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Without disclosing. If you could summarize that, because i think that is really important, continue. My recommendation to the board of supervisors first of all when i see a hummer with a pink mustache that is not green fleet, there is no disclaimers that say, if they say that all you need is personal insurance and that is not true, the department of insurance issued the statement and there needs to be a required disclaimer on the web sites. Thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon, my name is david smith and i am a San Francisco cab driver, and the cpuc is also the same licensing organization, state, organization, and that issues the tct, which is a complete joke. And it is a phoney taxi license and never been able to control it and it has been ramped for only 20 years and now they created the tnc and how thiser going to control it, i dont know. It is a mess. But you have all of these running the fleets and charging the gates and leasing cars out like a taxi cab, but it is illegal with
Million dollar coverage. I am going to emphasize mr. Dolans points, public is going to be paying for these injuries. No doubt about it. One of these tncs could have a minimum of 15,000 of Liability Insurance and if he crashes himself, or hurts himself, public is going to be paying for it. Mark my words. What is your name . Richard hibols. Thank you. My name is namshirm a and i am driving for the yellow 20 years. I am not here to praise you mta because they did so much damage to the taxi business, and you start inaudible and you think about the mta revenue, but they will stop over the inaudible how are we going to trust you . Before us and we actually used to go to each taxi company inaudible we are going to the airport, but all for 2, this is ridiculous, before she lied, and your mta investigators are making inaudible to confuse inaudible not working inaudible they do not. Thank you so much. Want us to fight for our rights uber, they do not have full coverage insurance. They are crimin
Out here. And if new york and new orleans and all of these other cities can shut them down, why cant we . Tmc is just another name for taxi and they do exactly what we do we pick them up and we charge them and we drop them off. Please dont get it confused we are not blind, you are not blind, and tnc drivers do not have this. This is what a taxi driver has to have on top of everything else, experience and skills. Dont get it confused. The industry is dying, and it is gapsing for its last breath and be regulating an unregulated business, if you regulate us, regulate them exactly the same, no difference. Thank you. Thank you supervisor, mar for having this meeting, we appreciate it very much. I am a medallion holder in San Francisco and i have been driving a cab for 24 years. And i am going tell you something now that the taxi industry that the companies will go out of business within a year if you dont stop these people. They are driving around with no. And i seen them living before me w
No problem. About insuring a lot of people told already that there was a cap between the revolution stops and uber, insurance starts and so there is no insurance and those cars driving around, and as we know are killing people and so we dont want to pay for it they should pay for it. That is first, second just one thing that i want to let you know, inaudible people is here and there are some medallions in the company that are not taken and the drivers not coming so when the heavy rain comes, those uberlift and side car people dont come to work, they dont like the rain they are afraid. The only people who work us. These are the taxi cabs fees, downloaded from the sfmta website. We paid thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in fees, we are struggling, we are dying out here. And the cab business is dying out here. And if new york and new orleans and all of these other cities can shut them down, why cant we . Tmc is just another name for taxi and they do exactly what we do we pi