VIDEOS – After taxis, most platforms VTC show “silently” on Wednesday in central Paris. They are protesting against the government’s decision to tighten controls.
Each turn. After taxis last week, it is the Loti, that is to say, public transportation on demand, which manifest since 11 this morning at the Gare Montparnasse (Paris XIV) for a parade to Invalides. According to a police source, they would be mobilized over five hundred vehicles. No overflow can be reported at this time. VTC drivers are becoming more numerous but according to our reporter on site “they are struggling to form the procession with all the cars. They are always in Montparnasse. “
They support many platforms, including VTC Uber, in response to measures taken by the government to meet the taxis. Originally this call, Joseph Francis, president of the association Alternative Mobility Transport (AMT), which includes a dozen capability transport companies, called Loti, a thousand employees, told AFP that it would “a silent march because we are mourning.”
the association protests against the “turnaround” of Manuel Valls on Thursday called for “open a dialogue to find a way out”, but after a meeting with taxis “Declar (e) (Friday) that our profession is illegal.” Manuel Valls received Thursday night during nearly three hours all taxi organizations were mobilized for three days, especially against the misuse of LOTI vehicles. The Prime Minister promised the “incessant controls” to “fraud” and a strengthening in 12 departments of controls on VTC. A follow-up meeting of these checks will be held each week with the mediator, the PS deputy Laurent Grandguillaume.
The end of the VTC platforms?
But the fear of Loti is no longer power while using internet booking platforms like Uber, after sending letters of formal notice to twenty VTC platforms including insisting on the issue of LOTI transit licenses, the government feels unduly used by VTC. “It seems that the platforms no longer have the right to work with (carriers) LOTI” which could lead to “thousands of people pointing at the employment center,” has indeed worried CEO Driver-Private Yan Hascoet.
The AMT Association therefore request “to open a real debate for compensation of taxi licenses in order to exist. “We demand a moratorium and a round table to find a real solution for all, not scoops,” said he said. “It is not by indulging in public as social peace pledge (including taxis) that it will solve the problem,” argued Joseph Francis.
The VTC want a relaxation of the conditions access to the license
This walk is open to all corporations transportation, taxis, bikes, and consumers, “he said. Uber platforms France, Chauffeur-Privé, fives and Snapcar have also relayed this appeal to their “partners”, have they told AFP. For their part, Marcel drivers platforms and Allocab and companies Black Cars and Driveforme, who rent cars to drivers of VTC, said support this initiative, as training centers for drivers of VTC and capability.
“Why the state can not redeem all taxi licenses
While the LOTI licenses were not intended to make VTC benefits” but the last four years, the conditions for access to the VTC license have ceased to be reviewed and tightened under the pressure of taxis, contradict common sense and the public interest, “says the company in Snapcar a document for partners which AFP obtained a copy. The VTC will be received Thursday by the Ombudsman, to discuss in particular the possibility of obtaining the license VTC through a simple multiple choice questions.
The VTC drivers boycott the event
The event does however, not unanimously. “All existing VTC organizations and are not known for this march there, drawn by applications. They ask for LOTI drivers to manifest on their behalf to ask the government to work illegally, which is a shame “, told AFP Farid Aïeche, Union operators of passenger transport (SETP ).
“Yes, we are threatened but Uber got us into this mess”
For his part the SCP-Unsa VTC, first union of drivers VTC established in November 2015, calls to boycott the gathering. “Yes, we are threatened, but that’s Uber got us into this mess and it is out of the question to be associated with this company,” told AFP the general secretary of the union, Sayah Baaroun. “We fell into a trap,” said the trade unionist, stressing that “many drivers are in debt for automobile loans thinking that this activity was especially profitable and legal.” “How do you want to live and build a future with a company that has no qualms about canceling your account network to stop receiving racing, which yesterday lowered prices without wanting to chat, do not pay a cent in France and brought a destructive model of our social values? “writes Unsa SCP-VTC in a statement. The mediator will therefore also address the thorny issue
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