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Posted on 10/19/2014 5:08:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
That Denver story is not true. You know before you get in the car how much it is.
Uber does a background check on every driver.
A good, decent background check on someone to determine his/her arrest/conviction record isn't very expensive or difficult to get. You can do it on-line in about five minutes.
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Same here. The Cab company here has things locked up solid. Whenever I need a cab I call a company that only uses Vets. Clean cabs and friendly English speaking cabbies.
If people want the blessings of liberty they ought to grow up and account for the consequences of what they do.
Of course they have. It's called INTERNET REGULATION.
Any provider like these will be required to report every transaction by the "Feelance" operators and these operators will be compelled to register with some govt agency.
At the end of the year, 1099 forms will be issued by, and to, all.
My brother and his wife used AirBnB from June to September as they traveled from Norway to Spain and back up north to Iceland and then back home to Minnesota. They posted from every place to family on FB and showed where they stayed and it all looked very nice. Several in the extended family traveled to meet them in England for the Monty Python reunion.
Another nice feature is that you get to rate the driver. In turn, the driver gets to rate you as a customer.
We live in an older mobile home .. bought outright
We live on 2.25 acres .. bought outright
The kids are gone
Got a 99 Subaru and a 2000 F150 ... bought outright and pray nothing happens
(Just replaced flex plate and starter on the 150 ... 750.00 inc labor ... a steal ... set me back a month)
EVERYthing's doable depending on how you live ... your physical plant, so to speak.
The biggest thing is get rid of the mortgage
I'd live in a tent in the desert if it was the only way to not borrow money from a bank/institution.
“The biggest thing is get rid of the mortgage”
Agreed, but the other two big thorns are:
1) Prop taxes $3200/yr
2) H/O insurance $2500/yr
You never own your own home.
One check doable
Then admire you greatly. You didn’t even try to defend SS n the least little bit. So if we ever have a chance to rollback socialism, even if it includes ridding ourselves of SS, you will be ready and willing.
I just used Uber for thr first time and loved it.
The main purpose of the licensing is to protect the monopoly position of the existing operators. The safety issue is a red herring.
Historically, not entirely, although it certainly has been used as such, a mutual relationship parasitic on the taxpayer. The reality is that insurance companies have little interest in actually managing risk, in part because lawyers have so inflated both the cost of proceedings and damage awards far beyond the attendant risk but also because insurers, itself a heavily regulated business for the benefit of the big players, only want to play with money and don't give a rip about the messy details as long as they can keep raising the rate base.
In other words, it's a structural problem with lots of fingers in the pie.
We can do it without it, but we won't like it.
That hasn't been my experience with our insurance carrier, USAA (homeowner’s policy, auto policy, and rental insurance policy for princess riverdawg). I have to answer questions every year at policy renewal time regarding conditions in and around my house, driving habits and records of the insured persons on the policy, etc. We recently had our house re-roofed and got a $100 reduction on our premium. After determining that princess did not have a car at college and rarely drives during the school year, USAA reduced the family auto insurance premium. The company also told us that if we had our smoke/CO2 detectors tied into the security alarm system, we would save money there, too. I'd say that is very pro-active risk management.
These businesses are actually very well known. They’re not anywhere close to the scale of the taxi, hotel, or other service industries - and as such not everyone has heard of them - but in business & technology circles they’re becoming VERY disruptive (as in: a new generation of middle-and-up-classes are dumping the norm for these new forms, completely disinterested in the old providers). They’re like Tesla (heard of them? luxury electric cars, scaring the crap out of the auto industry): hold only a fraction of the industry’s customers, but growing _very_ fast and eating into established businesses’ base.
Uber drivers are screened well. “Thug out for a score”? not after rigorous evaluation, paying for the expensive new car (and ongoing high-end maintenance), and making a good buck just shuttling people around. If you’re going to put that much effort into getting _into_ that position, you’re NOT going to just throw it away “for a score”.
Like most “why would you carry at location X?” questions, it’s not that you need CC for the location, it’s the trip to & from. Standing on a street corner poking at the Uber app to call the car on your smartphone tells a thug you’ve got money.
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