As you’ll see in this short video limo safety is serious business.
The key? Driver training and vehicle maintenance. Here at Teddy’s we have always placed passenger safety on top of all other considerations. For example, all drivers are required to complete an extensive training course within 60 days of hire.
Additionally, all chauffeurs are required to undergo extensive drug and alcohol testing, and criminal background and DMV checks.
A New York City administrative tribunal recently suspended five Uber-owned car service bases in New York City until they hand over trip data.
The penalty comes from an earlier refusal on the part of Uber to hand over the data as requested by the Taxi & Limousine Commission on October 9th. They were seeking electronic trip data for rides from April through mid-September.
Please watch this short video for some simple, and practical, winter weather safe driving tips, such as:
Uber, the company that aims to be “everyone’s private driver” has run into a lot of bad press of late.
Is this merely the result of an aggressively expanding company, or does it indicate something more troubling on the horizon for Uber.
A December article by Katy Steinmetz in Time recently raised this issue.
In this video an ex-Uber driver openly shares the reality of insurance troubles that drivers face.
Basically, drivers for Uber are forced to conceal from their auto insurers that they drive for Uber, for the simple fact that personal auto insurance does not provide sufficient coverage or liability protection for drivers to carry passengers.
And though Uber claims to carry liability coverage for their drivers, this isn’t the case…