Yankees tickets, speed cameras & a TLC glitch

[0:01] welcome to the podcast for the taxi

[0:03] driver of new york city my name is mario

[0:06] senna and we're going to have very

[0:08] interesting information in this podcast

[0:11] one of the things that we have to we at

[0:13] the

[0:14] end

[0:15] we're gonna show you how we're gonna be

[0:17] giving away

[0:18] giving away yankees ticket free yankee

[0:22] tickets we're gonna be giving away in in

[0:25] the course of the of this podcast

[0:29] go pay attention tickets i don't know

[0:32] it's not a big deal ticket from the

[0:34] yankees the number one team now in the

[0:36] league now the the bronx

[0:39] free ticket now but we have some some

[0:41] some news that we want to share with you

[0:44] as a taxi driver starting august 1st

[0:46] effective august 1st

[0:49] the speed camera the speed camera is

[0:52] going to be enforced 24 7.

[0:56] 24 7 365 days

[0:59] and in a year the speed camera is going

[1:02] to be in in

[1:03] enforced

[1:05] so please please we advise we have to

[1:09] to follow the regulation of the speed

[1:12] so you save life

[1:14] and you save a lot of money on this

[1:17] please

[1:18] go by the regulation speed limits

[1:20] wherever you go in the city

[1:23] please this is your license this is you

[1:25] you you

[1:27] life

[1:28] are you saying livelihood yeah this is

[1:30] the the money making

[1:32] uh a license that you have taxi as a

[1:36] taxi driver here in new york

[1:38] so excuse me we have to to save so a

[1:41] speed camera is going to be enforced

[1:45] 24 7 starting august 1st now they are in

[1:48] force now during the day

[1:50] but a starting order of august 1st it's

[1:53] going to be 24 7 365 days

[1:57] so we have to be very careful please

[2:00] drive carefully this is your profession

[2:03] this is what you do for a living please

[2:05] help us with that another thing that i

[2:08] want to

[2:09] bring up to notice is the

[2:12] limouses you remember limousines the

[2:14] software we we use and the over 250

[2:17] 250

[2:19] other car service

[2:21] uh limousine has a situation legal

[2:24] situation with iphone the iphone i mean

[2:27] apple app

[2:28] so the iphone two weeks ago the uh the

[2:31] iphones

[2:33] were not uh working limousines were not

[2:36] working on iphones so there was a a a

[2:40] introduction from from apple

[2:42] uh with limouses because they have an

[2:44] agreement and they have they were

[2:46] working on that and apple apparently cut

[2:49] them off before the date that they have

[2:52] uh

[2:54] in mind to to fix whatever they have to

[2:56] fix so apple when

[2:59] took off the application for limouses

[3:01] and of course our driver that use

[3:03] iphones were off the air so we apologize

[3:07] for that inconvenience uh some driver we

[3:09] were told from limouses at the beginning

[3:12] that that that this this situation to

[3:14] come back who might have taken uh two

[3:17] three four weeks or maybe more than a

[3:20] month to fix and then that's why we

[3:22] advise to to the driver if they could to

[3:25] get a android device on a a tablet or a

[3:29] telephone from android other than the

[3:32] iphone so some drivers they switch thank

[3:35] you thank you very much but uh

[3:39] at the same day we have the news that

[3:40] they have saddle i mean they have yeah

[3:43] been on the agreement we are we apple

[3:46] and limousines came back

[3:48] with the iphone application new and

[3:51] improved lsn

[3:53] driver you can download it from the

[3:57] iphone from the apple

[3:58] app store so iphone are already working

[4:01] as well as the android for the

[4:04] limousines application it's now

[4:06] available and in for so we want to

[4:09] apologize for for that situation that

[4:11] that day another situation where we just

[4:14] got last tuesday

[4:16] last tuesday happened that there was

[4:18] limousines is connected with tlc and any

[4:21] driver that is cancelled from tlc the

[4:24] limous is automatically taken off of the

[4:27] jobs of the of the air so what happened

[4:31] limousines took hundreds of of uh

[4:34] drivers off the air because there was a

[4:36] glitch there was there's something

[4:38] um a malfunctioning a tlc and tlc took

[4:43] took out a hundreds of drivers not only

[4:46] at agape but all the bases they took

[4:49] hundreds of drivers off the air

[4:52] because a glitch that they have a

[4:54] situation with the software with the

[4:56] portal at tlc

[4:58] so we also apologize for that we we find

[5:01] out what was going on and send the guy

[5:04] by 10 10 30 already the drivers the

[5:06] agape drivers were already back on back

[5:09] on that day so we want to apologize but

[5:11] still she hasn't give us any explanation

[5:14] the only thing that there was a glitch

[5:15] in the in the portal

[5:17] in the database that they have

[5:20] and so we apologize for the situation

[5:22] thank god we came back very very quick

[5:24] on that uh of course the driver that

[5:26] wastes time waste money on when that

[5:29] happened

[5:30] um so tlc is the responsible for that

[5:33] glitch and thanks guys

[5:35] they we already uh

[5:37] that that got that fix we got that fixed

[5:40] uh another thing that we find out that

[5:42] we tried to help with the situation with

[5:45] the gas with the price of the petroleum

[5:47] with the whatever is going on in the

[5:50] world the price of the gas is very

[5:52] expensive so what we're going to do now

[5:54] at agape we're going to find out every

[5:57] week every every two days we're going to

[5:59] send a link with all the gas station the

[6:02] 10 gas station with the least expensive

[6:06] gas in the five borough

[6:08] so every two days the drivers our driver

[6:11] our agape drivers gonna have a list of

[6:15] of uh you might see it on now on the

[6:17] screen

[6:18] the list of in the five bottles the gas

[6:20] is less expensive the cheapest

[6:23] gas it's not cheaper the least expensive

[6:26] it's not it's not cheap at all the least

[6:28] expensive gas station we're going to

[6:30] have listed every every week for you so

[6:33] that you can save some money

[6:36] we're talking about also about the black

[6:38] card phone black card phone is a is a

[6:41] fun uh equivalent to the workers

[6:43] compensation for the independent

[6:45] contractors for the black cars company

[6:48] black car car service so we we

[6:51] contribute to that fund very heavily we

[6:54] have to give a percentage of every

[6:56] dollar we get into our bank account so

[6:59] we have to send them a percentage out of

[7:01] that percentage that is being used now

[7:04] if you have an accident with with

[7:06] another car you hit somebody

[7:09] that black car phone is the one that

[7:11] take care of that accident or that

[7:13] incident through the phone food through

[7:15] the black carphone also

[7:17] the black carphone have a lot of

[7:19] benefits they have benefit they have

[7:22] dental they have visual they have uh

[7:24] medical tests they have insurance health

[7:27] insurance for you for your family the

[7:30] urgent care facility they have a lot of

[7:32] benefit for the drivers already for free

[7:36] free because already is already paid for

[7:39] you

[7:40] some some bases they take the the black

[7:42] phone uh

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[7:45] money from the from the customer and

[7:47] some other bases take it from the driver

[7:49] and in the case of agape we pay out of

[7:52] pocket we pay the black car phone out of

[7:54] pocket and that's a benefit that you

[7:56] already have already available for you

[7:59] that is hundreds of services legal

[8:02] services immigration services i mean so

[8:05] much services they help you with a lot

[8:07] of things the black hole phone the black

[8:09] card phone is there for you is already

[8:12] paid for for you so you need more

[8:15] information please you need any

[8:16] situation uh legal summonses or health

[8:21] anything right there telephone number is

[8:23] right there on the screen you can call

[8:25] them directly by the way when you have

[8:27] an accident

[8:28] with another drivers or you hit somebody

[8:30] that this is the number to call it's not

[8:33] it's not your insurance it's not

[8:36] an american transit you're not none of

[8:38] those uh car is the black car phone is

[8:41] the one in charge of

[8:43] managing your accident and whatever

[8:46] compensation you you should receive or

[8:48] the other all the drivers you receive is

[8:50] the black car from black car phone we

[8:52] have to use them please it's already pay

[8:54] and by the way it's very very expensive

[8:58] so it's there for you by the way

[9:01] so in agape we always look in ways our

[9:05] the service we provide the service you

[9:08] provide to our members in the case of

[9:10] agape it is very important and it has

[9:13] places in in a in a high level uh to

[9:17] become the first provider for the

[9:19] medicaid in the state of new york

[9:21] so two weeks ago we announced that we we

[9:24] have become the preferred provider

[9:26] preferred provider means that we are the

[9:29] first to be called arapai is the first

[9:31] to be called for any customer in that

[9:34] address 301 is 17th street 301 e17

[9:38] industry is agape is the the preferred

[9:41] provider for that address so 99 of the

[9:46] call that came out of that address

[9:48] is directly to agape from display they

[9:51] we we have jobs going locally going to

[9:54] brooklyn queens bronze manhattan you

[9:56] name it all over the place so if you

[9:58] downtown

[10:00] pass by stay around 1787 301 east 17th

[10:04] street because we are the preferred

[10:06] provider now as that was a little thing

[10:09] to to mention now coming soon coming

[10:12] soon i guess this week we're going to

[10:14] have also another address we're going to

[10:17] have a couple addresses where we are

[10:19] going to be the preferred provider agape

[10:21] preferred provider for new high park

[10:24] long island long island attention long

[10:28] island

[10:29] new high park agape is going to be the

[10:31] preferred provider for lakeville road

[10:35] and marcus avenue addresses

[10:38] lakeview road and marcus avenue a couple

[10:40] of entities over there we're going to be

[10:43] agape is going to be the preferred

[10:45] provider that means that we're gonna

[10:47] have even more value we already have a

[10:49] lot of value from that addresses but

[10:52] we're gonna have much more drive and

[10:54] much more call from that location

[10:57] new hyper long island is the xc33 from

[11:00] the low end line expressway the 495 xc33

[11:04] you make it right you right there

[11:08] new hyde park so whenever you see a job

[11:10] on the screen we are the preferred

[11:12] provider please try to be around there

[11:14] there's already a group of driving long

[11:16] island a long islander thank you thank

[11:18] you driver from long island they always

[11:20] there they knows those calls and they

[11:22] serve over there perfectly but we're

[11:24] going to need more drivers we're going

[11:26] to need more drivers in long island

[11:28] more drivers in long island because we

[11:30] become we're becoming the preferred

[11:33] provider preferred provider for uh lake

[11:37] uh new high park new high park lakeview

[11:39] road america's avenue and all the pros

[11:42] that we want to bring uh of course

[11:45] uh the

[11:46] ev cars

[11:48] excuse me

[11:50] electric cars

[11:54] electric cars uh

[11:57] uh is becoming more popular within the

[11:59] the industry

[12:00] uh so i have to remind you that for a

[12:03] wave vehicle wheelchair accessible

[12:06] vehicle

[12:07] uh

[12:08] agape has no bait fee free bay fee pro

[12:10] waste vehicle

[12:12] wheelchair accessible vehicle no base

[12:15] fee and no base fee also for ev car

[12:19] car electric cars there is no

[12:22] base fee basically i'm going to explain

[12:24] you what is base fee right now

[12:26] so we have no base fee for electrical

[12:28] cars and also for a wave car

[12:31] so electrical tesla you have a tesla we

[12:33] have many drivers already with tesla on

[12:35] the road so we we find out we we

[12:38] installed a couple of tesla

[12:41] tesla charges at the parking lot of

[12:43] agape transportation 361 is gone hill

[12:47] tc1361 our headquarter 361 is going to

[12:50] hello we have a couple of charges fast

[12:53] chargers over there for our tesla driver

[12:57] we have one hour free of charge

[13:00] you can pass by you have having launched

[13:02] on the by there by the spanish food

[13:05] mcdonald's

[13:06] empanada or you visiting el valle

[13:10] you can park your car there

[13:12] and have in charge free or charged you

[13:15] can charge your freedom of charge

[13:17] courtesy of agave transportation of

[13:20] course

[13:21] who else have to be

[13:24] agape

[13:25] another thing the the base feed

[13:27] basically is the the is a is a

[13:30] it's a fee as the name implies

[13:33] that the base charge most of the base

[13:35] charge to the driver

[13:37] so in our case for the new drivers we're

[13:40] still expecting new drivers attention

[13:43] we're still executing new drivers we

[13:45] have a very good incentive for the new

[13:48] driver of course we have a whole day job

[13:50] job the whole day for the driver five

[13:52] borough westchester and long island uh

[13:55] guaranteed the whole day

[13:57] minimum 15 15 minimum per trip

[14:00] and out of that money the price of that

[14:03] right is full for you there is no

[14:05] commission

[14:06] agape charge no commission for any job

[14:11] yeah you're here completely

[14:13] any job we don't charge commission not

[14:15] 10 percent not 20 not 30

[14:18] no 40

[14:20] no charge the 15 for three blocks is 15

[14:23] for yourself

[14:24] base fee we have a weekly fee that we

[14:27] have to to pay for for for having the

[14:30] program on

[14:31] and in our case is 60 60

[14:35] with a new driver we have four four

[14:37] weeks no wait fee four weeks no way feet

[14:39] and after the four weeks when you

[14:41] complete for you or any existing drivers

[14:44] you complete 50 calls or more during the

[14:46] week

[14:48] thursday through wednesday through to

[14:50] wednesday yes

[14:51] you don't pay bay fee in other words

[14:53] base fee is optional but you do less

[14:56] than 50 then you pay you you do more

[14:59] than than 50 jobs then you don't pay and

[15:02] then i have to do another announcement

[15:04] no base fee at agb transportation now

[15:06] with this uh we have junkie yankees

[15:10] ticket ticket free yankees tickets for

[15:12] the new drivers any new drivers

[15:14] attention thank you attention attention

[15:16] new drivers

[15:17] any new drivers that join our fleet

[15:22] and you complete 50 job or more the

[15:24] first week you have two tickets two

[15:27] tickets for to see the yankee the the

[15:29] best

[15:30] uh baseball team and now in this region

[15:34] in the nation

[15:35] the yankees from the bronx do you have

[15:37] two tickets for new drivers two tickets

[15:40] you complete 50 calls tomorrow oh so so

[15:42] what's going on with the old drivers all

[15:44] drivers also gonna have two tickets

[15:47] we're gonna have attention all drivers

[15:50] we're gonna every week we're gonna pick

[15:52] the five top drivers the five drivers

[15:55] that make the most cold calls we're

[15:58] gonna give them two tickets to each one

[16:01] so we're gonna give him 10 tickets

[16:03] per week to the to our drivers the temp

[16:07] 5 drivers with the most jobs completed

[16:11] they're going to get too ticketful to

[16:13] see the yankees here in the bronx

[16:16] the best well you have to see you have

[16:18] to see

[16:20] uh you know what i mean the yankees

[16:22] number one baseball team we have tickets

[16:24] for the yankee for our new drivers and

[16:26] we for existing driver for if you're the

[16:29] top five you get two tickets if you

[16:32] complete you the new driver the first

[16:34] week you complete 50 calls or more

[16:36] you have two tickets for the yankee free

[16:39] yankees ticket for the new and all

[16:42] drivers here in agape transportation

[16:45] thank you very much for your attention i

[16:47] know you're the best with the best

[16:49] because you you made us the best well

[16:52] through your service so we try to to

[16:54] maintain

[16:55] the the the flow of money in your

[16:58] pockets for your family enjoyment uh

[17:01] remember you have to relax you have to

[17:03] take at least one day off with your

[17:05] family relax rest i mean that the day

[17:09] the week that the world is not going to

[17:10] end tomorrow so you have to relax

[17:14] take time with your family take time for

[17:16] your health

[17:17] you have to to check your health you go

[17:20] to the hospital blackout phone give you

[17:22] that for free so take your time

[17:25] be blessed

[17:27] uh do good things and good things will

[17:29] be done to you so god bless you thank

[17:32] you for your attention see you at the

[17:34] next podcast my name is mario sera have

[17:37] a great day god bless you

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