Tag: ride sharing background check

Many states are currently fighting to require more stringent background checks of ride-sharing drivers, while Uber, the grand daddy of them all, is fighting it. A recent event, however, is not helping their cause. Uber is now being faced with responding to allegations of incident assault against one of it’s drivers in Pennsylvania. Collin Deppen of […]

Austin, Texas is the latest city in the nation to try and change the criminal background check protocol of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. On May 7, 2016, voters shot down Proposition 1, an Austin statute that would have exempt ride-sharing companies from obtaining fingerprints from their drivers. The previous process for vetting Lyft […]