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Uber in Santo Domingo
Greyline is a online transfer and excursions reseller, selling such services at many detsinations around the globe.
they work locally with a registered Transfer Company, one of many dozens already existing Transfer Companies.
nothing illegal on that, no confrontations with any Transfer Union, because they register a company and vehicles as a DR-Registered Company with the permit of the tourism secretary for such Transfers.
like very most Transfer Servcies, they are not allowed to offer Taxi Service.
that their online sales may be based in the US or Virgin Islands or China, doesn't matter, they are a average locally registered Transfer Company.
something completely different to unregistered private Uber drivers/vehicles.
Mike
such nice car would here in the country of course ride onGas Natural.
easy, cheap, good for the environment.
we are not a Brotha Country where they waste the globe's valuable resources by selling them cheap to the public.
thing Green, like Coconut Leaves GREEN.
Mike
Actually, 18/22 city/hwy mpg.easy to fix, backyard mechanics know the car in n out,
beg to differ with you
Actually Uber thrives in small to mid-size secondary cities where there is very little or no public transportation and spotty taxi service. In those sorts of places (think Windsor, ON/Central Coast CA/Indianapolis IN/Sevilla Spain etc) taxi service tends to be relatively expensive, slow to arrive, and low quality. Uber is generally less expensive than taxis by 10% to 20%, except during so-called "surge periods" when taxi are not available. Based on the factual and logical gaps I see in some of the "impossible in DR" posts, I suspect some have never used Uber or know the details of its business model. So, can it work in the Dominican Republic? I think it can in the center cities and tourist centers where there is sufficient demand. For example, uber is exploding in India. Bank issued credit cards are not common among the middle to lower classes in India. Uber's solution is an electronic wallet system. Similar systems based on mobile phone networks and adapted SMS operate in Africa. I don't think Uber will kill the transport unions for the same reason publico routes still operate side by side with the metro. There are segments of the population who are not comfortable with having to board and get off trains at pre-defined stops. As long as there are walk in bill payment centers for Edesur and as long as most of the country lines up for auto marbetes during the same few days at the same time, there will be a market willing to deal with broken down 20 year old Toyotas operated by unskilled drivers with little sense of where they are going.
Actually Uber thrives in small to mid-size secondary cities where there is very little or no public transportation and spotty taxi service. In those sorts of places (think Windsor, ON/Central Coast CA/Indianapolis IN/Sevilla Spain etc) taxi service tends to be relatively expensive, slow to arrive, and low quality. Uber is generally less expensive than taxis by 10% to 20%, except during so-called "surge periods" when taxi are not available. Based on the factual and logical gaps I see in some of the "impossible in DR" posts, I suspect some have never used Uber or know the details of its business model. So, can it work in the Dominican Republic? I think it can in the center cities and tourist centers where there is sufficient demand. For example, uber is exploding in India. Bank issued credit cards are not common among the middle to lower classes in India. Uber's solution is an electronic wallet system. Similar systems based on mobile phone networks and adapted SMS operate in Africa. I don't think Uber will kill the transport unions for the same reason publico routes still operate side by side with the metro. There are segments of the population who are not comfortable with having to board and get off trains at pre-defined stops. As long as there are walk in bill payment centers for Edesur and as long as most of the country lines up for auto marbetes during the same few days at the same time, there will be a market willing to deal with broken down 20 year old Toyotas operated by unskilled drivers with little sense of where they are going.
Taxi insurance, that is funny! Taxistas keep their antenna and magnetized roof sign in the back of their cars so they can pirate union territories at will. Watch them casually reach out their windows and plop the taxi sign on their roof and stick the antenna next to it. Who really believes they are declaring themselves as public transport when they renew their insurance, if they have ANY insurance to begin with?
But there would be a record of who ordered that uber. CC info, billing address etc.
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of course it would, so what?
the unions can afford the most expensive lawyers of the territory,
their drivers have bank accounts and credit cards,
so do their wife's, brothers in law, friends etc etc.
to order a transport to find out who shows up, thats easy.
they don't even need to bother right away, then. do the ride and memorize the car/driver, for an other time at an other place, without a registered call.
IF they wanna bother, they will do.
Mike
Today's DR1 news:
Uber is looking for Dominican representative
Uber has been advertising for a city general manager for the service in Santo Domingo. As the leader of Uber in Santo Domingo, the general manager would be responsible for the development and growth of the business. Those who apply need to possess strong marketing skills, with a particular capacity to reach new users and extend the Uber brand to the masses.
Those interested in the job can check out:
https://www.uber.com/jobs/69914
Uber is looking for Dominican representative
Uber has been advertising for a city general manager for the service in Santo Domingo. As the leader of Uber in Santo Domingo, the general manager would be responsible for the development and growth of the business. Those who apply need to possess strong marketing skills, with a particular capacity to reach new users and extend the Uber brand to the masses.
Those interested in the job can check out:
https://www.uber.com/jobs/69914
Haha, thanks Mike, it was so many posts ago that I forgot. Maybe some others did too, is dementia contagious??
Market it to rich but not stinkin rich parents to shuttle hijos de papi and mami to tennis and piano lessons. Have uber english with english speaking drivers. Uber black to have close to limo type service.
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the more read about them the more crappy they appear.
they do not allow guns on their rides in DR?, so they will have few customers and ZERO drivers.
and what a sick example to show their ruling against the guns:
a chicago driver, thanks God, shot a sick ba?""$d of a Gunman who was shooting into the public crowd.
of course the Driver been not charged with any crime.
to show such story, to tell the world that they do not allow Guns on their rides, well, i am now Sure that i will never use them. that app will not be installed on my family's phones.
Mike