4 Amsterdam UberPOP-drivers arrested Taxi Times Update 10-14-2014

What is new in the taxi world? Our ‘Update’ summarizes the news of the last days and hours. We recommend using a website-translator because some links can be in foreign languages.

Message of the day

4 Amsterdam UberPOP-drivers arrested: Less than a week after UberPOP opened its service to all users of the Uber-app in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam police caught four illegal UberPOP-drivers red-handed and arrested them.

http://www.macnotes.de/2014/10/13/4-uber-fahrer-verhaftet-amsterdam/

https://taxi-times.w3.lvit.dev/en/amsterdam-uberpop-drivers-arrested/

Taxi demonstrations

Taxi protests in Stuttgart: With a demonstration, the Stuttgart taxi industry claimed a better cooperation with the city administration last week. The Stuttgart newspaper comments that this will be a dead end.

http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.cannstatter-volksfest-taxifahrer-bestreiken-wasen.9132c8ef-7f88-494e-b6b3-af36e3e84716.html

http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.kommentar-zum-taxi-streik-eine-sackgasse.fbb538b8-ea0d-4c86-a322-60bf7f858b06.html

Quote of the day

“This action is unjustified and disproportional.” Statement by Uber about the arrests in Amsterdam.

Competition

Second centre: In Cologne, the host city of the international taxi trade fair on the 7th and 8th of November 2014, a second taxi centre has been operating for a few days (taxi 17). It started with 40 vehicles. Most of the 1,200 Cologne taxis are connected to the Taxiruf Cologne.

http://www.rundschau-online.de/koeln/steuervergehen-stadt-zieht-taxi-konzessionen-ein,15185496,26756994.html

http://www.rundschau-online.de/koeln/neuer-anbieter–taxi17–setzt-auf-qualitaet,15185496,28043770.html

Minimum wage

Alarming numbers: According to a data overview of the Federal Employment Agency, every third taxi driver in Germany earns so little that he needs additional state support.

http://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/Saarbruecken-Hartz-IV-Taxis-Service;art2819,5467558

Cars

Free choice of drive: The new Mercedes Vito Tourer can alternatively be ordered with front-wheel, rear-wheel or all-wheel drive.

http://www.auto-medienportal.net/artikel/detail/28200/