried out Uber today on East Coast city near Cape Kennedy, FL. Had 80 yr old driving a rented car !
ReplyDeleteSaid he has about 15 passengers a day plus some regulars he takes to work. Not sure how much you could make from that, $200 a day maybe ? Of course he doesn't tell the rental agency what he is doing with the car and hopes he not have any accident. Didn't ax what he pays to rent the car but he said he only keeps it 5 days or so and switches around different companies.
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