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Beck Taxi lawsuit overview:
- Who: Beck Taxi filed a lawsuit against the City of Toronto.
- Why: Beck Taxi claims the City of Toronto puts public safety at risk by only requiring commercial tax drivers to complete a training course that it argues is flawed and deficient.
- Where: The lawsuit was filed in Toronto.
The City of Toronto failed to put mandated sufficient commercial driver training in place to properly protect public safety, a new lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Beck Taxi claims the City of Toronto fails to protect public safety by “allowing thousands of untrained commercial drivers to fill our streets,” according to a news release posted on Dec. 1.
Beck Taxi argues the City of Toronto created a driver training course in June 2022 that lacked provisions to identify the test taker, could be completed “in less than an hour” and was ultimately suspended.
“This program was suspended after it was audited, yet thousands of vehicle-for-hire drivers obtained licenses through this program and the decision was made by the City to allow them to keep those licenses,” legal counsel for Beck Taxi says in a statement.
Toronto has since implemented a new basic driver training course that Beck Taxi argues “suffers from most of the same deficiencies and flaws” as the suspended driver training course.
“Beck has been deeply concerned that the public interest has not been served and public safety has been put at risk by the actions of the City,” the Toronto lawsuit news release states.
Toronto lawsuit claims no mandatory training for existing drivers from 2016-2022
A 2016 city council vote removed mandatory training for taxi drivers; however, a deadly accident involving an “untrained driver” led it to reinstate a mandate for an accrediting training program, according to the Beck Taxi lawsuit.
While the training program requirement was supposed to be in place by June 2020, Toronto did not begin an accrediting program until April 2022, at which time only new drivers were required to complete it, the lawsuit claims.
The City of Toronto ultimately changed the rule in November 2022, making it so that existing drivers would have to complete a training course to renew their licenses, according to the Beck Taxi lawsuit.
In related news, in January 2020, a group of taxi drivers working for companies in Metro Vancouver attempted to get Uber and Lyft drivers barred from working in the region by asking for their drivers licenses to be revoked.
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