After taxis, VTC show – Le Point

This is a kind of return game. After the first manifestations of the taxis that led to last week’s decision by the Government of certain measures. It is the turn of VTC and public transport scrolling. Several hundred drivers Loti transport (public transport on demand) are expected Wednesday from 11:00 to Montparnasse station in Paris for a parade to Invalides, does said Tuesday from the organizers.

The event will attract the attention of public authorities to the potentially disastrous consequences for the sector, closely linked to the VTC platforms (cars with driver). “It will be a silent march, because we are in mourning,” said Joseph Francis, president of the association Alternative Mobility Transport (AMT), which includes a dozen companies Loti, a thousand employees. He asked to be received by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who, after three days of mobilization taxis, promised last week of “incessant controls” to “fraud” and a strengthening in 12 departments of controls on VTC including the misuse of Loti vehicles required by law to carry at least two people.

A mobilization that is not humanity

The fear is of Loti not being able to use the internet at all booking platforms, companies that support their movement. The Loti want to explain “the full extent that these measures will have,” said Joseph Francis, evoking a “social plan” if they no longer have access to the platforms, which will affect other companies (car rental , insurers, banks …) “I think the government made a quick decision, brutal, it does not measure the sector’s economic maturity,” he warned. “We call a moratorium and a round table to find a real solution for everyone, not of scoops,” said he said. “It is not by indulging in public as a guarantee of social peace (with taxis) that it will solve the problem,” he argued.

This mobilization occurs while that entry to the profession of VTC is de facto suspended since 1 January, governmental misconduct text on training. The event, however, is not unanimous. “All existing VTC organizations and are not known for this walk there, elaborated by applications. They ask for Loti drivers to demonstrate their behalf to ask the government to work illegally, which is a shame “, told AFP Farid Aïeche, the Union of operators of passenger transport (SETP ).