taxi drivers get organized

The constitutive general assembly of this association was held at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Kénitra. It brings together “drivers operating without being taxi owners, holders of the professional card and trust authorization, in parallel with new developments, in particular the multiplication of circulars and memorandums specific to the organization of the sector”, indicates a press release.

The note specifies that “the supervisory administration showed a certain indulgence, laxity and negligence in the application of previous prefectural decisions before the issuance of circulars 336, 444, 750, and more recently 455, which continue to be applied with the same logic of indulgence, thus neglecting the aspect linked to the rights of professional assistant drivers, whether in the context of dependence on a legal entity or in that of autonomy as a transitional measure for the driver who owns a single taxi”.

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Those concerned also denounced “the position of the supervisory administration, under the pressure of security imperatives on the one hand, and under the influence of representatives of operators holding several licenses, within the bodies of professional unions, as well as of certain opportunists allied with employers”, calling on the competent authorities to “put in place a global framework law for the sector, through a fair Road Transport Code for professional drivers who do not own taxis, by guaranteeing them their economic rights, social and professional.

“The direct granting of a license to the practicing driver remains the central element and the most appropriate and radical solution for the taxi sector in Morocco, in particular with the existence of other forms of unauthorized transport and the illegal competition that thrives due to the acute lack of available taxis. Therefore, it is imperative to grant licenses in order to improve the quality of passenger transport services, while integrating new technologies into the sector,” the new association underlined.