DRIVE A2B March 2019

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Drivers - be quiet!
Re DRIVE A2B Feb 2019 issue page 5,
Drivers – be quiet
The CPVV have created
a sample CPV sign
as guide for vehicle
owners offering booked
services. This can
be printed in any size,
colour, shape and
affixed to the inside of
one of the vehicle’s rear
windows by any means.
Perhaps a further
requirement for these
rideshare vehicles
could be on-board
cameras?
In unbooked vehicles
(taxis) it is compulsory
to have security
cameras fitted and
operational. In booked
vehicles (including
ride share vehicles) it
is NOT compulsory. A
vehicle’s owner MAY
fit a CPVV approved
security camera if they
wish, that is, install the
camera system on a
voluntary basis.
______________ Kelly
Please
explain...
The Victorian
government is saying
they had deregulated
commercial passenger
transport, but I strongly
disagree.
The deregulation has
given benefit to public
but despite to drivers
and operators and the
reason is Cabcharge.
Cabcharge still holds
a monopoly and even
worse they are not
giving their terminals to
independent operators.
The bottom line is depot
fees are not coming
down and even in one of
the worst case scenarios
13cabs destroyed
operator wealth by
putting an age limit on
vehicles.
So to me this industry is
not deregulated unless
benefits are passing on
to real workers as well.
__________________ Raj
It is certainly rude, unprofessional and
unacceptable behaviour for cab drivers
to use their phones while they have
passengers on-board.
In the last number of years the taxi
industry has seen a new breed of taxi
drivers who lack customer service
attitudes and manners, and that’s all
due to the lack of proper training and
monitoring. It is certainly some drivers'
behaviour that has added to the problem.
But this does not free taxi networks, taxi
owners and their representatives from
their responsibility for the situation the
taxi industry is currently facing. High
fare increases, running filthy and poorly
maintained cars caused high level of
public complaints to the media and to the
government transport authorities and this
prompted the government to authorise
Uber and to wash it’s hands from the taxi
industry and left it to destroy itself.
Maybe we should ask ourselves as to
why the NSW Government and other
state governments did not issue more
taxi plates for sale or lease at a reduced
price for the Uber drivers? Or increase the
number of taxis on the road and therefore
increase the competition, whereby still
maintaining its control on the taxi industry
under one operating rule, instead of
authorising Uber as a competitor under
different rules?
____________________________________ Ben
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