DMV says UberX, Lyft drivers need commercial plates.

[PoliticAverse]

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said drivers for UberX, Lyft and Sidecar must obtain commercial license plates — a major threat to the booming app-based ride-hailing companies.

“Any passenger vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit is a commercial vehicle,” the DMV wrote in an advisory dated Jan. 5. “Even occasional use of a vehicle in this manner requires the vehicle to be registered commercially.”

The ride companies and their trade groups vigorously denounced the DMV’s memo, which would build roadblocks for their thousands of drivers.

Read the rest at: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/DMV-says-UberX-Lyft-drivers-need-commercial-6035318.php

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Makes sense to me.

I don't know about their licenses, but here in Ohio, you'd probably need a commercial driver's license as well.

[KamaAina]

2. The sense from the comment section is that DMV wants its cut

just like CPUC got.

[Hoppy]

3. I can understand a commercial driver's license but not commercial plates.

[petronius]

4. It seems like it should be the same as for a cab - Uber itself may not be in the taxi

business, but I don't really understand how the drivers themselves aren't just unlicensed (and unregulated) cab drivers...