Sentences with phrase «last drivers for»

This is due to their long - standing popularity with all types of consumers, and the reason for this consistency is obvious; when built right, sedans are able to last drivers for long stretches of time with all the durability, versatility and innovation to get any job done right.

Not exact matches

For the last 14 years, fans have voted Dale Earnhardt Jr. the most popular driver in Nascar.

Last month, a bill that would cap the number of for - hire vehicles given permits — including the cars of people who drive for Uber and Lyft — was defeated after vocal protests by Uber drivers and its supporters.

Obama raised new questions about the project during a trip to Asia late last week, saying it would not lower gas prices for U.S. drivers but would allow Canada to «pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else.»

Transport for London (TfL) shocked the Silicon Valley firm last month by deeming it unfit to run a taxi service and refusing to renew its license, citing its approach to reporting serious criminal offenses and background checks on drivers.

Last month, Uber announced the company will also start letting its employees cash out their earnings whenever they want via an Instant Pay option debuting for its San Francisco drivers.

Meanwhile, Lyft rival Uber started to offer car leasing in November 2013, and revamped the program last July with more flexibility for drivers and fewer penalties if they decide to end their lease.

He gently taps on their window, because last time he was here filling in for a driver, he rang the doorbell and accidentally woke up a baby.

But to turn this explosion of entrepreneurial energy into a long - lasting economic driver for Canada, we've got to scale more of these startups into large businesses.

Last month, Uber's local marketing team in Lyon, France ran a promotion for a partnership with French website Avions de Chasse, in which Uber users could book cars with attractive female drivers.

For the last few months, Uber has been dealing with sexual harassment allegations, an exodus of key executives, and a video of its CEO berating a driver.

«It's essentially been a flattish market for the last five years; now 2017 is plus 20 percent, that's an amazing rebound,» said Bruno Lannes, Shanghai - based partner at Bain, adding lower pricing and government support were key drivers.

For example, the Australian Taxation Office last week ordered Uber drivers to collect and pay a goods and services tax (GST) that applies to firms providing «taxi travel services.»

The fee — which accounts for about $ 1.50 to $ 3 of a each fare and is not shared with drivers — was raised by between 15 and 50 cents per ride last week, depending on the city.

Last month, the city council approved a separate set of regulations that requires that drivers display the companies they work for in their cars (such as Lyft's pink mustache), mentions fingerprinting as part of the background check requirements, and outlines restricted areas at the airport and during large festivals.

Besides bribing drivers for last - minute wardrobe add - ons, there's little that's scrappy about the hyper - polished Northwestern University team.

Also hogging headlines last week was Larry Ellison, who announced last Thursday that he was ceding the driver's seat at Oracle - the software firm he founded and has led for the past 37 years.

Regulator Transport for London last Friday deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and decided not to renew its license to operate when it expires on Sept. 30, citing the firm's approach to reporting serious criminal offenses and background checks on drivers.

In claiming fare reduction would mean more work for drivers, the San Francisco based company cut its prices by 15 percent last week.

She worked as an Uber driver for just over two months last year.

People's Uber has also prompted a battle with Didi Kuaidi, which last month started its own service for private drivers, called Kuaiche.

[6] Even though the tax cuts generally weren't in Wall Street earnings forecasts last year, prospects for tax cuts probably were an important driver of 2017's stock market returns.

The ruling ordered Uber to reimburse Barbara Ann Berwick $ 4,152.20 in expenses and other costs for the roughly eight weeks she worked as an Uber driver last year.

In May last year, The Economic Times reported that State Bank of India had suspended car loans for Uber and Ola taxis, following loan defaults of about Rs 120 crore due to non-payment of dues by drivers.

That includes its ongoing technological efforts to get rid of the most costly part of its business model (the driver) via self - driving car tech; targeting 2020 for a demo of a flying car project called Uber Elevate; and, last week, announced it was pushing into the trucking space with Uber Freight.

«Having hosted and worked alongside America's Road Team many times at my Jet Express terminal and at industry events, I can confidently say that these are some of the finest drivers and representatives in our industry,» said ATA Chairman Kevin Burch, president of Jet Express Inc. «Throughout the last few days, these professionals have demonstrated the positive image and hardworking attitude that the trucking industry is known for and I'm proud that they will represent us for the next two years and beyond.»

«For the last four years the household sector has been the key driver of Canada's economic growth.

Jones appeared to have big plans for Uber as recently as last month, when he posted a note on Facebook promising to give drivers better support, clearer communication and an improved driver app.

That's why recent changes to credit reports last month may lower rates for a handful of drivers.

Oft - cited giant of the sharing economy, Uber, has taken their ride - sharing service a step further with «UberRUSH», using GPS enabled apps to connect drivers to ecommerce customers in real time for fast, last - mile delivery.

While «outsourcing» for low - cost labour may have motivated outward investment in the last decade, the new driver of investment is clearly domestic economic growth in Asia.

Last year, for example, a study by Stanford University found that drivers often had trouble taking the wheel again after letting a computer drive, even momentarily.

For the last two years or so, I've been speaking out about diversity and immigration as key drivers of Canada's prosperity.

And now the elder went over the many agonies: to suffer hunger and cold, to all but kill oneself through overwork, to be kicked by a cruel driver, to be abused by unskilled persons whom not a single step you take will satisfy, yet who blame and punish the horse for their own blunders, and then at last some winter, when old age has come on, to be driven out into the bare woods.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

After pastoring a small church in Hemet, CA, for six years and teaching at another seminary for five, these days I'm a youth worker for a church here in CO, an assistant professor at Rocky Mountain Bible College & Seminary, and a bus driver (the last pays for the other two.)

And he has signed his favorite driver: Mario Andretti, the national champion who won the 500 for Andy last year.

Race director Charlie Whiting said the start rules haven't changed for 20 years, and that there have been only two cases (the other being Daniel Ricciardo in Japan last year) of drivers positioning their cars outside the grid boxes.

It also snapped a 112 - race dry spell for Richard Childress Racing, whose last victory occurred November 2013 — also at Phoenix with former RCR driver Kevin Harvick, who's since moved to Stewart - Haas Racing.

Last month, as he prepared to travel on the Baltimore Ravens» charter to Atlanta for a preseason game, the team's radio voice handed his driver's license to a TSA agent.

Last summer, pushed by drivers, NASCAR went with a lower downforce aerodynamic rules package for this season that better allows drivers to showcase their skills.

Just one driver on the 2017 grid raced in the Audi Sport TT Cup last year, so that could make for some feisty racing.

A brief rain shower on the morning of last weekend's Malaysia Grand Prix left some parts of the grid wet, and for the drivers starting on the wet part of the grid, that's obviously a disadvantage.

He was as a development driver for Sauber in 2014, Renault in 2016 and then promoted to the Renault reserve driver role last season.

Now imagine how crazy it would be if it was the last round of the season and those two drivers were going head - to - head for the championship.

«The last four or five races we lost 20, 30 points that probably could help my classification in the drivers» standing and also the constructors» standing for the teams.

Where last season saw tensions arise over the battle for the 2017 title, this season presents wider ramifications that, when framed historically, could be considered the point in which one driver's career surpassed the others.

His signature at the Swiss outfit makes sense on several fronts - as a Ferrari junior driver who's had some impressive testing outings in F1 machinery last year, Leclerc's inclusion in the Alfa revolution at Sauber aligns with Ferrari's aim of having a place in F1 for it to develop young drivers.

He's no stranger to F1 machinery - he drove in four practice sessions for Haas last year, and this year took over testing duties for Ferrari in Hungary - after all, he is part of the Ferrari Driver Academy!

OK, it's meant to be for young drivers, but last year a 50 - year - old guy simply known as «Dragon» entered, so there's a precedent for really cool veterans to give it a go.