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DECEMBER 2018 www.taxiliverytimes.com Vol.19 No. 12 Lea los artículos en & español. An Insider’s Look at Both NYC TLC Regulated Industries ROY KIM BECOMES EIGHTH VICTIM IN A YEAR OF SUICIDES ROY KIM SE CONVIERTE EN LA OCTAVA VÍCTIMA EN UN AÑO DE SUICIDIOS Cop Drags Sick Livery Driver Protect Your Do Women Pay Driver Out of Car Shot in Packages and Car “Pink Tax” for After Crash Brooklyn During Holidays NYC Rides? TAXI & LIVERY TIMES 2 • • DECEMBER 2018 TLC DRIVER SERVICES, INC. TLC DRIVER SCHOOL All TLC Summonses TLC DRIVER SCHOOL DMV Traffic Tickets Offering AALLLL Required TLC Driver Classes The TLC Driving Institute was founded by industry experts to provide the highest level of education A dedicated team of lawyers for Black Car / For-Hire Vehicle (FHV), SHL and providing the necessary Taxi Drivers. 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TAXI & LIVERY TIMES 4 • • DECEMBER 2018 PUBLISHER’S PAGE & An Insider’s Look at Both NYC TLC Regulated Industries PUBLISHER: David Pollack A DISGRUNTLED E-mail:[email protected] 11 Edge Water lane Haverstraw, NY 10927 UBER DRIVER Phone: 718-706-TAXI (8294) EDITOR: Neil Weiss Email: [email protected] FINDS FLAW IN APP 714 Crestbrook Ave. Cherry Hill, N.J. 08003 Tel: 800-723-9119/856-751-0656 BY DAVID POLLACK Fax: 856-751-0657 The following experience is real, as related to me by an UBER driver email: CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Matthew Daus, Esq. “I am writing to you, Taxi Dave, because I have nowhere else to turn. I have Larry Fisher had less than a week’s worth of shifts sitting behind the wheel and already Meera Joshi have found out that there is no one to speak with at UBER, and my experience Bertram Merling proves their technology has a major flaw that hurts UBER drivers, hurts Steven J. Shanker, Esq. UBER themselves, yet benefits certain passengers with free rides. Michael Spevack, Esq. “I started my driving day answering an UBER e-hail that was to begin in ADV. SALES MGR./ART & DESIGN: an extremely affluent neighborhood. I passed many mansions on my way to a Michele Norton: 856-262-2368 cul-de-sac with only two mega-million homes. When I arrived outside the gated driveway, no one was in sight, so I chose to pull into the long, cobble - TRANSLATIONS: stone driveway. My fare kept me waiting in front of his home, and when he fi - The Language Center and NYC TLC nally appeared, I swiped ‘pickup’ on my phone, which normally starts the Copyright © 2018 by TAXI & LIVERY TIMES. technological journey to my drop-off point using UBER’s GPS guidance sys - All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor tem. As my car pulled out of the driveway and into the cul-de-sac, and we any part therof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, without the express started down the very first block, my iPhone (the only source of communication written permission of the publishers. The copy - between me and UBER) started rerouting me back to my passenger’s home to right is extended to the design and text created pick him up. I stopped the car and was trying to find a solution to my problem. for advertisements. This publication is not re - My passenger knew exactly what was happening because he said, ‘By the way, sponsible for errors in advertisement beyond there is no service in my driveway and very little on this street.’ the cost of the space occupied by the error. By - lined articles represent the sole opinion of the “Having faith in my UBER APPlication, I simply told my passenger that writer and are not necessarily in accordance when we get to his destination, he can swipe ‘picked up’ and all should be with the views of TAXI & LIVERY TIMES. This good. He agreed. When we arrived at his destination (a BMW dealership), I Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse realized there was no way to resolve this problem on my end, especially since advertising it deems objectionable. TAXI & LIV - UBER was giving me another fare. In fact, the only way to move forward to ERY TIMES is published monthly at a subscrip - my next fare, which I accepted, was to CANCEL the very trip I had already tion rate of $48 per year. finished. I told my passenger to help me and please swipe ‘picked up’ on his www.taxiliverytimes.com iPhone. His response was, ‘My wife handles all of this on her phone.’ I asked IN THIS ISSUE him to call her on the other cell phone he used during the fare, and make sure that I get paid. He simply said ‘yeah, I will take care of it.’ “It was at that moment I had to put all my faith in a stranger, hoping I Publisher’s Page ....................4 didn’t get screwed out of my first fare of the day. Yet with no way for UBER to resolve this, unless of course I CANCELED my finished fare, I did cancel Dear Taxi Dave ........................5 the finished trip. “Just to be crystal clear: I did send emails to UBER explaining the situa - Editor’s Notes ........................6 tion. It is four days later and I have received no contact whatsoever. The only Taxi News ................................7 result I believe I will see now is a wealthy 1%er screwing both a multi-billion- dollar company out of their percentage of my fare and the lowly driver, me, Livery News ............................8 being screwed out of a fare I deserve to be paid for. The FLAW IN THE UBER OPERATING SYSTEM is simple, if there is no cell-service when picking up a Directory ................................13 fare, the entire UBER model collapses when that fare is picked-up and the passenger is an intentional scammer as well. There is no protection for me. Fun & Games ........................15 “How do I get paid for this fare? Do I drive an hour and file a THEFT OF SERVICES report against the passenger in his swanky village an hour away Features ................................16 and waste more time than the fare is worth? Do I keep on waiting for UBER to contact me, wishing and hoping for a positive result? I have no choice, I BITy AMRatt hOewu Wtl.o Doauk s, ........................Esq. 17 must mark it up to experience and let a little-guy, who is struggling to earn enough money to pay for medical insurance, get screwed by a 1%er and a com - BCyo Mmeemra iJsoshii oner’s Corner ......23 pany that doesn’t really care about me or the obvious loophole in their inter - national operating system I have unveiled and experienced firsthand.” TBya LxHiB Tales ..............................24 Publisher’s Note: Has this happened to you? I want to know! Send an email TByh Lear rFy iFsishhebr owl ........................25 with your experience to Taxi Dave at the [email protected]. Taxi & Livery Times: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands 26 DBye Bfeertnrasmi vMer liDng riving ................27 TByh Meic Thaaexl Si pAevtatcokr ney ................28 News ......................................30 Press Conferences ......34 & 37 TAXI & LIVERY TIMES DECEMBER 2018 • • 5 DEAR TAXI DAVE Who’s Responsible Maybe this is just a tsunami blowing over and Cuomo-MTA) did their research and said, If a passenger gets injured getting in or out i t w i l l p a s s , a n d t h i n g s w i l l g e t b e tTtearx. i Solomon “Hmmm... looks like the market will bear an ad - of a wheelchair taxi because the vehicle is set –––––––––––––––––– —— ––––––––––––––––– ditional $2.50 per trip taxi surcharge! “So... too high, who’s fault is it? Is it mine for buying Grand Central Station even if some cabbies don’t want it, WE fer sher a wheelchair taxi? Or is it the city, for mandating DO!” m e t o b u y a w h e e l c h a i r t a x i ? Anonymous I heard on 1010 wins that the MTA is buying KABOOM! Bye-bye fare increase and hello –––––––––––––––––– —— ––––––––––––––––– Grand Central Station.