A rare & very public company specific NYC TLC notice that states it will penalize any driver (or vehicle owner) that works for Empower has raised many questions in the NYC TLC community 🤔
Best point is deactivation. I am one of them. Does TLC do anything about it? Arbitration? What does TLC and regulators expect drivers to do when the duopoly of Fuber and Gyft controls 95% of the business? Do they penalize riders too cause the choose to pay less end engage Empower? If I ask my neighbor to give me a ride to airport is it illegal? Does TLC expect drivers to still pay their duties and fees at for example average $5k a year just in insurance? Should drivers resume to unethical trends for survival because of the fear that they can’t pay their duties and all these money that gets split in so many ways instead riders to drivers split to everyone else before the actual people doing the real work? Black car fund, sales tax, Tlc fees car insurance, gas, major fee cut these companies take, car itself cost and maintenance, than pay tax at the end of the year…etc…we all know where all this gets to. Than playing the broken record of minimum wage…Drivers need to get paid more…that’s true but not forcefully killing demand supply ratio when it will get so expansive nobody’s going to use the service anymore or very few in other words breaking the business. I know some will survive. But Ok…
-So if loosing TLC licensees and engaging in private so called peer to peer or whatever they wanna call it, gipsy cab, bandit cabs etc…does that mean the majority of the drivers intend to cause harm to anyone? I believe the 99.99% of drivers are on the road to make as
much as they can and have an average standard of leaving. Nobody’s committing crime.
-Or does that mean the regulations cause harm to the majority including riders paying so much for trips and sustaining the duopoly that these controlling players as Fuber and Gyft have on the system? And for what purpose? Oh I know, the benefit of a very few at the cost of majority, including riders and drivers.
Insurance? How much insurance is needed? 100k? 1mil? 10mil? 100mil? 1bil? Answers is that is never enough! Why? Not because US is a developed economy or NYC is an expansive market and litigation needs to be compensatory as such. It is because of all the lawyers fighting. On the side of the companies and on the side of the victim’s of a potential incident. Yes it makes sense to have the extra they require, but they require too much from personal individuals in comparison with what they require from these mastodons businesses and not let the free market and competition have its course rejecting the little players like Empower.
Best point is deactivation. I am one of them. Does TLC do anything about it? Arbitration? What does TLC and regulators expect drivers to do when the duopoly of Fuber and Gyft controls 95% of the business? Do they penalize riders too cause the choose to pay less end engage Empower? If I ask my neighbor to give me a ride to airport is it illegal? Does TLC expect drivers to still pay their duties and fees at for example average $5k a year just in insurance? Should drivers resume to unethical trends for survival because of the fear that they can’t pay their duties and all these money that gets split in so many ways instead riders to drivers split to everyone else before the actual people doing the real work? Black car fund, sales tax, Tlc fees car insurance, gas, major fee cut these companies take, car itself cost and maintenance, than pay tax at the end of the year…etc…we all know where all this gets to. Than playing the broken record of minimum wage…Drivers need to get paid more…that’s true but not forcefully killing demand supply ratio when it will get so expansive nobody’s going to use the service anymore or very few in other words breaking the business. I know some will survive. But Ok…
-So if loosing TLC licensees and engaging in private so called peer to peer or whatever they wanna call it, gipsy cab, bandit cabs etc…does that mean the majority of the drivers intend to cause harm to anyone? I believe the 99.99% of drivers are on the road to make as
much as they can and have an average standard of leaving. Nobody’s committing crime.
-Or does that mean the regulations cause harm to the majority including riders paying so much for trips and sustaining the duopoly that these controlling players as Fuber and Gyft have on the system? And for what purpose? Oh I know, the benefit of a very few at the cost of majority, including riders and drivers.
Insurance? How much insurance is needed? 100k? 1mil? 10mil? 100mil? 1bil? Answers is that is never enough! Why? Not because US is a developed economy or NYC is an expansive market and litigation needs to be compensatory as such. It is because of all the lawyers fighting. On the side of the companies and on the side of the victim’s of a potential incident. Yes it makes sense to have the extra they require, but they require too much from personal individuals in comparison with what they require from these mastodons businesses and not let the free market and competition have its course rejecting the little players like Empower.
Very sad world we live in.