The answer has been there all the time and both TfL and our orgs have completely missed it.
Listening to the licensing hearing from York yesterday, the subject was touched on more than once. But even so, no one seems to be picking up on this.
It’s not as if this has been kept secret (like the hacking of Uber customer details, Or GreyBall, or the UberRape stats, of the Uber fake medicals, or the 13,000 Uber drivers with fake DBS certificates), this has been mentioned on oath in two court cases, one in Canada, the other in London at the workers rights tribunal.
There was even an all org meeting called to discuss this issue at Taxi house (which I attended) and it turned out both the RMT and Unite hadn’t bothered to research the subject.
There was no follow up to this meeting.
All the time, the answer has been there and it doesn’t need an APPG parliamentary commission, or a Judicial review, or a million pound war chest.
So what is this magic bullet ?
Don’t just take my word for it, take the trouble to listen to the webcast in the York licensing post.
A number of the witnesses giving evidence said virtually the same thing.
Here is Lee Ward, Chairman of ALPHA, giving his objection at the Licensing hearing, it's just 3 minutes long but gives all the insight needed.
At a number of licence applications, Uber were asked a very simple question.
"Could you tell us who the contract for the journey is between...?"
Who accepts the booking, is it Uber or the driver?
We have been told twice under oath in court, that the driver accepts the booking and this is illegal !!!
At all applications where this question has been asked, Uber gave no reply and the application was subsequently withdrawn.
Why are our orgs not asking this question?
Why haven't TfL asked Uber this question?
PH operators Abstract of Law PHV act 1998.
Sometimes, the answer to the most complicated problems are quite simple.
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
TfL have always known the driver illegally accepts the booking first in vehicle.
They said nothing about this, which makes them complicit in the illegal operations of all Uber's drivers.
This is malfeasance on a grand scale, and involves successive TfL commissioners, director and managers past and present, from the last 5 years.
We recently seen more evidence of collusion between Uber and senior TfL managers with the scandal over the 13,000 uber drivers with suspected fake DBS certificates.
TfL have let 10,400 drivers slip under the wire and have only investigate 2,400, of which 875 have actually been suspended. Just doing the Maths, means that 10% of Uber's whole work force could be considered as not fit to be licensed to driver a private hire vehicle.
Are TfL happy to see the public put at this sizeable risk ???
It now appears TfL are playing down this issue, are they hoping it will disappear from the radar over the next few weeks ???
The question needs to be asked, would they have treated Licensed Taxi drivers in the same way they've dealt with Uber's drivers......I think not!!!
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Every directed and manager at TfL knew/knows this app operates illegally, and yet they've bent over backwards to support its continued operation.
This is malfeasance, and must be dealt with ASAP
Maybe we should have lee ward representing us do you remember 6 years back a certain org wanted idenfires that person pleaded with borris please please well we got them and I can remember drivers saying I’m going to Earn an extra 5 grand a year we was lead to beleave that there was 3000 yellow badge drivers working in town we was fooled yes there was yellow badges working in town but not to the scale you was lead to believe this was the back door for uber to slip in the orgs knew dam well what was going on so instead of a few hundred yellows in town we ended up with wait for it 48;763 extra drivers courtesy of uber and our useless trade orgs if we go on strike no one would give a toss but if the uber drivers go on strike well it’s big losses for the company so they will bend over backwards to keep it up and running same as gett would or my taxi so why would anyone in there right mind bother spends 3/4 years learning the Knolwedge when u can just get a PH license and do same we have all worked hard to become the gold standard not really worth a wank when we have the likes of TFL killing us of I predict the Knolwedge of London will be scrapped in the next 2 years we have been well and truly screwed over
Jimmy, another quality post.
But how come we're reading this on a blog?
Why are we not hearing this from the LTDA or their bitches?
It’s a shame Jim you only print what you want people to see there are a lot of changes going to happen to the Knolwedge next year non of them are good
well said Anon @ 4.33PM - I concur with evry single word you wrote
and where are the 'orgs' in all of this?
and what are they doing?
and why are some still paying them?
Thank you mr wicker but I love this trade and it’s sad to see it fall apart with the likes of our so. Called trade orgs and the downfall of this trade will be due to them who represents us and let’s face it they can’t even. Do a good job of that
Anonymous at 6:07
Why you having a go at Jim?
Why hide behind an anonymous name?
People like you are the apathy of the trade, you read it all, bitch and moan and then do sod all about it apart from have a dig at people who do take their own time to make the effort.
If Jim decided to do away with this blog, what would you be reading instead? Womans Weekly???
Mayor Ed Lee, the corrupt politician who who opened the door to Uber's criminal Enterprise in the first place died on Tuesday. Lee's family allegedly has a controlling interest in Lyft. Not everybody in city government agrees with the corruption
Well said Jim, an excellent site for uncovering the truth and the illegal activities of UBER !
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