[Hidden-tech] Drive for Uber? Or ride with them?

[Marcia Yudkin]

>>I really don't think UBER hasn't thought this whole insurance thing out...it would be very surprising for a company valued at $53 billion to not know the work-around for car insurance for their drivers. I think your agent is just scaring you.<<
For sure they have thought it out!  Their strategy is to skirt the law as long as they can get away with it, as well as to encourage their drivers to skirt the law, by claiming laws and regulations do not apply to them.
AirBnB has done much the same thing.  For example, they are only now creating a way for hosts to charge sales tax in jurisdictions where sales tax is required for all vacation rentals.  Their policy helped tens of thousands of homeowners who do not pay the required taxes to compete unfairly with those who do, because the latter had to inflate their room rates to cover taxes while the former did not.  There isn't anything you buy in the US where sales tax isn't charged as a separate line item rather than rolled into the price, if it applies.  AirBnb knew that very well and decided to side with those who want to flout the law.  By contrast, VRBO, TripAdvisor/Flipkey and similar sites have always given hosts a way to break out sales tax apart from the room rate.

In the Uber example, the agent has a duty to tell the client what activities are definitely or probably not covered by certain insurance.  I call that prudence and honesty, not "scaring" the client.  If they say something is covered when it isn't, that is a lawsuit waiting to happen.  Anyone who drives a car for pay where they don't have written assurance that this is covered by their insurance risks losing everything they own in case of a serious accident.  Deborah is therefore perfectly right to be careful, in my opinion.
Marcia Yudkin
www.yudkin.comGoshen
     From: Max Hartshorne <editorial at gonomad.com>
 To: Deborah Chandler <debchandler411 at gmail.com> 
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I really don't think UBER hasn't thought this whole insurance thing out...it would be very surprising for a company valued at $53 billion to not know the work-around for car insurance for their drivers. I think your agent is just scaring you.-----------------------Max HartshorneEditorGoNOMAD.com TravelP.O. Box 49 Mountain Rd.South Deerfield, MA 01373413-624-6640www.gonomad.com Writer's Guidelines    



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From: "Deborah Chandler" <debchandler411 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Drive for Uber? Or ride with them?

Hi all,Well, I have not received a personal reply email from Uber about the situation, but I received this text tonight (likely sent to drivers throughout the entire region), in case anyone else would like to show up. I will definitely be there.UBER: Meet an Uber representative tomorrow at the Residence Inn Marriott Springfield-Chicopee from 9–1PM! Come in and get your questions answered. See you then!Best,
 Deb

  
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