[mnorton]

Rhode Island has just passed a bill mandating that all Uber drivers must have blue cards, minimum insurance requirements, and that we both must collect 7% Rhode Island sales tax on all fares. I'm not sure when this is supposed to start but has Uber notified any of the partners of this? What are some of the partners responses to this?

This is all stuff Uber has to do. Most of this stuff are already met like the background checks and insurance. Uber has at least 1 million in insurance for the riders. We don't need to do anything yet.

 

[mnorton]

Maybe I'll have to re read it because I didn't see anything about blue cards yet.

 

[mnorton]

Ok I'll have to check it out

 

[mnorton]

Uber doesn't say anything until last minute. I don't think the blue cards will be any different.

 

[mnorton]

I hope not without raising the rates a little

 

[mnorton]

But it's 10 thousand for the first 100 cars then 150 after that per car. I think they will pay it

 

[mnorton]

Ya you are right it is 15000. They will just have to raise the rates to where they were last summer

 

[mnorton]

Unlike the taxi we don't have to taxi around to get fares so there isn't any wasting gas there. Tolls come out of the passenger automatically. Speaking for myself my car is excellent on gas and I myself average around 20.00 an hour after everything which I am ok with but I do have to hustle a bit as far as maintenance I do my own work on my car

 

[mnorton]

The taxi industry changed alot. I drove taxi when I was younger and I had to lease the car from the taxi company I couldn't make any money. You had to taxi around. It was for yellow cab. I didn't like it at all.lol

 

[mnorton]

I worked for Yellow Cab in New London Connecticut I had to pay them $130 a day for a 6 hour shift of course there are bad things about driving for Uber but the thing I like about it is that I can turn the app on and off whenever I want

 

[mnorton]

It's definitely slower when the kids are out of school. I didn't even make the 130 for the day so I ended up quitting.

 

[mnorton]

That is very true there is no reason why we all cant play nicely.