Sentences with phrase «of hiring a driver»

The companies are researching the benefits and drawbacks of hiring their drivers as employees, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Did the truck company have a history of hiring drivers with drug problems, criminal records, or poor driving records?

Not exact matches

The company spent the past year heavily investing in their mobile strategy by offering text updates via their mobile app and hiring thousands of additional delivery drivers.

In September, London's transport authority declined to renew Uber's private - hire operator license over concerns about its vetting of drivers, its under - reporting of crimes by drivers, and the tactics it has used to undermine regulators in the past.

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.

Sure, ridesharing may make it easier for people to hire a designated driver after a night of drinking, but that reliability may also may inspire them to drink more and become belligerent or disruptive.

«These hires join our leadership team at an exciting time and we believe they will be strategic drivers of DSC's continuing success.»

«One of the most important drivers of hiring and compensation trends will be the implementation of technology,» the report said.

Uber «s 40,000 drivers, representing around one in three of all private hire vehicles on the British capital's roads, can continue to take passengers until the appeals process is exhausted, which could take years.

«Very often we hire drivers from school and train them on our own values and way of doing things,» he says.

Drivers for hire can point to an independent measure of their driving skill and customer service.

The online retailer is testing all manner of methods to speed up shopping, from aerial drones to one - push «Dash» buttons that place instantaneous orders to hiring part - time drivers to make Uber - like deliveries.

Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi - hailing service Uber on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the «illegal use of vehicles for hire», police said.

The 37 - page letter describes how Uber hired people to spy on executives of overseas rivals, used undercover agents to impersonate taxi drivers, and scraped competitors» information from the Internet.

Put all these factors in the mix and the ATA believes that trucking will need to hire an average of 89,000 drivers per year over the next decade.

While it would in theory allow it to hire more drivers including applicants it previously rejected, and therefore continue to compete with taxis and rival Lyft, the company told the Journal that it would only affect a small number of applicants.

Uber hosted a «jobs event» for prospective and current drivers to showcase how many New York residents» jobs would be cut if the vehicle cut were to take effect, and also ran TV ads, bought banner ads on websites, sent out direct mailers to constituents of City Council members who are proponents of the proposed legislation, and even reportedly tried to persuade the Rev. Al Sharpton to oppose the for - hire - vehicle cap.

Raising unprecedented amounts of money to outspend competitors, hiring key political PR experts to throw dirt on the taxi industry, and eventually ditching drivers to use self - driving cars.

Eric Holder has been working on behalf of Uber since at least last June, when he and his firm were hired to advocate on behalf of Uber to lawmakers concerning using fingerprints as part of background checks on drivers.

Grab's desired outcome was simple: remove the threat of its immediate rival and beef up its business with new hires and drivers.

While he hired a new chief operating officer and a top legal officer, other executives have departed the company, including culture head Frances Frei and head of driver product Aaron Schildkrout.

According to Bloomberg, Google intends to create an Alphabet - run company dedicated to essentially competing with Uber, proffering cars that can chaffeur you from place to place without the hassle of hiring scores of drivers (according to SFGate, companies like Uber and Lyft experience a high employee turnover).

The Waterfront's owner, energetic Susan Walcott, recognized Emerson and quickly pried out of us our purpose for hiring a Taxi Driver of the Year.

Red Bull are notorious for really, really hating anyone getting close - ups of their car (it's a good job they don't draw attention to themselves by doing things like, I du n no, hiring young and exciting drivers), so they've come up with a solution.

He takes the pain relief medicine, buys the (un-needed) car, but still has need of surgery; after ten years, he can't drive the cars because he hasn't performed the surgery, he prefers to hire a driver, he still takes the pain relief drugs, he still feels the pains, he still needs the surgery, he has money, everyone urges him to fix his health issues, but he thinks he can still manage on with it.

Like many young drivers who fell off the ladder to F1 he went to race in prototypes, and impressed so much that Porsche hired him as part of it's return to LMP1 racing in 2014.

The NYC Council's new For - Hire Vehicle Committee met for the first time, and heard testimony from several people advocating for a cap on the number of livery drivers in the Big Apple.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Cuomo appeared to waffle on parts of the plan on Saturday, dodging questions about the proposal's affect on ordinary drivers and instead stressing the charging of for - hire vehicles.

The group has pushed for adding tolls to the currently free East River crossings, along with levying a $ 2.75 surcharge for drivers entering Manhattan at 60th Street, and having for - hire vehicles pay some sort of surcharge in the area below 60th Street.

On Monday, Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey announced that New Jersey Transit would hire 40 new bus drivers as part of his proposed state budget.

For instance, we will hire the services of technicians, supervisors, accounts clerks, administrators, drivers and a host of others.»

One of the suspects, Damilola Omolegbe contacted one Abimbola Olaore, a driver of Toyota Camry with registration number KJA 164 EX in order to hire his vehicle from Alimoso in Lagos to Igbogila on an agreed fee.

Instead of hiring a bus driver, it is alleged Depas hired one of the three monitors to drive the bus.

He never hired a driver, instead commuting from Long Island to attend meetings and tend to his menagerie of skyscrapers until he retired from the business at the age of 98.

Amid the ongoing debate over whether to allow ride hailing services outside of New York City, the Black Car Fund has launched a statewide advertising campaign that is aimed at building awareness of what it does for for - hire drivers and passengers.

SheRides / SheHails was launched in 2014, but questions regarding the legality of hiring only women as drivers forced the service to go on hiatus.

«When asked, the driver, one Dauda Ezekiel of Gubuchi Village, Makarfi Local Government Area of the State, said he was hired to transport the occupant to an unidentified location.

The head of the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission said that for - hire drivers shouldn't have to prove they can speak and understand English.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Joined by executives from Lyft and Uber, County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced an innovative solution to allow ride - sharing companies to operate in Westchester while increasing rider safety by creating a voluntary pool of fingerprinted drivers from which companies like Lyft, Uber and others could hire.

New York State also is hiring and looking to expand its fleet of drivers.

The head of the agency noted that the number of for - hire vehicles on city streets has swollen to 130,000 from 50,000 in 2011, while the number of certified drivers has doubled to 180,000 from 90,000 — with «the overwhelming majority» of the growth owing to apps like Uber and Lyft.

He says one of the «key drivers» will be how many new workers are hired in a continued depressed economy.

Those challenges all require you to address the enormous and unchecked growth in the number of drivers and vehicles in the for - hire sector.»

Mark Ilacqua, vice president and general manager of Syracuse Regional Airport Taxi, said his company would interview Century's airport drivers and planned to hire many of them.

A man in a pickup truck speaks with a passenger about whether another man is an assassin the first hired to help with suicide when a shot rings out, breaks the windshield and punctures the driver's throat; the driver dies and we see a large patch of blood on his throat and splattered on his chest.

Enter Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), a hit - man hired by a mysterious group of mafia men represented throughout the film by a man called Driver (Richard Jenkins).

Ryan O'Neal headlines as a quiet, moody getaway driver for hire, who finds himself the obsession of «The Detective», played by Bruce Dern.

In this powerful true story set in 1980, a down - on - his - luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day.

Martin Blank (Cusack) became a hired hitman directly out of high school, leaving behind all his friends, and especially his prom date, Debi (Minnie Driver).