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Re: four20 wants to drive taxis by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/08/2017, 5:57am PDT
Slice from PepsiCo wrote:

Also, do you think four20 drives for Uber now?


I looked it up once as part of something I was researching. In Maryland, which I'll use as an example since this is where I live, to get a license to drive a taxicab requires you have been accepted to work for a licensed taxicab company. So, just like technical workers in the U.S. from other countries that have a green card to work here, your ability to work in the industry is tied to your employer.

But technically they aren't your "employer" because most places don't hire drivers, they rent them the cabs and charge for expenses (gas and maintenance).

So, you file an application with the Maryland Public Service Commission, (which in other states would be called the Public Utilities Commission), and if the application is in order they give you an authorization to have the Motor Vehicle Administration (which in other states would be called the Department of Motor Vehicles) to have your license rated to drive a taxicab.

Given this much trouble to obtain a license to drive a taxicab I can't see anyone doing that much anymore unless they are going to be a salaried employee of a taxicab company. I suspect with how easy it is to simply drive for Uber or Lyft I don't see working as a self-employed cab driver because the costs are much higher and the potential returns are much lower.

That is, unless the local authorities try to ban what are called "Network Transportation Provider Systems," which is what Uber and Lyft qualify as. And I see this as futile; this has brought out into public what was basically an underground or off-the-books system where people provided rides to others for less money than typical taxicabs, which can be very expensive for those with not much money.
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