Where professional transport companies are actually losing money

Ask the operations manager of a mid-sized transport company where their biggest costs are and the answer will follow a predictable pattern: fuel, vehicle maintenance, driver wages, and insurance. The costs that rarely appear on any budget review are the ones that accumulate in the gaps between systems, in the trips declined because dispatch did […]

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How Bolt took 98% of the Riga taxi market, and what independent drivers everywhere should learn from it

According to Latvia’s State Revenue Service, Bolt now controls approximately 98% of the app-based taxi and ride-sharing market in Riga, a near-complete erasure of every independent operator that existed before the platform arrived and priced aggressively enough to make competition unsustainable. The licensed taxi industry in Latvia has publicly described this as a de-facto monopoly. […]

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