Taxi Driver Online

Interesting article.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... value-cost

Very interesting quote.

One driver, who currently works for a fleet, spoke anonymously: “I’m not mad that Uber changed my business,” he said. “I am very happy that the garage owners are losing business. I saw one owner driving a Ferrari. Where does he make the money? From us, the drivers. So bring Uber, I love Uber.”

He recalled abusive employers screaming at him, and corrupt dispatchers – some, he claimed, demanded tips from all drivers, lest they be assigned defective cars or fewer shifts.

“Do you know who let Uber succeed? Garage owners, because they aggravated the drivers. That’s why all the drivers ran, to work for these apps.”

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If you substitute Private Hire operators for garage owners it's not hard to see parallels.

Down here some drivers (not many) have joined Uber for similar reasons, and many prospective drivers have decided not to do the local knowledge and work on existing firms, instead they have gone to London licensed under TfL and work Uber.

Not a fan of TfL cars working locally, to say the least, but I do understand why some do.

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