What does CPVV have planned for the future?

A note from Rod Barton MLC...
Prior to this pandemic, the taxi and hire car industry had already been knocked down. COVID-19 was ultimately the nail in the coffin for individuals and families within the industry already struggling to survive. I need to point out again that there has been a major lack in economic support from the government for non-employing sole traders, whose livelihoods now depend on an effective recovery plan.

Late last month, I stood in Parliament to ask Minister Pulford, representative of the Minister of Transport, Ben Caroll, what the regulator, Commercial Passenger Vehicles Victoria (CPVV), was planning to do to ensure the taxi and hire car industry could move forward as Victorians come out of lockdown.

Currently there is no news on any plan for the re-launch of the industry from CPVV, which, to remind ourselves, has a statutory responsibility for the 110,000 taxi and hire car drivers in Victoria. I continue to urgently seek answers regarding any kind of roadmap and the role CPVV will play in the recovery of the taxi and hire car industry.

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