Four UBER drivers were fined 25.000 each in the city of Cluj-Napoca during the last night, the Cluj police applied the contraventional sanction to them for violating the law of law 38/2003 regarding the transport of people by taxi, the registration plates of the cars also being confiscated, the cars remaining in the yard of the 6th Police Department in Cluj-Napoca.
Week UBER was launched in Cluj-Napoca, just a few days before the start of the Untold festival, but not having local partners, those from UBER would have brought about 100 cars from Bucharest to deal with customer orders, and 4 of the drivers were fined a total of 100.000 lei.
Everything was of course based on the initiative of Cluj taxi drivers, who make orders through the UBER application and take the drivers directly to the 6th Police Department in Cluj-Napoca, where they were reported to be illegally transporting people by taxi or rental, with the police officers imposing stinging fines on them.
UBER – the first fines in Cluj-Napoca
Although the 4 unlucky drivers tried to explain to the police that they were actually transporting friends, after a short discussion with an alleged lawyer from Bucharest, they stopped talking to the police, and in the middle of the night yesterday the UBER service was suspended in Cluj -Napoca, the drivers sent there probably being called back to Bucharest.
Four contraventional sanctions of 25.000 lei were applied for public transport of people by taxi without authorization. As a complementary measure, registration certificates and plates were seized.
This is the most decisive measure that the police have taken so far against UBER, and this is because the taxi drivers worked together to try to stop the operation of UBER in Cluj-Napoca, they managed to temporarily suspend the service , but it remains to be seen if the fines will be maintained after they will most likely be challenged.
UBER was also received with little sympathy by the taxi drivers in Bucharest, but in the capital there is enough room for everyone to make money, but in Cluj-Napoca things are different and it would be easy to sympathize with the taxi drivers if you were not a driver and you would not have experienced so many times the execrable services that the vast majority provide.
