Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Three Cheers for the SFCDA & Keep Those Photos Coming

The photos the drivers have been sending to the San Francisco Cab Drivers Association (SFCDA) are being used by insurance companies to warn drivers that they are not insured if they are driving for Lyft, Uber or the rest.

The photos are also being used as evidence in a suit filed by the Taxi Paratransit Association of California (TPAC)  against the California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) violation of the California Environmental Protection Act (CEQA).

Barry Korengold says,

"This data base has been an invaluable tool in our efforts to demonstrate the number of these vehicles and the negative impact that they've had on the environment."

Unfortunately, many drivers have recently eased off in sending in the photos. I confess to being the worst. I mean, it's a pain in the ass to keep the camera always ready to shoot whenever these miscreants turn up ... and they turn up endlessly. Cab driving is exhausting anyway. But there are more and more "S.H.I.T.S."(Smartphone Hailable Illegal Taxi Services) out there. There are an estimated five or six thousand active "tncs" woking every weekend and we need to document that fact.

The photos also help environmentalists understand that rather than taking cars off the road they are actually creating congestion and greenhouse gases.

So please keep the photos coming. For those of you who are new at shooting evil, contact Trevor Johnson at trevor@sfcda.org to find out how to upload the photos properly.

The important thing is to capture both the license plate and the symbol in the same shot – be it the pink mustache, the Uber U, the Sidecar sock or whatever.

I think it's past time to give the SFCDA the credit that they deserve. In my 30 years in the cab business I've belonged to or dealt with several cab driver organizations and the SFDCA has been by far the most effective and the most persistent of them all. They've fought for the cab drivers at the SFMTA, at the CPUC and now at the State Legislature.

So I want to give special thanks to Barry Korengold, Trevor Johnson, Jeffery Rosen, Francoise Spiegleman, Jam Khajvandi, the late Tori Lansdown and the rest for all the work they've done over the years without getting paid for it.

Three cheers! If we're still in the game we owe it to you guys.




9 comments:

  1. Photography is fun, getting assaulted, almost hit by vehicles , extorted and held against my will even more fun

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    1. What about retaliation from the regulatory personnels.

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  2. Its tough to be on the road taking photos of SHITs and most of the hide their signs. Sometimes take the plate with the phone in view is best option and use circular polarizer to clear the reflections.
    I had about 200 last time and so far about 250 in my memory card. I will put them up when I have enough time to spend. I am trying to make money to pay the rent first and keep the family under the roof.

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  3. http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-playbook-for-sabotaging-lyft

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  4. INSURANCE CARRIER NOTIFICATION
    Ride for Hire

    http://rideforhire.com/

    The private vehicles identified below have been observed in apparent commercial use as rides for hire. Upon this publication, insurance carriers are hereby notified that failure to investigate and/or take remedial action, as appropriate, may negate their right to refuse coverage in the event of an accident.


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    XCM3788 VA Black Toyota UNION STATION 8/17/14

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  5. Cock sucker cabbies, 99.9% of passenger experiences with you guys are negative. You guys drive like maniacs, steal, don't let passenger pay with cc, get mad if it's a short ride, your cabs smell like shit, you dont speak English, it's so unsafe to get into a cab because no one has a record people got in it. Wtf? If you can't beat them join them, you had a monopoly for the longest & now someone comes with a brighter idea and your mad? Fuck you!,

    Trevor Kalanick

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  6. It's too bad that you are too stupid to understand that insurance companies go by VIN not by license pates... but keep going! A for effort... F for stupidity.

    Senile Paul

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  8. Glad to see this post!

    I've been sending Lyft licenses to the data base, and I will continue to do so.
    But I keep wondering where and how they are being used. Are these licenses being submitted to the CA Insurance Commissioner? Or to insurance companies? Can someone please clarify?

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