Page 6 - DRIVE A2B April 2020

From our Editor

Just a month ago I would not have envisaged no fares for them, as there is no rank and hail
that today the majority of Australians would work. Everyone coming into our airports must
be working from home, our children would go into isolation for 14 days - so there is no
be schooled via online classes, people need for taxis, hire cars or rideshare vehicles at
would be panic buying toilet paper and the airports.
cleaning products, our major events would be
cancelled, over 1.2 million people worldwide If drivers want any work, they need to belong
would have contracted COVID-19 and 65,000+ to a major BSP, Network or Depot. There are
would have lost their lives to this dreaded hardly any passengers to ferry around, and
virus. What a challenging time we are living in! if they do want to continue working they will
need to be connected to a call centre so as to
The government tells us to stay at home unless get dispatched work.
it's absolutely necessary to go out. The taxi
ranks are empty, no-one is on the streets, We are facing an enemy we cannot see! We
no-one is travelling to that conference, work cannot see the germ coming towards us. We
function, expo or nightclub. For the taxi, hire cannot smell it. We cannot feel it until such
car, limo and rideshare drivers this has to be time as it has taken hold of our respiratory
their worst nightmare. system. But we can employ preventative
measures by maintaining a hygienic routine.
For those drivers who are independent and Washing our hands with soap for at least 20
are not connected to a major Booking Service seconds, staying at least 1.5 metres away from
Provider (BSP), Network or Depot - there is another person, not meeting up in groups,

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