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Today
February 04, 2012!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Its getting
better already.
TRANSPORTATION FOR-HIRE LICENSE IS STILL THE
BEST WAY FOR SELF-EMPLOYMENT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE REGULATIONS!!
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DOT Marks 20th Anniversary of Transportation Drug Testing Law
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The daily concern regarding transportation is public safety!
What is your company safety record?
FMCSA Strike Force
Targets Passenger Carriers
Did you know?
- "The Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is conducting another
strike force. The current focus is passenger carrier safety. Over
the next several days, federal, state and local law enforcement
agencies and FMCSA safety investigators will be conducting thousands
of bus safety inspections at popular travel destinations throughout
the United States and its territories.
This isn’t the first time FMCSA has used a
special strike force to target a specific group of carriers.
Previous initiatives have focused on school bus, dump truck and
hazmat companies.
The agency also uses the strike force approach
to uncover companies that are violating a particular regulation.
Recently, FMCSA announced that its second annual Drug and Alcohol
Strike Force had nabbed 109 commercial bus and truck drivers and 175
carriers for violating the federal drug and alcohol rules."
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We
will continue to post information as we find it, when we find it;
especially, when it relates to safety!
Previously,
FMCSA ordered North Carolina-based United
Tours, Inc., to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate passenger
service:
United Tours, Inc., is said to have repeatedly used nonqualified drivers,
failed to comply with other federal records-of-duty regulations.......
– The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Georgia-based H &
W Tour, Inc., to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate
passenger service within hours of the Agency uncovering violations
“so widespread as to demonstrate a continuing and flagrant general
disregard” for the safety of its passengers and the motoring public.....
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In any case, we
are almost ready for transportation companies to compete to serve the
public. We will be posting ads and instructions on how to use transportation
services. Visit us again. The redesigned website
will make it easier to navigate and
find the information you need to obtain licenses, find customers, understand regulations
in the transportation industry.....
Learn more,
February 04, 2012,
about your California Limited Liability Company (LLC); and please check this
warning about solicitation by businesses pretending to be the Secretary of
State's Office
http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/alert-misleading-solicitations.htm...
Now,
getting into transportation business is still relatively simple.
However, as of January 2011, the filing fees changed for all TCP
applications except TCP-A certificate. Nothing-else changed except for the
longer process times: TCP is still for "pre-arranged, single-load, charter
services where the operator can only charge for time or mileage or a
combination of time and mileage" - absolutely no flat or fixed fares for TCP
service (flat rate fares are approved for "share-ride PSC" only). The
following are the TCP filing fee changes as we read them for parties
whishing to start and operate Limo, Charter, Livery, Tour and Roundtrip
Sightseeing business in California ----
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE
PUC's
LLC QUESTIONNAIRE?
WHO ARE
YOUR MANAGERS? DO YOU HAVE EMPLOYEES?
If you want total control of your transportation business and or fear
sharing managerial responsibilities, profit or loss with others, then an LLC
structure may not work for you in the transportation industry.
NOW, there is a wrong way
and a right way to setup an LLC for a transportation business: they do in
California. Talk to a transportation attorney, and or a professional
specialized in transportation business.
if all your LLC
members are managers, what are their duties? For
instance, your marketing department may have different customer bases and or
MARKET zones: does each marketing zone have an assigned manager?
Remember, Workers Comp. matters are under the purview
of the very specialized unit of the California Labor Commission called
"Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)." And, whether someone is an
employee or not is best determined by the "Employment Development Department
(EDD)". Now, it seems the EDD may treat non-managing members of an LLC as
employees depending on the level of control a member has among other
factors. Make sure to share company duties and responsibilities correctly or
establish workers' comp. insurance for your LLC........
y providing Information, Education and Assistance to people who need
the services we offer on the web and at location, Transportation
Information Center has entered the E-Commerce arena. Our goal is to make it
easier to find transportation, travel and tour services anywhere. A
good market arena is one in which the participants are well informed.
We are now developing solutions that help passengers avoid illegal operators,
tardy operators, overcharges and other irregularities often told about
passenger ground transportation services.
For the busy business traveler or family we will also be offering help
finding and reserving transportation services.
As you may already know, limousines
are pre-arranged, exclusive, charter
 transportation services that
customers may
hire and pay on the basis of time of use (say $$ per hr, $$ per day...basis) or by the mile (mileage of use) or a
combination time and mileage; and fares & charges are negotiable. In California limousines operate under a State
issued permit or certificate prefixed "TCP" and suffixed by the letters "A"
or "B" or "P": the suffix letters tell what type of service the limousine
operator is authorized to provide (scope authority). Unlike "Taxi-cab &
Jitney Licenses" TCP Licenses allow operations such as limousines to pick-up
and drop-off passengers anywhere in the State of California. With limousine
service the customer has exclusive use/control of the vehicle for the
duration of the charter: limousine may go anywhere in the State to
pick-up or drop-off the customer. Anyone may hire a limousine or charter
service in the State.......read
more about limousines &
charter.
Roundtrip Sightseeing Service
 is
different from any other TCP charter service including but not limited to
limousine & Livery services in the following regard:
●●●click and
read on►
Shuttles,
on the other hand, are "share-ride" passenger
ground transportation services that are authorized to operate between
specific, fixed, points: they are licensed to
 allow
unrelated people going in the same general direction share-ride, and pay
fixed, individual, fares approved by the state (fares are published in the
operator's tariff, and must be made available to the public upon request).
As common carriers they are required to serve any body seeking
shared-ride service within the territory the carrier is authorized to serve.
We know all this information about transportation services because we help
license some of the most popular transportation companies...read
more about shuttles►
ACCESSIBILITY!
For us, accessibility means "its available on-demand and
affordable!" Very few individuals and corporations have ready access
to services offered by transportation companies because they do not have the
correct market information about what these companies are licensed to do. Another
difficulty in the past was that transportation companies sold their services
under such trade names as airport shuttle, limousine, livery service,
car-for-hire, tour-bus, etc. We want to sell their services from the point
of view of their respective operating licenses: this results in
user-friendly services and allows for a more flexible transportation service
systems. The impact the trade-names have on pricing will be removed and more
services will become more affordable. Anyone should now be able to take a
weekend limousine ride or impress a date without the excessive charges!
WHO NEEDS TRANSPORTATION SERVICE?
Anyone who chooses not to drive on any given time or day, or
anyone who has a special occasion or event may need transportation service:
share-ride or exclusive charter (Limo or Livery).
It could be you or someone you know! Take a limousine or a
car-for-hire (Liver, like a Taxi-without-boundaries) to the movie theater or anywhere you
wish to go, including but not limited to airports, train stations, harbors;
or use it for a date, a special occasion, an event or to just
get-about-town.
You may take the office party or meeting on an entertaining party-bus (charter/tour bus
ride), or go where you will and see the sights & hear the sounds, or get that
intimate feeling in a limousine.
And, how about transportation for infants and children to/fro daycare!
Transport any adult, to/fro the doctor, on a non-medical event basis!
These are all available services we have helped start and are still
operating.
You know, in California, as with most other states/provinces, most luxury
cars ,sedans, SUVs and the like (stretched or standard), are classified as limousines.
Regular sedans, SUVs, Vans, RVs, Motorbikes (motorbikes with sidecar) and all other vehicles licensed
to provide exclusive, single-load/single-party transportation service are
generally known as "car-for-hire"
services: they may provide similar comfort and services as limousines, but
they are not limousines: they certainly are much better than Taxi-cabs
and offer the same or similar comfort as limousines, but probably for a less fare than a
limousine. Now, because they are licensed by the state to pickup/drop-off
passengers anywhere in the state (and across city boundaries) it is
easy to see why we call them
"Taxi-without-boundaries".
Transportation Information Center is determine to make it easier for anyone
to get around town. Limousine, shuttle services to/from airports,
train-stations, bus-terminals, harbors and other places and points of
interest are some of the services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We just package and make these various services accessible and affordable to
our customers. ...
OUR LICENSING ACTIVITIES:
We have helped individuals, corporations, limited liability companies
and various entrepreneurs establish and operate transportation services.
And, using the US and California Models, you too may start your own
shared-ride services business and collect fares on an individual basis, or
provide
exclusive-single-party charter services such as limousine, car-for-hire
(using van, bus, SUV, motorbike, etc).
By using the
California model we offer the
most diverse licensing services for privately owned for-hire transportation
businesses. We encourage all transportation service providers
worldwide to use our model to diversify or create similar services: we will
help you advertise and sell your services.
Watch for more news about us, as we continue to grow and expand our
services to other regions.
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