DRIVE A2B July 2018
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Interstate<br />
News<br />
NSW & QLD CTP<br />
INSURANCE<br />
by Denis Doherty<br />
TASMANIA<br />
Uber is a ride-sharing app which allows smartphone<br />
users to set their location and destination without<br />
making any phone calls and with a cashless system.<br />
Uber Tasmania manager Lucas Groeneveld said Uber<br />
was looking forward to providing North Tasmania with<br />
a safer, more affordable and more reliable transport.<br />
“There is a couple of ways it will have a really<br />
positive impact on the community with access to<br />
transportation in the region,” Mr Groeneveld said.<br />
“For locals who are out and about in the region on a<br />
Friday and Saturday night it will be a safe ride home<br />
and on the tourist side, access for tourists to help<br />
them explore the region,” he said.<br />
He said data showed almost 40,000 people had<br />
opened up the Uber App across Launceston,<br />
Devonport and Burnie.<br />
“40 drivers have passed the background check, been<br />
approved by the Department of State Growth and<br />
passed a vehicle inspection and are ready to go.”<br />
THE Gold Coast could be set for a taxi war<br />
after NSW slashed compulsory third party<br />
insurance premiums for cabbies and an<br />
alternative ridesharing group opened business<br />
in the area.<br />
The move by NSW, which will see the amount<br />
of CTP Fund Levy cabbies pay match the<br />
amount paid by ridesharing services, has led<br />
to calls from the Taxi Council of Queensland<br />
to match the move.<br />
From 1 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2018</strong>, the Taxi CTP fund levy<br />
component of greenslips will be reduced from<br />
an average of $580 to $142 in Sydney and<br />
$680 to $110 in country NSW.<br />
NSW Taxi Council CEO, Martin Rogers<br />
welcomed the decision by the Minister<br />
of Finance, Services and Property Victor<br />
Dominello saying the reduction would put<br />
taxis on a more level playing field in the point<br />
to point transport sector.<br />
While the move may put Tweed cabbies on<br />
a higher playing field than their Gold Coast<br />
counterparts, TCQ CEO Blair Davies said the<br />
group would ideally like to see Queensland<br />
adopt a model in place in Victoria which would<br />
see CTP payments plummet even further,<br />
“In Queensland it costs the owner of a taxi<br />
licence $4460 a year to cover CTP while an<br />
Uber driver is paying only $580,” he said.<br />
36 <strong>DRIVE</strong> <strong>A2B</strong> magazine · <strong>July</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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