NZTA’s latest crackdown on Uber drivers in New Zealand includes medical fitness checks.
The New Zealand Transport Agency has issued no-drive notices to Uber drivers operating with serious medical conditions.
Information released to the Herald through the Official Information Act reveals two Uber drivers have been deemed “medically unfit to drive a vehicle in a passenger service” and ordered to stop by the NZTA.
The pair are among 29 Uber operators served prohibition notices and banned from driving, 141 infringement notices and 118 official warnings from the NZTA up to September 23.
I wouldn’t want someone with a virulent contagious illness as my driver. But I also wouldn’t want that person coughing all over me at a retail kiosk either.
Beyond those kinds of contagion issues, which you’d think would affect more than just cab driving, I’m a bit puzzled about the medical fitness checks.
I can understand being medically fit…
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