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Testimony by Kadir Gaurab, Yellow Cab Driver, on TLC Compensation for WAV Vehicles
6:02:54
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Kadir Gaurab, a Yellow Cab driver, testifies about issues with the TLC's compensation for driving wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs). He expresses concern over the cut to the $1 WAV fee and the TLC's failure to fully compensate him for WAV trips, receiving only $512 for over 3,100 trips last year.
- Gaurab is owed over $2,500 by the TLC for driving a WAV vehicle
- He argues that cutting the WAV fee incentive may lead to fewer drivers choosing to lease WAV vehicles
- He calls for more funding for the $1 trip program to maintain incentives for drivers to use WAV vehicles
Kadir Gaurab
6:02:54
Yeah.
6:02:56
Hi.
6:02:57
My name is Kadir Gaurab.
6:02:58
I started driving Yellow Cab a few months before the pandemic.
6:03:01
I know the TLC cut the $1 wave fee, but I am owed over $2,500 be because the TLC did which claimed it would get I would get if I drove a wave.
6:03:14
The TLC did not follow through on word.
6:03:17
I completed 31 over 3,100 trips last year, and they only compensated me for $512.
6:03:25
And I think the TLC and the city council should give more funding to the $1 trip because as a lease driver, many lease drivers will choose not to lease a WAVE vehicle because they'll see it as more of a burden.
6:03:39
They'll they'd rather lease the hybrid instead of the WAVE because there's less of an incentive, and you took away the incentive.
6:03:48
And so if they if if they choose to drive hybrids and not waves, there'll be less waves hitting the streets.
6:03:55
Thank you very much and have a good day.