Officials of Roads and Transportation Administration said that the foreign ride sharing companies which operate in smart phones are illegal and they do not have an official license from the ministry to run their services in Saudi Arabia.
They added that the work of these kinds of ride sharing services is a violation against the city regulations.
The spokesperson of Uber says that the ministry doesn’t have any information regarding the foreign companies Easy Taxi and Uber and have no idea about their nature of work. He also informed that the ministry is coordinating with related authorities to pressurize these foreign companies to apply to these regulatory issues from concerned departments. The operation for this service occurs only in the destinations outside Saudi.
Uber is a company which doesn’t own cars or hire drivers, but they are in partnership with licensed operators who provide transport facilities to the passengers by connecting them through the Smartphone app and increase the productivity of their services.’
The Director of Uber in Saudi explains that the company is providing digital service to licensed operators and they are working a different environment that may cause some ambiguity about their work, so they will be proceeding with the same nature of work to get more popularity. It is expected that this turn against Uber will be resolved soon.
It is noted that the Saudi government is taking action to facilitate global transportation that provides comfortable and safer transportation options to passengers in the city.