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Truework launches “Credentials” to extend verifications to the Gig Economy in the US

RWN Staff

Truework, the income verification API that powers over 15,000 lending institutions, today announced it has launched Credentials, a new technology that expands verification coverage beyond their instant network of 35 million employees. Credentials will allow the growing population of 1099 and other hard-to-reach employees to share their employment and income data with verifiers when instant verifications aren’t possible.

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Feature/ProfileTaxi industry news

Brand new helicopter flight over Niagara Falls is bringing “The WOW Factor” to limousine/winery tour

Rita Smith

“We work with Great Lakes Helicopters, which has a very new, compact helicopter that makes this event safe, and affordable,” he says. “When it comes to the ground vehicle, we can provide anything from a Rolls Royce to a Lincoln Continental – whatever the client wants. Everything is personalized for them. The only call they have to make is to us, to our reservations line which is staffed with a live human being, 24 hours/7 days per week.” (905 468 7727)

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Opinion/ColumnTaxi industry newsTrucking

Maybe Uber will be able to accomplish in Trucking what it’s failed to do in Taxi: turn a profit while drivers earn a fair living

Rita Smith

Reading coverage of the Transplace purchase and other recent Uber-themed articles in logistics media, you could almost get the impression that Uber is a profitable, efficient company generously looking to share its success with outdated trucking and logistics industries that have somehow struggled along without its help for a century.

In fact, none of the cold, hard data supports this idea.

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Opinion/ColumnTaxi industry news

Duffy’s Domain: hello, and…good-bye?

Guest Contributor

It is time to pass the torch. I have sold Taxi News and all rights to use the name to Rita Smith. Many of you in the taxi business already know of and her: for seven years in the 1990s, Rita was the Editor of Taxi News before she was recruited to other projects to which she could devote her considerable talents, including multiple positions in our provincial and federal governments.

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NewsTaxi industry news

Calgary Stampede kicks off July 9th; Checker Cab has full fleet on the road

RWN Staff

“Stampede is like Christmas, New Years and St. Patrick’s Day rolled into a ten day party. We’ve been picking up at the Stampede for 45 years,,” says Kurt Enders, President of Calgary’s Checker Transportation Group (Checker Cabs).  ” It is important we get people home safely. Our entire fleet will be out and ready to pick up the party-goers, day and night.”

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The name "Dundas" is not just a street name in Toronto, but is used in municipalities across Ontario.
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Taxi industry can manage Dundas Street name change: “Call it Freedom Street” – Co-op Cabs CEO

Rita Smith

Toronto’s Executive Committee voted on July 6th to begin the process of re-naming Dundas Street, and Toronto’s Taxi industry will manage the change, says Abdul Mohamoud of Co-op Cabs.

“I have no problem with the name change, and it should be done,” says Mohamoud, CEO of Co-op Taxi in Toronto.

“We could rename it ‘Freedom Street.’”

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