Uber’s latest partnership and driver status scams promise free education while defrauding customers and drivers.

Justin La Plante

One of Uber’s first partnership scams was a fraudulent lending sceme promoted by the ‘Uber Military’ program which defrauded 1100 US military personnel. The enlisted men and women were not allowed to deploy on active duty and retain their auto lending policies as Uber’s Lending company in the program would not honor the policies when soldiers were deployed. Uber’s lending partner in the program Santander Consumer USA was ordered to pay over $9.35 million dollars in settlement. Since 2015 both Uber and Lyft have removed ‘Safe Rides’ fees after a series…

Editorial, The self contradiction of Rideshare drivers

Justin La Plante

What amazes me to this day is how exactly a person agrees to contracting that eliminates their right to organize, to petition, to action their employer in court and eliminates their right to be treated with any accountability by the employer, yet they attempt to organize and petition that employer.   But they do not petition that employer for the most deadly aspects of any wrong doing. Like the record increase in assaults on customers, the over all lack of comprehensive insurance or MAYBE changing these same fraudulent terms in…

Editorial; Dismantling Tabloid, A short lesson in falsified claims

Justin La Plante

This is an article which was published by News.com.au   News.com.au is a publication which maintains tabloid and click bait ad stream on it’s pages.  In it’s ‘about’ section it claims to be owned by News Corp. The article was posted to a Facebook group that I also administrate.  I removed the article when fact checking showed that it’s title was directly contradicted by the article content. The group member who posted the article then began a trolling campaign to decry my actions and claim that I had wrongfully removed…

Petition, US lawsuit against Uber and Lyft

Justin La Plante

Ride Safe is proud to host this petition request on behalf of the vetted and insured commercial transportation providers of the United States. Several Taxi, limo and Bus operators have requested of Ride Safe to provide a means of legal action against Rideshare companies for proliferating  fraudulent and uninsured services. Because Rideshares have contributed to the largest increase of commercial transportation crime ever recorded since the invention of motor transportation, it is time for them to be held accountable.  If not by the law, then by those who uphold and…

Business community coming to grips with dangers of the “gig” economy.

Justin La Plante

Business insider recently published this article sighting several public safety issues and the negative economic impact of Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft. Uber made no response or comment concerning the article. Representatives from Lyft responded claiming that Rideshares have reduced the number of DUIs and promote service to areas that are under served. However the actual number of incidents reported involving DUIs has risen sharply and remained ABOVE numbers reported BEFORE the introduction of Rideshares to the larger transportation market in 2010. Ride Safe has regularly sampled screen captures from…