Secret Wars wrote on Jun 1
st, 2017 at 4:37pm:
Uber may be buggered but so is the taxi industry as you know it. Uber was the first of many.
I'll restrict my comments to Qld.....as I know that jurisdiction very well, others...not so well. Here, we are not buggered, and we will not be buggered as soon as Government gets off its arse, opens its eyes, gets some competence within the Department ~ there is no-one there, in the section dealing with Uber, with more than two years experience and all the positions they occupy are casual....ergo, Government has not got a clue what it is doing, but Politicians will not be able to ignore the issue for much longer....as if they do, they'll be on their arse, just like Wyatt Roy was put on his arse.
To provide an example ~ the only Licence I now own is what was called an 'owner operator multi' Licence. That meant (even though I hold it in a Company name.....) I, as the Director, had to do 150 shifts in the Cab each year, (or someone else in a Senior Position in the Company had to....so that condition was easily got around by appointing a regular driver as General Manager and giving them just the name, no control, to fulfill that condition.) The 'multi' bit was that the vehicle used had to be at least a seven seater.
Because of those two conditions, the difference in value between it and one with no such conditions, was considerable...say about $150,000.00. Out of the blue, a couple of weeks ago, I get a letter from the Department telling me that my Licence is now unconditional....as they decided to drop the two conditions I mentioned.
In pre Uber terms, they just handed me a considerable sum of money......for nothing.
They have no idea what they are doing.