Transvalparaíso The tender in 2007 had as its aim to order the urban transport system to eliminate traffic congestion, improve frequency, quality of minibuses and set fares.
The installation of a GPS on board each van did not end "Frog", which in turn informed a few coins on the frequency drivers of other vehicles.
is that GPS is a line, being too expensive and needs high-tech equipment that the terminals do not have. Thus, the burden GPS information - route, frequency, hours of release, speed - during the tour, and then downloaded into a computer once arrived at the terminal. Why not allow the direct control, but only serves as a reference to the SEREMI Rolando Osorio, president of the Federation Drivers in the region, is very clear: "Nothing has changed. Painted vehicles, but still all the same. " Andres Fuenzalida, consulting engineer of the SEREMITT , remember that users can make claims in order to guide regulators. In case of breach of the terms of the tender, the company is liable to a fine by the SEREMITT . So, last year conducted 35 administrative proceedings against companies tendered. But according to Rolando Osorio, the GPS does not change anything, as traffic conditions do not perform on a schedule and frequency. Further, be monitored by GPS would encourage drivers to take risks to try to respect this often for fear of punishment. However, according to Andres Fuenzalida, GPS Online is part of the points I consider the new bid.
addition, the bidding never considered the work, and there is not no rules drivers provide a work schedule or a fixed salary. So, drivers are working 16 or 17 hours a day without stopping, even for lunch. "A micrero not have a decent life, comes home at one o'clock in the morning and leave at four o'clock, not shared with the family," says Rolando Osorio. For him, this way of life can lead to crime, drug addiction ... According to him, to meet a normal working day, would have to have three drivers to a vehicle. "The problem is that there is a shortage of drivers," says Andres Fuenzalida. For the 2800 machines in the region, no more than 4000 drivers. "3000 should be trained drivers," says Rolando Osorio, "but this needs investment. "
According to Andres Fuenzalida, there were attempts to professionalize the SEREMITT drivers, offering free education, but all efforts were in vain, since after obtaining a professional license, they would work as bus drivers, highest paying job. In fact, "no one wants to be a conductor", as passing a professional license is a cost over $ 300. 000 pesos. Moreover, according to Andres Fuenzalida, "is the catch more bad" because drivers "are the most waste, they say alcohol ...." Moreover, "retirement - between 100 and $ 120,000 pesos a month - is as bad as not enough to live," Rolando Osorio complaint, "and there are drivers who are 60 years driving."
The salary of the drivers is another problem, since they earn a certain percentage of the proceeds from their machine, which encourages competition for passengers. According to Andres Fuenzalida, the tender has ended the "collereo" between micreros, giving each company a certain exclusivity in their travels. Working over 16 hours a day, a micrero reaches a monthly salary of $ 600,000 pesos while a contract with a workday of 7.5 hours, would provide $ 250,000 pesos per month. To be valuable to have a fixed salary, it would be about $ 500,000 pesos, but that the employer would not be enough to pay the maintenance of their vehicles.
And with a government subsidy? "For more than ten years, Viña Bus drivers receive 16% of revenues. The company receives subsidies, but drivers still earn the same, "Rolando Osorio complaint. Is that this grant was intended to lower tariffs, which had risen with the tender, fixed them based on a polynomial of readjustment, which takes into account the price of oil, the cost of bus replacement, tires, and an index of labor. "They do calculations with percentages, but I do not know where they draw," says Rolando Osorio, since this index has nothing to do with the salary of a micrero, which anyway is not fixed. To tackle the problem of drivers who would not stop for students, there was also a state grant to match the student rate with the average adult fare. Thus, according to Andres Fuenzalida, a driver earns the same whether an adult or a student who step on your machine.
To Rolando Osorio, the employer went benefited as "the pure subsidy is paid a new machine." The user as winning as rates dropped, and "the worker is the only one who did not win anything." So the Federation sent a letter to the transport subsecretería last week to ask them to stop subsidies to the region to which employers will pay for drivers.
Andrés Fuenzalida defends inspection work, ensuring that at the beginning of the bid sought to oversee contractual issues with controls on the terminals. Some firms fined by irregularities, but the drivers went on strike, and "never was issued violations." Is that "drivers' unions are the hardest, because if they stop, no locomotion." "Our guild has decided on a suspension of 6 and 7 March for the new tender of the trip, he's going to take a private" warns Rolando Osorio. He said this measure will also harm the user, because it will raise the price. In addition, he wants to appeal to the national authority, which in his opinion "has forgotten regions. I'm glad to hear the new Minister for Transport when he says that will open over 30 new bus stops for the metropolitan region, but here's whereabouts not even have a roof and do nothing. "So the user calls to come together to claim their rights and the fulfillment of the tender
By Marion Bastit
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