DRIVE A2B February 2018
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ALEX TAXIS<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
Uber has introduced a new policy<br />
that a licensed driver on Uber’s app<br />
must take an uninterrupted six-hour The deal is subject to regulatory<br />
break after 10 hours of time on a trip<br />
with a passenger or on their way to<br />
pick up a passenger after confirming<br />
a trip request.<br />
Drivers who do not take a long<br />
enough break will not be able to log<br />
into the app and take trips.<br />
$BUY<br />
SOUTH EAST ASIA<br />
Uber has done a deal in Southeast<br />
Asia with ComfortDelGro,<br />
Singapore’s largest taxi operator,<br />
valued at SG$642 million (AU$608<br />
MT<br />
million).<br />
ComfortDelGro will spend SG$295<br />
million to buy 51 percent of Uber’s<br />
Lion City Rentals subsidiary in<br />
Singapore. This is ComfortDelGro’s<br />
largest investment outlay in its fortyplus-year<br />
history.<br />
approval, but if and when completed<br />
it will give Uber exclusive access to<br />
& BROKER P/L<br />
Comfort’s fleet of more than 15,000<br />
vehicles in Singapore. That would<br />
more than double Uber’s driver<br />
numbers in Singapore.<br />
AFRICA<br />
The Ghana Private Road Transport<br />
Union [GPRTU] has insisted that<br />
Uber vehicles must be sprayed<br />
with taxi colours per Ghana’s traffic<br />
regulations.<br />
insisted that they are only fighting for<br />
fairness.<br />
According to him, per Ghana’s<br />
traffic regulations, taxis must have<br />
some of their parts painted with<br />
yellow colours as well as have a<br />
section indicating the number of<br />
passengers the taxi could take,<br />
information about the owner of the<br />
taxi among other things, adding that<br />
because Uber taxis do not have such<br />
information; they are currently, what<br />
he termed, “invisible.”<br />
He also insisted that because taxi<br />
drivers pay tax and other levies to<br />
the state, Uber drivers must do the<br />
same.<br />
“We believe in competition, we do<br />
SELL<br />
not fear competition. We’ve been in<br />
Vice Chairman of GPRTU, Robert<br />
existence several years for now so<br />
Saba, who said they are not scared<br />
we do not fear competition but the<br />
of the competition posed by Uber,<br />
right thing must be done.”<br />
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