>dad owns a couple of cabs >invested around 300k on two licenses. >everything by the book, comply by regulations >expenses piling up, drivers union wants more money >gvt. wants a bigger cut in shape of inspection fees >shops, parts import, insurance rates, fuel, everything rising while the taxi fare has been stable for the past 10 years >now each permit is around 60k >spend around 2k a month holding mandatory services (like radio and gps beacons) that aren't used anymore (apps) because the gvt. mandates them
Haha, but uber is bad r-right? It will go bankrupt soon.
Family business. Been in it since the eighties. We had 15 cars at one point, and then diversified. We held onto those and I'm fucking enraged... Worse thing is that the public sees the whole industry as two guys (power hungry jews that own around 100 cars each*) as THE whole thing. I'd like to screw them over too. But when they say Ok, fuck cabs, take ubers (I would do it too if I was on the other side) they forget the 90% that are owners who invested in permits for retirement, or have a single cab as a source of income.
It's like if you owned a shop and I got the same goods, sold them next to your shop, didn't pay rent or taxes AND got that shit from china without paying import fees.
All I can do is stand outside and scream REEE UBER GET OUT while the gvt. walks up to them an scorns them on how illegal the whole thing is.
*One of them actually went out on TV and said that Uber was LITERALLY taking the food away from his kids, while dressed in a raggy adidas treksuit to look like a driver. The guy is a millionaire. PR Disaster. They are literally retarded.
Also, funny story. Mayor said he simpatized with the plight of the taxi. He understood what the decreasing prices meant. He went out and got 50 more cabs on the road (electric cause muh enviroment) the next day.
Leo Wright
Nah I don't believe in that.
Uber is a great service, for a great price.
If I beat them it will be on my own terms.
Jackson Nguyen
Is this real?
Andrew Flores
Evolve or die faggot
Brody Robinson
Hey OP maybe after this business fails you can find some luck in print media.. since you like being 20 years behind anyone with a brain in this country I'm sure you'll be great at it. Maybe you could be a travel agent, lots of those jobs popping up.
Nicholas Bailey
fuck you cunt, get a real job
Michael Scott
I usually drive myself, but I love the idea of uber. It gives me immense joy to know that the faggot taxi companies who sat on a fat fucking monopoly and chose to offer shit service at a shit price are now being assraped by a fucking iphone app.
