Uber Says UK Drivers Will Take Mandatory Breaks (cnet.com)

Uber is introducing a new policy on drivers' hours across the UK next week, which it says will help to increase safety for drivers and passengers. From a report: Drivers for the ride-hailing service will have to take a continuous six-hour break after the time spent on trips with passengers and on their way to pickups reaches 10 hours. The company announced the decision Tuesday, saying it believes this move is an industry first in the UK. The company has been criticized in the past over its handling of workers' rights and has faced resistance in the UK. Uber lost its license to operate in London in September. In October, a London court ruled that its drivers should be classified as employees instead of as contractors

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Never reach it

[PReDiToR]

The time they're calculating doesn't include sat around waiting for a job, and that is the way their drivers spend a lot of their time.

There's a reason they can get you a cab in less time than a proper taxi, and that is it. They are sitting around empty, being tempted to pick up illegally to get work.

Unfortunately for the customers and other road users, if they run into someone or something whilst going along a one way street the wrong way (they're famous for it over here) and they have picked up a passenger without a booking through the phone program, they're not insured!

Customers need to learn and understand all the crazy things about this toxic company and their predatory pricing, oversupply, complete disregard for road safety and the disdain for properly regulated authorities investigating their illegal business.

Can't wait to see the back of them in the UK.

industry first?

[Cederic]

It is an industry first indeed. The rest of the UK taxi industry obey the fucking law.
https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hou...

10 hours a day, not 10 hours then a 6 hour break. Fucking uber.

Re:industry first?

[whoever57]

Amazing. Let's re-write the headline:
Uber says that UK drivers must get closer to complying with the law.

Re:make uber drivers take the knowledge test!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wrong kind of taxi.
Black cab (the kind you hail or get from a taxi rank) drivers in central London need to take the knowledge.
Minicab (the kind that you call a dispatch office for) drivers do not.

Uber is a minicab service in the UK

Re:2 set's of logs just like truckers

[Computershack]

Here in the UK we did away with paper logs and trucks are fitted with digital tachographs which record all vehicle movements. The driver has a digital smartcard they use with the tachograph which records all data and the tachograph will continue to record data itself if used without a card. The card stores at least 28 days of data, usually a few months, and the tachograph up to a year. Both can be read at the roadside.