Toulouse. Disruptions expected on the roads and the ring road on Monday, due to a snail operation

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You will probably have to be patient on the roads, Monday November 4, 2024, at Toulouseon the first day of the return to school from the All Saints' Day holidays. Of the VTC drivers have in fact planned to demonstrate, and are considering a snail operation on the main roads of the city.

Departure of the demonstration at 6:30 am from Sesquières

The VTC drivers have arranged to meet at Sesquières car parkaround 6:30 a.m., before a snail operation towards Toulouse-Blagnac airport a you peripheral. Some do not rule out mobilizing near the Airbus factories in Saint-Martin-du-Touch, or even making an incursion into the city center of Toulouse.

They call on the platforms to “revalue” their prices

These VTC drivers (acronym for “Transport car with driver”) are up in arms about reservation platforms — like Uber, of course, but also new market players, like Bolt — who do not, in their view, pay for rides their fair price. “Respect our work, revalue our prices”, is it written on a leaflet from the FO-INV trade union organization sent to Toulouse News.

They demand “more regulation” to install VTC drivers

These drivers also demand more regulation in this sector where new players are growing like mushrooms. ” THE market is saturated and our prices are very tight. Of the hundreds of colleagues still settle in Toulouse every year”, sighs a driver on condition of anonymity, surprised that “the authorities are still pushing for training…”. These angry professionals are thus demanding a “stoppage of registrations” to “limit the number of VTC drivers and eliminate false profiles”.

“I worked two and a half years with Uber, that was enough for me”

In recent years, many VTCs have freed from platformslike Pierre. “I started with Uber ten years ago, but I didn’t want to continue,” he says. “I worked two and a half years with this platform, that was enough for me! » Business cards, word of mouth… This driver did everything to play his own card and extricate himself from Uber's caudal forks. According to him, it paid off.

Today, I have my own clientele. I do not work with platforms, I apply my prices in relation to those of the market. I'm 61 years old, I've downsized and I'm quietly waiting for my retirement… But I make the same turnover as when I used Uber, doing half as many kilometers, and with much less constraints.

Pierre is not sparing in the soup however: “Uber has been clever in providing a package to drivers who have completed their training and want to launch their business. It is a nice springboardmore you have to know how to get outotherwise we are completely dependent.”

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