goCatch

2020年4月5日

非常大的文本大小ridehailing服务一旦由美国一些最知名的投资者指责行业巨大的乳房使其司机违反法律和逃避警察在具有里程碑意义的新诉讼。GoCatch曾经被亿万富翁詹姆斯封隔器和对冲基金经理阿历克斯·特恩布尔在其股东,正在寻求损害赔偿它声称Uber对其业务通过允许司机运输乘客没有获得正确的许可,和分发工具阻止警察抓住司机使未经授权的旅行。超级已被其规模较小的本地竞争对手GoCatch告上法庭。信贷:瑞安·斯图尔特这些指控,诉状中包含上周晚些时候在维多利亚时代的最高法院,索赔的基础形式的数百万美元的薪酬被GoCatch要求。该公司表示超级支付罚款和允许操作司机知道他们不是正规的“试图扩大规模…之前UberX面临类似的拥有权服务”的竞争。超级最初只允许乘客请求授权出租车和hire-cares,但推出UberX拥有权服务在2014年2月。服务不是合法化在任何国家,直到2015年底,和超级偶尔会罚款给司机操作ride-shares。GoCatch推出了其竞争对手GoCar服务在2016年2月,国家开始后不久明确允许的拥有权运营商。广告GoCatch,向法院提交的文件中表示,超级一直打算招募UberX司机知道将无法赚钱如果他们被迫“满足合规要求适用于每一个澳大利亚州”或处理许可规则,需要投入相当多的时间。 In a statement, Uber said it would be "denying liability and will vigorously defend the claim". "Uber Australia denies that it engaged in any inappropriate conduct at any stage," the statement reads. The Herald has previously reported Uber had paid for fines, including some as high as $1700, handed out to UberX drivers in Australia. The company's senior executives have described the fines as "crazy". Uber has since become the largest ride-sharing operator in the country. A Roy Morgan study released in February found 93 per cent of riders who had used a ride-share service in a three month period had used Uber, while only two per cent had used GoCatch. Uber's smaller rival had been a significant player in the industry until recently, raising $1.2 million in 2018 as part of an attempt to list on the Australian Securities Exchange. Plaintiff lawfirm Maurice Blackburn has also indicated it will pursue a class action against Uber on behalf of licensed taxi drivers and hire-care operators who lost income because of its UberX service. Last April, GoCatch said it was considering launching legal action against Uber after the ABC's Four Corners program reported the American company was using software called Surfcam to see where its competitors' cars were and approach drivers in an attempt to lure them away. GoCatch chief executive Andrew Campbell did not respond to a request for comment. Last year, however, he said it was "appalling" that Uber had "used hacking technologies to steal our data and our drivers". "I think our investors would be very angry to learn that Uber's been allowed to get away this sort of behaviour that has no doubt had an impact on their investment," he said. But documents lodged with the court on March 31 also include allegations that Uber used a software called Greyball starting in 2014 to identify and deny rides to users suspected of "being transport compliance or regulatory enforcement officers" and "assisting UberX [drivers] to evade ... transport compliance officers".