Uber does not differ for inspection – Parool.nl

Uber does not differ for inspection – Parool.nl

23-08-14 09:30 – Source: Het Parool

Niek van Leeuwen, director of taxi app Uber. © anp

Taxi Service Uber set itself diametrically on opposite Inspectorate for Environment and Transport (ILT ), who has announced stricter go action against ‘amateur drivers. Uber guarantees the fines imposed on drivers get

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The Uber app that lets you order a taxi. © anp

If they do not have to adhere to rules, why should mainstream taxis to try them

Bas Vos, Amsterdam Platform Quality Taxi

According to director Niek van Leeuwen Uber Netherlands, the law is unclear about the status of Uberpop the service where individuals leave their cars when the latter as a taxi, for about half the price. using an app on call “The Passenger Transport Act coming out in 2000, meanwhile, the technology progressed, the law is not easy-developed.”

In the Passenger Transport Act are requirements for taxi companies to protect consumers, such as the duty a taximeter to have. Taxis also work with rides vouchers and maximum rates.

Legal clarity
Van Leeuwen thinks he’s okay fines get Uberpopchauffeurs because they do not comply with the rules around professional passenger pay. “We want our drivers are not out on the street with a sense of insecurity.” Uber is not a lawsuit, but it strives to ensure that “legal clarity.”

Last week, at any time of the day should always be ordered. Least two Uberpoptaxi’s The taxi world believes that action should be taken against the new competitor. Much firmer Richard Olling of TCA taxi company calls the Uberpopchauffeurs’ mustache managers, but with an app. ” “People carry against money without proper documentation is in fact an illegal activity.”

on loose screws
Bas Vos from the Amsterdam Platform Quality Taxi states that if no firm action is taken against the Uber Poppers, the entire taxi system being called into question. “If they do not have to adhere to rules, why should regular taxis that do then? If not maintained, I predict that the regular drivers massively replaced their blue license plates for an ordinary yellow license plate. “

The ILT will soon perform actions with the police on the street. Drivers who are caught will be fined up to 4,200 euros. If they fall into repetition, penalties may be imposed to forty thousand euro

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(By: Marc Kruyswijk)