Coup at taxi TCA

Drivers want to outvote management group

The government is accused of a family business to have made the taxi company, which distributes the work additionally unfair to the member drivers.

TCA is the property of 1519 associated drivers, all of whom possess a certificate in the company. Some of these certificate holders is evil, it turns out messages that are massively circulated, including to this newspaper. During an additional certificate holders meeting they wish to sell the management.

,, Please contact your TCA colleagues on the plots and your environment and make it clear that they should vote against this day, so that it can be deposed dictator! '' Says the call. The 'dictator' Richard van der Veen is meant, director of TCA since 2009.

To get off the board must approve seventy percent of the drivers. They are angry because there is too little work. Earlier this week occupied an angry group of about fifty riders all the headquarters of the central Southeast, dissatisfaction with the lack of work. They find that the central organization will cost them too much money. ,, Of the five million euros per year coming in at TCA, but remains 26,000 euros. Where does this money go? Where is the marketing, where advertising, why the fee is not reduced? '

Joke Plomp, known as Taxi joke, manager of driver association TCA Street Talk, acknowledges that there is less work for the drivers, but blames not to management. ,, There are thousands of permits issued by the municipality, so the mud is thin. The mild winter resulted in less work, but we can not blame the exchange. Moreover, we can still never winning companies who drive to the airport for fifteen euro, '' said Adrian, which refers to the growing number of taxi companies that stunt with fares to and from the airport.

Especially Director Richard van der Veen have to pay for the deposit campaign, which was launched against the management. ,, Van der Veen is a family business created. His son gets more than two to three tons as so-called ICT professional and all the money that you and I pay, is left-sluisd through fraudulent diversion structures, '' as drivers egging each other on.

Commenting deny Van der Veen that his son is still working for TCA. He'd been working with an external ICT agency, which executes orders for TCA. The president regrets the accusations against him. ,, Of course we understand the concerns, but not the way it is expressed. There are many ways to raise discontent, where much more can be achieved with it, then by occupying the TCA property. ''

Van der Veen will not leave voluntarily. ,, It would be irresponsible if the director of the largest taxi organization in the country is stepping down while the taxi market is changing enormously. There is a need for stability and peace. '' The TCA connected with taxis wheel for years around 3.2 million journeys per year.

By Telegraph editorial / Photo: Dijkstra bv