page_title: Vehicle for hire
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle for hire
caption_attribution_description: On my first @Uber ride in Bogota heading to a Startup Weekend. Priceless easiness and safety. I love disruptive innovation.
context_page_description: A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and in which the driver does not drive his or herself, as in car rental and carsharing. They may be offered via a ridesharing company.
  Vehicles for hire include taxicabs pulled rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, auto rickshaws, motorcycle taxis, Zémidjans, okadas, boda bodas, sedan services, limousines, party buses, carriages, pet taxis, water taxis, and air charters. Share taxis, paratransit, dollar vans, marshrutkas, dolmuş, nanny vans, demand responsive transport, public light buses, and airport buses operate along fixed routes, but offer some flexibility in the point of origin and/or destination.
  Some of the largest vehicle for hire companies include Uber, Ola Cabs, DiDi, and Grab.
context_section_description: A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and in which the driver does not drive his or herself, as in car rental and carsharing. They may be offered via a ridesharing company.
  Vehicles for hire include taxicabs pulled rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, auto rickshaws, motorcycle taxis, Zémidjans, okadas, boda bodas, sedan services, limousines, party buses, carriages (including hackney carriages, fiacres, and caleches), pet taxis, water taxis, and air charters.  Share taxis, paratransit, dollar vans, marshrutkas, dolmuş, nanny vans, demand responsive transport, public light buses, and airport buses operate along fixed routes, but offer some flexibility in the point of origin and/or destination.
  Some of the largest vehicle for hire companies include Uber, Ola Cabs, DiDi, and Grab.
caption: An Uber driver in Bogotá, Colombia with the Uber mobile app on a dashboard-mounted smartphone
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