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UBER App - USING IT COULD LAND YOU MULTIPLE $110,000 FINES
I'd never heard of the 'Uber' app until yesterday.
If you're aware of it, and have registered as a driver, think again.
You risk a $110,000 fine for each trip where you carry a passenger.
It's a phone app that hooks passengers up with motorists / drivers.
Instead of calling a cab or hire car and paying exorbitant taxi or hire car fees, Uber connects passengers with every day drivers. Driver and passenger negotiate a fee and the driver transports the passenger. As long as your car is less than 6 years old you're set…
But not so fast.
If you, the driver, carry a passenger for a fee even as low as 1c you risk a $110,000 fine (NSW) per trip.
What Uber is is promoting is illegal.
***Just to clarify (for those who haven't read the link) the words above are from the link, not my words.
Some seem to think I have a problem with UBER, as I don't (& probably never will as I rarely) use taxi's I have no problem.
I simply asked "UBER App, is what they offer illegal?"
If asking a question is so wrong, then I'm sorry.
Have used Uber twice overseas no problems at all, very good service and dam cheap. In Vienna was a quarter of the cost city hotel to airport by taxi, was a 5 year old Merc. in top nick, friendly driver who sure knew his way around without a GPS.