Uber in Santo Domingo

[MikeFisher]

as i hate driving in santo domingo myself, i don't like big cities anywhere and specifically hate the Capital on this Island, when i have to show up there for anything, which happens every 2-3 months, i take the Bus and once arriving in Santo Domingo i take at the same spot, where that bus drops me off, a Cabby which is always and at any time available there.
none of tem ever been a new enough model to pass the Uber requirements, none of them ever charged me(the Gringo) more than 250 pesos to cross town to anywhere.
never had to touch my phone to get a cabby in st dgo, at the spots i have to hang out, they are always available right there at any time i hit the road to look for one, they always been 100% reliable, friendly, helpful when i searched a location(as i know myself shyt in case of the city).
so what advantage would Uber have to me, for myself?
aside of my prior mentioned points, that Uber drivers are not registered in any way with the tourism ministry, they are just simple private persons doing tourist transfers without any license/permit/company registration etc,
so i would here on the east be happy to see such happening, because from there on i would hire myself(register our own vehicles) as Uber transfers for my own customers transportations to the Marina, such would really cut a big advantage on the costs of every fishing charter.
but again,
i don't see that this government will take their laws down in case of tourist transfers, but such complete change of laws/rules would be required to allow private persons to do such transfers.
doing such Today,
would mean i would get myself into deep shyt troubles and my vehicle taken in by the controllers of the tourism ministry.
what is the idea of handling such??
as i did not find a single article talking, not even mentioning anything about that important point.

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

Uber is the future of the transportation business. Conventional cab businesses will be defunct in 10 or so years.
Despite what you may hear (competitive propaganda), my experience with Uber has been very positive.

in DR??
where in the DR did you use them??
as for other countries, the feedback is o.k. in some and the opposite in other areas, depending which paper of the press been read.

Mike

 

[4*4*4]

Mike, your depth on this subject is impressive. What do you believe would be the best scenario for taxi/private car/Uber options? We have a dinner party of 12. Everyone is leaving at 1pm. In Manhattan, everyone hails a cab out front or contacts Uber and they are happy and on their way within ten minutes. In Punta Cana, we invariably wake our driver with apologies or crack open another well hidden bottle of Cab (no pun).

 

[MikeFisher]

Mike, your depth on this subject is impressive. What do you believe would be the best scenario for taxi/private car/Uber options? We have a dinner party of 12. Everyone is leaving at 1pm. In Manhattan, everyone hails a cab out front or contacts Uber and they are happy and on their way within ten minutes. In Punta Cana, we invariably wake our driver with apologies or crack open another well hidden bottle of Cab (no pun).

my point is,
will the government throw away all their rulings about the existing licensing of tourist transfer vehicles?
to allow every private person with a vehicle(fitting the Uber - set requirements) to run such transfers
without paying any of the til now collected high fees of the tourism ministry??
you have to see that such stuff is til now ruled by the state, which also makes big money out of it.
why should all that control be thrown away and left to the ruling of private persons?
without any more money received by the state for those services?

Mike

 

[windeguy]

my point is,
will the government throw away all their rulings about the existing licensing of tourist transfer vehicles?
to allow every private person with a vehicle(fitting the Uber - set requirements) to run such transfers
without paying any of the til now collected high fees of the tourism ministry??
you have to see that such stuff is til now ruled by the state, which also makes big money out of it.
why should all that control be thrown away and left to the ruling of private persons?
without any more money received by the state for those services?

Mike

That depends upon how much money UBER has to offer to the government.

 

[CristoRey]

Uber is nothing more than a taxi service and should be subjected to the same laws, regulations, taxes / fees as any other transportation company.

 

[Hector L]

Uber is a ride share service...in theory, the driver is going to the airport and if you wish to go there at the same time then
you Uber. This is all with a wink and nod but it works and works well.

 

[Tamborista]

Uber is a ride share service...in theory, the driver is going to the airport and if you wish to go there at the same time then
you Uber. This is all with a wink and nod but it works and works well.

That is news to me, I use Uber all the time, and it is a private car, much like a taxi, that you call with an app.
Are you confusing UBER with Via, apparently?
Oh, WINK...WINK???

 

[dv8]

my point is,
will the government throw away all their rulings about the existing licensing of tourist transfer vehicles?

mike, not that i want to argue with you about it but you are applying first world logic here. this is DR. the drivers of carros publicos do not have to use seat belts. many have no license. some have received multiple traffic tickets and they p*ss all over the law. many of the cars do not have marbete nor revista, many are not suitable for transport of rice sacks, not to mention human beings. they have no insurances and they run on gas from kitchen tank strapped in the boot with a piece of rope and some tape. you cannot seriously talk about regularizing uber drivers in any way shape or form because there is zero regularization of any other transport service in here, apart from them being organized in large criminal bands, commonly known as unions.

 

[Bronxboy]

That is news to me, I use Uber all the time, and it is a private car, much like a taxi, that you call with an app.
Are you confusing UBER with Via, apparently?
Oh, WINK...WINK???

Uber Technologies Inc. is an American international transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company develops, markets and operates the Uber mobile app, which allows consumers with smartphones to submit a trip request which is then routed to Uber drivers who use their own cars.[1][2] By May 28, 2015, the service was available in 58 countries and 300 cities worldwide.[3][4] Since Uber's launch, several other companies have copied its business model, a trend that has come to be referred to as "Uberification".[5][6]

Uber was founded as "UberCab" by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in 2009 and the app was released the following June. Beginning in 2012, Uber expanded internationally. In 2014, it experimented with carpooling features and made other updates. By mid-2015, Uber was estimated to be worth $50B.[7]

The legality of Uber has been challenged by governments and taxi companies, who allege that its use of drivers who are not licensed to drive taxicabs is unsafe and illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_(company)

https://www.uber.com/

 

[dv8]

looky looky, the storm is brewing:
http://www.elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=448867

while p?rez figuereo of CNTU (it begs for letter rearrangement, right?) says that uber will bring improvement to regular taxi services, antionio marte of infamous CONATRA announces a fight against uber. there will be blood.

 

[Chirimoya]

From today's news

Conatra says no to Uber in DR
Conatra transport union leader Antonio Marte has told El Dia that his members will not allow the Uber service to operate in Santo Domingo. Conatra has been known to use vandalism to maintain its monopoly on public transport routes with the tacit compliance of the government. "Wherever we see a driver offering taxi service through Uber, unfortunately, we will shut the road down," he said. "We are not going to let them operate," said Marte.
http://eldia.com.do/conatra-advierte-sacara-a-uber/

 

[bienamor]

Just once (will never happen) I would like to see somebody round up all of the transport union leaders, and find a dark hole to put them and then forget about them. Start with Marte, Hubieres. Second thought just shoot them an leave them for buzzard food,

 

[dv8]

my idea is to send them to be hanged, drawn and quartered and then stick their heads on pikes until the flesh falls apart.

 

[caribmike]

Go Uber! Everything making the life difficult for the 'Padres de Familia' a33holes I welcome!!!

Btw. any news about their 'Boca Chica branch'...?

 

[drSix]

Yup.

When I moved up El Choco road, my bus driver wouldn't go that far. In fact, couldn't find any of the bus drivers that would go that far off their route to get my kid to school. We were almost lined up with a private taxi. But nope, taxi driver didn't want to be caught picking up a student by the school taxi drivers. Idiots...

I'd do Uber, sounds like fun. I'd be afraid I'd get caught by some publico or motoconcho and get beaten.

 

[Mauricio]

Nice comments at the article in El Dia....

 

[dv8]

and now a demand that uber driver register themselves while taxistas don't have to...
http://www.diariolibre.com/economia...oco-mas-de-la-mitad-de-los-taxistas-XB1614541

 

[CristoRey]

I think Uber will be successful here if it can somehow be corrupted. If not, short life expectancy.

 

[Mauricio]

Dominicans complain but in the end are in a weird way kind of proud of how corrupt their society is. If uber doesn't land here you will hear the same people complaining now about 'los due?os del pais', tell their friends and especially their foreign acquaintances how uber succeeded everywhere but couldn't enter Dominican Republic.