The Uber transport application opened this Wednesday the registration of drivers for registered vehicles Canelones, reported to The Observer company sources.
Although vehicles registered in the application were already circulating in this department, the drivers were linked to Montevideo. Now, they can be linked directly as Canelones drivers without having to open a sole proprietorship or take out the professional book.
The requirements requested by the company are: category E driver’s license or common license plus certificate of good conductproperty book of the vehicle registered in Canelones (which cannot be a pre-2006 model), RUT cardY SOA insurance.
To register as Uber drivers, users can register at this link. In addition to car drivers, they can do motorcycles for the Uber Flash service, which allows objects to be moved in the department.
The version of the Intendancy of Canelones
When consulted in this regard, the director of Traffic of the Canelones Administration, Marcelo Metediera, warned: “Uber is not enabled in Canelones, it is not covered by current regulations and no one has contacted us for this new stage”. The communist leader told The Observer that as long as it remains outside the regulations, “It will continue to be subject to sanctions” through fines and removal of license plates from vehicles.
However, Metediera took the opportunity to pass on a message to the multinational, opening the doors for negotiate a possible modality of Uber Taxia mechanism announced weeks ago by the company so that the Montevideo taximeter can take trips with the application.
“Work situations (with Montevideo) are different”, raised the head of Transit when asked why transport has not been regulated through applications. “Here there are 154 taxis that work with fixed stops, it is not the same as in Montevideo, where they circulate freely. If they do not adapt to these forms of work, it is not possible to enable it, but neither has anyone contacted us. to treat it,” he said.
Uber drivers are prohibited from accepting trips in Canelones, although they can have that department as a destination, as long as the route is requested from Montevideo. It is for this reason that a good part of the control of the Canary Islands was concentrated at the time in the Carrasco International Airport, given the proliferation of trips that picked up passengers who had just arrived in the country.
