Florida’s Miami-Dade County Continues to Have Problems With Ride-for-Hire

Florida’s Miami-Dade County continues to have problems with the ride-for-hire industry and is looking to other cities for examples of how to legislate the growing businesses. The Miami Herald reports the county has given at least 36 fines and impounded at least seven vehicles of Lyft and UberX drivers. The companies allow customers to hire freelance drivers using smartphone applications. The companies are in violation of local regulations that legislates taxicab and limousine services. “We fit somewhere in between,” Veronica Juarez, Lyft’s director of government relations, told the Miami Herald’s editorial board.