Things are changing in PP - private transport
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That's far out about being a cab driver JackedCamry. In Dublin they had a badge system, and the things went from 20,000 or whatever in the early 80s to quite a few hundred grand before the government deregulated taxi-cabs. The guys who had wasted serious wedge for those plates were going nuts.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I have used the taxis for years, mainly to the airport. They have always turned up promptly and the despatchers speak pretty good English. But i have always been fair with tuks, hardly ever negotiate a price and I have never had a problem with any of them. But they have always been expensive compared to taxis.
Yes well a lot of people have had their pensions fucked over so welcome to modern times.Jacked Camry wrote:
As a former cabbie, allow me to explain the medallion system and the so-called "mafia" as well as why and what Uber is doing to screw the working man.
You see, as a career cabbie, your options are quite limited from a financial point of view. You're not an employee in practically all cases, you're a contractor who rents the cab from the company. So you eat what you kill, minus your costs. The one thing that allows for a "pension" of sorts is the medallion. The ONLY way to get one, is to be a cabbie for a long time, having put your name on the list, and continued to drive throughout. When I was driving, this was about 25 years. When time comes for a new round of licenses to be issued (based on population increases), then the next cabbie on the list gets to purchase his medallion, which costs very little money, but is worth quite a lot. When I was driving (this is in the early 1980's) the medallion would generally be sold to the various taxi companies and would get around $250,000 or more for the cabbie. Thus, it served as a pension. The companies were simply paying for the licenses, so if you want to call them a "mafia", then pretty much all businessmen are mafia.
Uber has now done what much of the "new" and "sharing" economy is based on. That is, take away the private benefits and place the burden on the public. So instead of having to pay for insurance and licensing that is required by the state, they've privatized that to the driver and taken the money that was otherwise costed in as profit for the small number of people who own Uber. The drivers get the same as a cabbie roughly, but no pension. And they take away the business from career cabbies in order to make a few bucks by working overtime but for regular pay.
I'm guessing Uber don't have an operators licence but the self employed drivers are still licenced and insured. It's no different to private hire/taxi operator sub contracting their jobs out.
Times have moved on an unfortunately taxi driving isn't the cash cow it used to be.
Speaking as an ex Hackney and private hire driver.
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