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TELL YOUR MP

TO STOP

TOUTING

END TOUTING

Contact your local MP and ask them to support this bill to amend the
Commercial Passenger Vehicle Industry Act - and end TOUTING.

Commercial passenger vehicles numbers of vehicles and drivers On November 13
doing rank and hail work are and making it almost impossible to Victorian MLCs
required under the regulations to earn a living wage.
have security cameras and GPS "But the situation out there has will VOTE
tracking on their vehicles.
become dangerous and we hear on the CPVI
Mr Barton says touting is a form more and more of women in
of rank and hail, yet very few of particular having bad experiences Amendment Bill
the drivers touting at the airport or in cars. This culture of cheap TO END
major events were operating taxis. is creating opportunities for
predators to approach women on TOUTING
"These are cash in hand jobs, with
no record of the trip on a meter the streets and offer them rides,
or in any of the apps. Spotters masquerading as accredited
are bringing people out from the drivers, and people are getting into drivers and cars on the road we
airport to waiting cars, taking their these cars because they want a only see a 1 minute improvement
"cut" of the cash on the way." cheap ride home," says Mr Barton. in wait times for cars," he says.
He outlines that various rideshare
"It looks dodgy, and it is dodgy. "And if it's a cash job the public has
Don't risk your safety," says Mr operators used predatory pricing no way of knowing if they're getting
Barton. to gain market share when they ripped off."
arrived into the market but prices
Many of the touts feel justified had risen substantially from those Mr Barton says stopping touting
in resorting to these desperate early days and are often the same, is a first step in fixing safety
measures to win work because or more, than existing taxi pricing. and fairness problems in the
reforms to the commercial commercial passenger vehicle
passenger vehicle industry had "At peak times you're often paying industry and he urges members
allowed rideshare operators more in a rideshare vehicle of the public to contact their local
unfettered entry to the Victorian than you would in a taxi, but the MP and ask them to support his
market, creating unsustainable perception of a cheap ride prevails. bill.
And even with the increase in
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