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Million dollar coverage. I am going to emphasize mr. Dolans points, public is going to be paying for these injuries. No doubt about it. One of these tncs could have a minimum of 15,000 of Liability Insurance and if he crashes himself, or hurts himself, public is going to be paying for it. Mark my words. What is your name . Richard hibols. Thank you. My name is namshirm a and i am driving for the yellow 20 years. I am not here to praise you mta because they did so much damage to the taxi business, and you start inaudible and you think about the mta revenue, but they will stop over the inaudible how are we going to trust you . Before us and we actually used to go to each taxi company inaudible we are going to the airport, but all for 2, this is ridiculous, before she lied, and your mta investigators are making inaudible to confuse inaudible not working inaudible they do not. Thank you so much. Want us to fight for our rights ub ....
And you are traders to your country and your city. Thank you sir. Next speaker. Definitely agree with that. My name is Trevor Johnson and i am the technical director for the San FranciscoCab Driver Association and we are the ones collecting the license plate data on the tnc vehicles but i would like to let you guys know that as a dispatcher i can say that with the solid authority of the 30 odd accessible vehicles in the fleet only about 4 to 6 are going on per shift. That is horrendous, that is, very shameful. We have collected over 4,000 plates, over the last six months, and Major Insurance Companies are actually accessing our data to Research Insurance fraud. Start investigating and pro ....
Tonight, 56yearold john mcnell is hospitalized and in critical condition, after being struck by a hit and run driver in fremont. His daughter is frustrated that police have little to go on. And shes pleading for your help. The clue that police do have and the award that could lead to that arrest. George kiriyama joins us live with the latest. Reporter police want you to be on a lookout for a black camry with damage on the right front bumper. His daughter flew all the way to be with him here. And shes taking it quite hard. Its hard because his life changed instantly. And of course, because i love him and were family, my life has changed, too. Reporter alexis has spent the past seven days at her fathers hospital bedside, hoping and praying he will wake up. The strongest man in your life for your whole life. And to see him in that bed and hes helpless, its very hard. Reporter it was about 5 45 last thursday morning, her father was riding his bike to work. He was in the bike lane going sou ....
Everyone and you have heard that there are three areas and i think is safety, and the liability and the insurance that we talked about and congestion. And these are all things that should be and i think that obviously are from your remarks, or concerns of the city, and i hope that this will carry forth after today that things change and we want to keep this taxi company viable and we are not afraid of competition but we need a little Playing Field and that we have direly need your support, thank you very much. Thank you. John hann, dave snyder, tony slay, seth berm an, david smith, walter durly and david barlow. I am a yellow cab driver and i have been driving in the city for 18 years and i waited to get a free med dallon for 16 years and the city did decide to sell it for 250,000. And i borrowed money from all over to get this down payment to pay it for the federal credit bank and then unfortunately, you know, our business is not ....
Out here. And if new york and new orleans and all of these other cities can shut them down, why cant we . Tmc is just another name for taxi and they do exactly what we do we pick them up and we charge them and we drop them off. Please dont get it confused we are not blind, you are not blind, and tnc drivers do not have this. This is what a taxi driver has to have on top of everything else, experience and skills. Dont get it confused. The industry is dying, and it is gapsing for its last breath and be regulating an unregulated business, if you regulate us, regulate them exactly the same, no difference. Thank you. Thank you supervisor, mar for having this meeting, we appreciate it very much. I am a medallion holder in San Francisco and i have been driving a cab for 24 years. And i am going tell you something now that the taxi industry that the companies will go out of business within a year if you dont stop these people. They are dri ....