This video was recorded on 3/26/2024. There have been improvements to this situation that we will cover LIVE on Tuesday! The situation is seemingly improving!
I think when they started was not To disrupt Driver's livelihood. Uber/lyft Decide to play hard Ball By being greedy if they can't have the whole pie They rather pull the plug. Great sacrifice. Come with great reward. Thanks, maybe hard in the beginning But they will overcome and I hope they set President for the rest of the country to follow.
@leroybeckles309 I agree that it wasn't the goal initially. However, Uber and Lyft announced they would leave in August. That was 6 months ago. In November, MULDA said they had replacements lined up. Either that was a lie, or it fell through. This is my unfounded opinion; I think they didn't take the threat seriously enough. Sometimes, I feel like I'm being too harsh, but this is real-life money we're talking about. Mistakes and short-sightedness have serious consequences.
Yeah the license cost is so bs. Like no wonder there wasn’t an alternatives. Plus Commercial insurance that you have to provide for each driver instead by cost per mile.
It is not MULDA's job to "find alternatives", it's to earn better working conditions. Which they have done. When any industry goes through a shakeup, it takes time for it to adapt, and because of the startup costs and risks Uber and Lyft cannot be there when it's time for the alternatives to move in (especially because we can't actually be certain they're going to leave until they actually do... imagine if you were a potential replacement TNC and you spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars getting ready to start operating in Minneapolis only for the city to call Uber and Lyft's bluff and then they don't leave). There was always going to be a transition period if Uber and Lyft left and if I was a driver there I would've been long prepared for it by now, it's not like Uber and Lyft are the only gig economy jobs to do in Minneapolis or even the only way to do ridesharing/taxi service. The expectations you have here are straight up unreasonable, and in particular are completely out of step with the way the economy works and - more importantly - how incredibly difficult and expensive it is to open a new TNC or just a new business period (even when you AREN'T competing against an embedded duopoly of multibillion dollar corporations). Regardless, alternatives can only exist if there is room to exist to begin with. This legislation needed to pass first, and Uber and Lyft needed to say they were leaving first, before any alternative could even be looked at... and even after that, that sort of process takes months. You seem to have this expectation that they even had the capability to just pull one out of thin air, even though there's nothing to sell to alternative providers if there's no market for them to buy into. MULDA's a union, they're not magicians or businessmen. And now that everyone's sure Uber and Lyft are gone, you've got Co-op Drive along with almost certainly Empower and maybe that new company Moov.
With 70% fare take, Uber & Lyft can raise driver pay and still make more than Taxi companies that only take 10% of fare, or WRDZ or Empowr. Anyone disagree ?
People like this guy channel this he has somewhat control on what he can get paid. You can make a little bit more per hour if you work smart but these companies control the system and believe they don't have to follower any one rules.
There should have been alternatives a long time ago. Some of this is to blame on the city, making the TNC license forty-five thousand dollars. 3 year TNC License in phoenix is $1,000.
This video was recorded on 3/26/2024. There have been improvements to this situation that we will cover LIVE on Tuesday!
The situation is seemingly improving!
I think when they started was not To disrupt Driver's livelihood. Uber/lyft Decide to play hard Ball By being greedy if they can't have the whole pie They rather pull the plug. Great sacrifice. Come with great reward. Thanks, maybe hard in the beginning But they will overcome and I hope they set President for the rest of the country to follow.
@leroybeckles309 I agree that it wasn't the goal initially. However, Uber and Lyft announced they would leave in August.
That was 6 months ago.
In November, MULDA said they had replacements lined up. Either that was a lie, or it fell through.
This is my unfounded opinion; I think they didn't take the threat seriously enough.
Sometimes, I feel like I'm being too harsh, but this is real-life money we're talking about. Mistakes and short-sightedness have serious consequences.
Wow. The situation in Minneapolis is insightful 😮Uber and Lyft did say what they were going to do
Yeah the license cost is so bs. Like no wonder there wasn’t an alternatives. Plus Commercial insurance that you have to provide for each driver instead by cost per mile.
You’re pissing me off right now 😂
It is not MULDA's job to "find alternatives", it's to earn better working conditions. Which they have done. When any industry goes through a shakeup, it takes time for it to adapt, and because of the startup costs and risks Uber and Lyft cannot be there when it's time for the alternatives to move in (especially because we can't actually be certain they're going to leave until they actually do... imagine if you were a potential replacement TNC and you spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars getting ready to start operating in Minneapolis only for the city to call Uber and Lyft's bluff and then they don't leave). There was always going to be a transition period if Uber and Lyft left and if I was a driver there I would've been long prepared for it by now, it's not like Uber and Lyft are the only gig economy jobs to do in Minneapolis or even the only way to do ridesharing/taxi service. The expectations you have here are straight up unreasonable, and in particular are completely out of step with the way the economy works and - more importantly - how incredibly difficult and expensive it is to open a new TNC or just a new business period (even when you AREN'T competing against an embedded duopoly of multibillion dollar corporations).
Regardless, alternatives can only exist if there is room to exist to begin with. This legislation needed to pass first, and Uber and Lyft needed to say they were leaving first, before any alternative could even be looked at... and even after that, that sort of process takes months. You seem to have this expectation that they even had the capability to just pull one out of thin air, even though there's nothing to sell to alternative providers if there's no market for them to buy into. MULDA's a union, they're not magicians or businessmen. And now that everyone's sure Uber and Lyft are gone, you've got Co-op Drive along with almost certainly Empower and maybe that new company Moov.
They are helping other city push to their model. They are paid better and drivers are more happy.
Tristen you should start developing your rideshare app incase Uber and Lyft threatens your narket to getbthe edge
With 70% fare take, Uber & Lyft can raise driver pay and still make more than Taxi companies that only take 10% of fare, or WRDZ or Empowr.
Anyone disagree ?
People like this guy channel this he has somewhat control on what he can get paid. You can make a little bit more per hour if you work smart but these companies control the system and believe they don't have to follower any one rules.
There should have been alternatives a long time ago. Some of this is to blame on the city, making the TNC license forty-five thousand dollars. 3 year TNC License in phoenix is $1,000.
Yeah, it's pretty insane and the $45k is just for the twin cities. It doesn't include the city the airport is in which is another $45k.
I'm not a fan.
Yes definitely we will be replaced by AI. They are the true future. We are the past. We are like Blockbuster video... We done.