March 2023 TLC plates & electric vehicles

[0:00] we finally have the Last Detail for the

[0:02] new TLC plate in New York also the tolls

[0:07] proposed for the to go below 59th Street

[0:09] Bridge has been postponed for the next

[0:13] year this is the podcast for the New

[0:15] York City Taxi Driver let's get starter

[0:19] [Music]

[0:29] welcome to the podcast of New York City

[0:32] taxi drivers my name is Mario Sena for

[0:35] the grace of God and the president of

[0:37] Agape Transportation one of the taxi

[0:40] company in New York City dedicated 100

[0:44] to non-emergency medical transportation

[0:48] we have some information very important

[0:50] for the drivers in New York City thank

[0:54] you for you uh for being with us we

[0:57] finally have the details the 15 March 15

[1:01] is the date to start applying for the

[1:04] for the new place it's going to be

[1:06] divided in two groups the 400 and 600.

[1:10] the first 600 first 600 plates for

[1:15] exclusively for Ev card electric car we

[1:19] is going to be starting the 15th March

[1:21] 15 it's going to be available through

[1:23] the TLC website you can apply for one of

[1:27] those uh new plates now what do you need

[1:31] for that you need to have a PLC license

[1:34] PLC driver license

[1:37] you also need to have a Social Security

[1:39] a personal social security number

[1:43] and also you cannot have a TLC plate now

[1:48] active under your name you can now have

[1:52] a DLC active on your name so this is the

[1:56] three main point that you have to have

[1:58] now you don't have to have the card

[2:01] right now for the first 600 cards you

[2:03] don't have to have uh physically the

[2:06] cars already on on your possession you

[2:08] can apply after you apply and you are

[2:11] one of the selected driver you have up

[2:14] to four months you have 120 days

[2:18] to get your vehicle once you are

[2:21] approved for one of those first 600

[2:25] plates now for the rest uh 400 places

[2:29] they're going to be available uh the

[2:31] 29th March 29th this attends the same

[2:35] month the 29th online also going to be

[2:38] available the rest the the the other 400

[2:42] uh new playful easy cars also for those

[2:46] cars the same way to apply but but you

[2:57] the last 400 is open to individual or

[3:01] Corporation is a maximum of 25 plays

[3:05] that you can get personal or cooperation

[3:07] but you

[3:12] so

[3:13] the 600 4600 and personal you don't have

[3:18] to have the cars for the last starting

[3:20] the 29th the 15 600 and the 29 for the

[3:24] last 400 you

[3:29] so make sure you clear you understand if

[3:33] you have any questions you can go to the

[3:35] TLC website you can call Agape also we

[3:38] we can give you some information now the

[3:42] second Point remember the the surcharge

[3:45] uh to go into Manhattan below 59 uh

[3:48] below 59th Street

[3:50] has been postponed this is craziness

[3:54] that you know the city uh I hope that

[3:58] that never go in effect but they had

[4:00] been postponed for the second half of

[4:03] the next year

[4:04] 2024 have been postponed I I hope they

[4:09] they organize that and finally they

[4:12] don't put the surcharge to go into

[4:14] Manhattan so those are the two big

[4:16] information we have for you now

[4:19] also remember the there is a regulation

[4:22] and effect for Ubers and Lyft drivers

[4:26] Ubers have up to

[4:29] 2030

[4:31] 2020 30 is all the crafted 2030 all the

[4:37] the drivers for Ubers have to have a a

[4:42] electric cars only

[4:44] only cars after the 30 to work or Uber

[4:47] or leave however you can keep your

[4:50] regular card your gasoline you know

[4:52] hydrogen car already to work with the

[4:55] rest of the the car service or the Black

[4:58] Card of your choice so in order to work

[5:01] after the in sixth year it's going to be

[5:03] in effect that you cannot work on Uber

[5:06] or live uh with uh without a electrical

[5:11] vehicle by the way we here at Agape we

[5:15] have four vehicles available for sale we

[5:18] have four cars uh model three with the

[5:22] range of 350 miles per charge so those

[5:27] uh I understand that that model is not

[5:30] available anymore uh now through to

[5:34] Tesla so we have four Tesla at Agape uh

[5:39] available for you to finance you bring

[5:41] your own financing or we can work it out

[5:43] with you is for our drivers for workouts

[5:47] available uh electric cars uh to be

[5:50] financed so this is because our driver's

[5:54] number one number one the drivers

[5:56] actually we we have uh a couple of dozen

[6:00] new drivers the last two months couple

[6:02] of new drivers and we also a bunch of

[6:05] new new atoms trips we've been adding an

[6:09] average of 500 trips a day

[6:12] we add into to the group of dispatching

[6:16] so we have more drivers we had a lot a

[6:18] lot more a lot a lot more trips so we

[6:22] have trees available for you you can if

[6:25] you're not making at least 350 a day

[6:28] whatever you're working now you you have

[6:31] to try again call the base this is a

[6:34] number you can contact us and we open

[6:37] for you we always look into ways how to

[6:40] how to trip uh VIP our drivers actually

[6:44] we have a new incentive now

[6:47] well initiative that we're gonna we're

[6:50] gonna be giving away a scholarship

[6:52] scholarship for the kids or our drivers

[6:56] for the kitchen of the children for our

[6:59] drivers we're going to be giving away

[7:01] the scholarship courtesy or Agape

[7:04] Transportation this is agape the number

[7:08] one non-emergency transportation in the

[7:11] city of New York you're very welcome we

[7:13] need drivers we have plenty of call

[7:16] remember 15 minimum uh per right no

[7:20] percentage not deduction from your check

[7:23] for every right not deduction 15 minimum

[7:27] an average of 28 yeah you hear you're

[7:31] here okay

[7:32] 28 average per call if you can you can

[7:36] show me that in any place else I want to

[7:39] see that 28 and we guarantee remember

[7:43] listen to this we guarantee that you

[7:46] don't need

[7:47] another application to work when you

[7:49] work for full time for Agave

[7:51] Transportation you're gonna make plenty

[7:53] of of job of money we have the last year

[7:57] we have drivers that get up to one

[8:00] hundred thousand dollars last year yes

[8:02] working at Arabic we have three projects

[8:05] and five boroughs

[8:07] bronze Manhattan Brooklyn Queen starting

[8:10] Island we cover all Westchester and we

[8:13] also covered all Long Island Long Island

[8:16] also Long Island is at we need driver

[8:19] for Long Island and Brooklyn Brooklyn is

[8:21] super super hot we need driver for for

[8:25] uh Brooklyn Westchester also and we

[8:29] lately we we having a lot of long

[8:31] distance call if you want to go up a

[8:33] musical driver come with the gas with a

[8:36] ton full of gas we have a job to Buffalo

[8:39] to Syracuse to Albany long range I mean

[8:43] long distance call so this is Arabic

[8:46] anything that we can do for you we have

[8:48] for you this is informative podcast for

[8:51] the taxi driver of New York thank you

[8:54] for being with us and may God bless you

[8:56] all of you thank you God bless you

[9:03] thank you

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