Another city has relaxed the age of taxi drivers. According to the "Regulations on the Administration of Passenger Taxi Vehicles in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which came into effect in October, the age limit for applying for a passenger taxi driver qualification certificate in the city has been extended from 60 to no more than 65 years old.
Surging News found that cities such as Hangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Kunming, and Weifang have previously extended the age of taxi driver qualification from 60 to 65.
The "Regulations on the Administration of Passenger Taxi Vehicles in Huzhou City" is the first local legislation in the field of transportation in the city and the first local legislation in the field of road transportation in non-sub-provincial cities in Zhejiang Province. The "Regulations" lower the threshold for the operation of new business enterprises and allow cruise cars to integrate online car-hailing operations. At the same time, increase humanistic care for employees, clarify driver praise and incentive measures, break the restrictions on employee registration, and provide single work injury insurance for employees in new business formats.
In order to optimize the market business environment, the "Regulations" lower the threshold for platform economic access, reduce administrative intervention in capacity delivery, establish a capacity monitoring and dynamic adjustment mechanism to achieve market-oriented dynamic adjustment; clarify that the freight rate of cruise vehicles can be adjusted by the market to enhance the enthusiasm of operators. In addition, it stipulates the situation of business withdrawal to reduce the impact of market adjustment failure.