The proposal of Government to compensate carriers once eliminate the subsidy at gasoline that’s it defined. It consists of depositmonthly in bank accountsthe value equivalent to subsidy eliminated.
The Government’s objective is to prevent the elimination of subsidy affect the transportation rates y freight. The sector of taxismo is the one that is clearest about how the formula that will be used for compensate to their members.
In QuitoFor example, some 30 thousand taxi drivers will receive values between USD 4.50 and USD 6 dailyby 20 days of work per month, each taxi driver will receive a deposit of between USD 90 y USD 120.
According to the taxi union of Pichinchathe average consumption in the capital is between 8 and 10 gallons per day.
Quito is the city where more gasoline with consume for the geographical conditions and of transit. It is not the same in Guayaquil, where a taxi consume between 6 and 7 gallons of gasoline on a work day.
There the taxi drivers will receive compensation from USD 3,50 y USD 4, according to the official proposal, that is, between USD 69 y USD 82 by 20 days of job.
Taxi drivers know that this is the proposal of the Governmentbut they have not yet received it officially and that is why they have not yet announced if the will accept or they will propose a alternative.
The same formula to define the compensation will be used for transport in trucks and in tricimotosalthough in those cases the amount global to be spent will be smaller because most of the compensation It will be used for taxi driving.
To begin defining details of the proposal, this Tuesday will be the first meeting of the government with the National Land Transport Confederationa union that brings together the majority of Federations of the Transport of the country.