Overview
- ACCAURA reported in coverage published June 23–24 that active app drivers have roughly doubled from about 300,000 in 2023 to an estimated 600,000 today.
- The new entrants include laid-off professionals, retirees and more women, and many drivers now rely on app work as their main source of income rather than as a side job.
- Large shares of drivers do not own cars and use weekly rentals priced around $380,000–$400,000 or 36‑month leasing plans with weekly-equivalent payments near $420,000–$460,000.
- Drivers say platform commissions commonly run about 25–30% and sometimes up to 50%, while opaque algorithms influence fares and trip assignments and insurers may deny claims for undeclared app use.
- ACCAURA and drivers are pressing for legal recognition, collective bargaining, algorithmic transparency and mandated insurance coverage, but those demands hinge on government action to ratify the new ILO convention and on municipal and national regulation.