Sentences with phrase «working drivers who»

As Darren Turner, the works driver who helped develop this car, had already warmed the tyres for us and time is marching on, there doesn't seem any point mucking about: 820bhp it is!

Not exact matches

But Earnest says that drivers who work for both platforms make more on Uber.

I am healthy and I can have more than one job if needed, but they have stopped working and were counting on a certain pension every month, but that has been cut too,» the driver, who's originally from Crete and didn't want to give his name, said.

It works with millions of drivers — who it insists are contractors, not employees — but no matter what the term, there are a lot of people affected by the company's decisions and actions.

Armstrong has a driver who takes him to work every day, allowing him to get things done throughout his hour - long commute.

Hossam Yossri, who also works at McGuinness Management in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, told Gothamist that taxi drivers keep quitting, abandoning their vehicles to defect to Uber.

Founded in 2007 by Zimmer and co-founder Logan Green, Lyft's business model is fairly straighforward, even if it operates in a legal gray area: The company recruits and (background - checks) city car owners to become become part - time taxi drivers, who set the hours they wish to work.

Yesterday, he was caught in a video upbraiding a driver for the company who complained about falling rates, saying he had lost money working with the company.

To play «backseat DJ,» you first need to connect your Spotify account with your Uber profile; when you request a ride, a music bar will appear at the bottom of the Uber app and you can select a playlist from your Spotify account while you wait for your car to show (although this only works if you get a music - enabled car, a detail that's apparently stressing out Uber drivers with older vehicles who fear they'll be penalized for not offering the service).

The rise in contract workers, such as Uber drivers, or those who work temporary positions for companies means that many U.S. workers are not protected by these laws.

The new California «Uber for kids» companies claim there are benefits to working with them for drivers who can meet their loftier standards.

Perea, who has worked as a driver for Uber and Lyft, tells Inc. it seems differences can be amplified to cause larger discrepancies for longer trips.

One driver of that is the Gen Xers and the millennials, who will not work in a hierarchical company.

Filmmaker Steven Schardt debuted Auto at Tribeca's Virtual Arcade, where viewers got to sit alongside Musay, an Ethiopian immigrant who can't find work as a traditional driver and must act as the safety driver for an automated vehicle.

However, Chen also said Uber drivers who have worked for the service since May 2014 must specifically opt out of an arbitration agreement in order to sue the company.

Searching for reasons behind an observed increase in the incidence of heart disease, medical researchers sifted through the health records of 31,000 men who worked for the London Transport Executive as drivers and conductors.

Roadie, the first on - the - way delivery network, puts unused capacity into passenger vehicles to work by connecting people who have items they need to send with drivers headed to the same destination.

Hiroomi Kinoshita, President & Chief Executive Officer at Four Link Systems, Inc., who's worked on the creation of next - generation smart vehicle since 2008, said he was also hoping to appeal to a younger generation of drivers who are less interested in cars than previous generations.

Uber launched the first salvo in the battle with a promoted Facebook post aimed at recruiting Lyft's drivers, offering $ 500 up front and $ 45 / hour to drivers currently working for Lyft who switch sides.

Chen also said Uber drivers who have worked for the service since May 2014 must specifically opt out of an arbitration agreement in order to sue the company.

Earlier Tuesday, the company emailed its drivers, who work as contractors, to let them know they would soon be allowed to take tips, which drivers had not been able to accept previously.

We looked at rates in South Dakota for our profiled driver, a single 30 year old male who drives and owns a 2011 Toyota Camry primarily for commuting to work.

Khosrowshahi, who took the helm in August after former CEO Travis Kalanick was asked to step down amid a litany of regulatory problems, driver and consumer scandals and court cases, pledged to make a clean break with past practices that have lead to accusations of a toxic work culture.

Uber drivers, many of them immigrants who work for the ride - hailing company on a freelance basis, were also upset.

Meet the women who have built businesses around their kids» schedules If you've been part of my world for a while you'll know that I had two small children and a husband that worked 10 + hours a day as a Fedex driver when I started my current business back in 2014.

Previously, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wrote on Facebook that the ride - hailing giant was working to identify drivers who might be stuck overseas in order to compensate them while they wait for the restrictions to be lifted.

The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

He then worked for 3 years as a truck driver, until he ran into an old college buddy who now worked for IBM, which was developing the Profits Infinity system.

That night, the man — who was a taxi driver and could not work without the use of both arms — asked God to reveal himself.

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Adam Driver, Paterson is about a bus driver who works and lives in Paterson, New Jersey — and who happens to be named PatDriver, Paterson is about a bus driver who works and lives in Paterson, New Jersey — and who happens to be named Patdriver who works and lives in Paterson, New Jersey — and who happens to be named Paterson.

She got her first driver's license 90 - years - ago by manipulating the legal system as a 12 - year - old, and hasn't stopped driving since (even learned a few tricks from a young Henry Ford, who worked with her grandfather.)

I remember there were some cases some time ago of Muslim taxi drivers who refused to give rides to customers carrying alcohol with them, or Muslims working at supermarkets who refused to shelf alcohol.

«We offer aggressive promotions to people who work in the casino industry, the taxi, Uber and Lyft drivers,» Ellis explains.

Beth works the night shift at a hospital in Illinois, where she is known for not only being a good, dependable driver, but someone who really cares about and connects with people.

With bemused mechanics looking on, the drivers work out over the clanging of tire irons and the hissing of air guns, exhorted by this charismatic Jack LaLanne for the big - rig set, a 43 - year - old who could pass for a decade younger.

He is a driver who has exposed himself as being too influenced by his own mindset in the past, but he seems to thrive on race weekends in which he turns up with focus and a positive mindset, it works for him.

Off topic I bet we haggle how much we pay the cleaners, window cleaners, coach drivers, waiters chefs in other words EVERYBODY who works at the Arsenal.Every transfer is a f *** ing saga.If you want the player for ** cksake pay up and stop wasting the supporters time.

Add on top of that the need to drive a certain way to make a strategy work, or how to deal with dirty air from other cars and you've got driver who have as much on their plates - if not more - than F1 drivers, albeit with much more disastrous consequences for getting it wrong.

There might also be some current midfield drivers who looked at what Hulkenberg achieved in 2015 and fancy a bit of it themselves if their F1 careers don't work out.

Crossing the line didn't mean his work was done, however, as he decided to pick up the stranded McLaren drivers of Niki Lauda and Alain Prost (who'd retired sometime earlier) and fans were treated to the awesome sight of the three of them bombing back to the pits without their helmets on.

Here was a great underdog story: A 28 - year - old from a working - class Michigan family — who only five years ago routinely had his credit card rejected when he tried to check into hotels — had just defeated the most dominating driver of this era.

On track, the drivers are well and truly the stars, but the unsung heroes are undoubtedly the hard - working mechanics who — as this video shows — will work all night to get a car out of the garage.

By the time Heineman was succeeded by Pete Ricketts in January, Nebraska was the only U.S. state where so - called Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before they were 16 — couldn't apply for a driver's license, student aid or a work permit.

With so many drivers in the mix it's incredibly difficult to try and work out all the various permutations of who needs to finish where in order to win.

Whether we offer help to an elder crossing the street, are courteous to the cashier at the supermarket or show respect to our own parents — whether we shout profanities at our fellow drivers, mistreat those who work for us, or bad - mouth our family and friends — each of our actions signal to our kids what is appropriate and acceptable behavior.

He added: «We want to give drivers, signallers and maintainers — the people who work on the railway — the best tools for a growing railway.»

App - based drivers NY1 spoke with, along with yellow taxi drivers who are already struggling to compete, said they don't think it's a plan that will work.

Sajid Javid, the current secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant who worked in the mills of the north before becoming a bus driver.

«I'm a fighter, someone who is ready to work their socks off» says Mr Khan, who grew up as the son of a bus driver on a council estate in the same Tooting constituency where he has served as MP since 2005.

His father, who came to Britain in the 1960s, was a bus driver and his mother made extra money working as a seamstress from home.