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Healthcare transport and taxi

Future vision: how KNV meets the challenges of tomorrow

The pursuit of a future-proof healthcare transport and taxi sector is more than an ambition. It is a necessity for Dutch society. To realize this vision, the Royal Dutch Transport (KNV) emphasizes three crucial key points. These guiding principles are not only…

Digital revolution in the taxi market requires stricter rules

Digital revolution in the taxi market requires stricter rules

Enforcement parties have noticed a growing number of 'missing companies' in the taxi market. ILT indicates that this problem mainly occurs in the ordering market, specifically with companies that offer rides via platforms. The Dutch taxi market is at a crossroads between traditional services and innovative,…

Bertho Eckhardt

Chairman Bertho Eckhardt emphasizes the importance of 'connected' mobility

KNV Connected Mobility plays a crucial role in the transition to a future of mobility that is both sustainable and technologically advanced, while also taking into account the needs and expectations of the modern traveler. The annual New Year's reception of the…

Melanie van der Horst

Councilor van der Horst speaks at KNV meeting about urban mobility

Councilor Melanie van der Horst's speech at the KNV meeting provided a glimpse of the complexity and direction Amsterdam is taking. The annual meeting of the Royal Dutch Carriers (KNV) in The Hague, a moment…

KNV welcomes Amsterdam councilor Melanie van der Horst as a guest speaker

KNV welcomes Amsterdam councilor Melanie van der Horst as a guest speaker

According to Van der Horst, the figures show that the 'pressure' on public space is increasing due to 'a growing and densifying city'. Melanie van der Horst, the Amsterdam councilor for Traffic, Transport and Air Quality, Public Space and Green, has been selected as…

KNV is looking for solutions to growing problems in student transport

KNV is looking for solutions to growing problems in student transport

Should KNV play a more positive role in the sector and contribute to improving the situation in student transport? The criticism of Royal Dutch Transport (KNV) about student transport is increasing after another year of imbalance between demand and…

Practical test Central Taxi Database (CDT) is entering its final phase

Practical test Central Taxi Database (CDT) is entering its final phase

An important aspect of this practical test is the registration of working and rest times by taxi drivers.


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Royal Dutch Transport launches KNV Connected Mobility

Royal Dutch Transport launches KNV Connected Mobility

With the launch of KNV Connected Mobility, the trade association is proposing a new course. After the farewell of Sonila Metushi and the subsequent silence around the MaaS lab, Royal Dutch Transport (KNV) now presents its new initiative: KNV Connected Mobility. According to the…

Healthcare transporters are sounding the alarm: student transport on the edge of the abyss

Healthcare transporters are sounding the alarm: student transport on the edge of the abyss

The chairman of the trade association calls for a critical evaluation of the influx of transport and would like to see the number of route changes reduced. In an urgent appeal to all Dutch councils of mayors and aldermen, the…

GTL warns of social and economic carnage in the taxi sector

GTL warns of social and economic carnage in the taxi sector

GTL's call is a wake-up call for all parties involved. The National Group of Companies with Chauffeured Taxi and Location Vehicles (GTL), the interest group representing the taxi industry, has sounded the alarm about a growing shortage of taxi drivers. According to GTL…

Healthcare transport sector threatened by driver shortage caused by CBR

Healthcare transport sector threatened by driver shortage caused by CBR

It is a complex situation with many different factors contributing to the driver shortage problem in the taxi industry. Healthcare transport companies are increasingly affected by capacity problems at the Central Bureau for Driving Skills (CBR), leading to significant problems…

Royal Dutch Transport welcomes new board members

Royal Dutch Transport welcomes new board members

Three new appointments during the general meeting of members of KNV in De Bilt. Diana Begeman is willing to be part of the board and replaces Wim Leewis who stepped down as a board member due to the closure of his company. She is…

Jeffrey van Gils has to further develop MaaS for the KNV trade association

Jeffrey van Gils has to further develop MaaS for the KNV trade association

"I declare and promise that." This week, Jeffrey van Gils (28) started at KNV, where he will be involved in work for the national interest group for public transport companies, OV-NL, and will take the lead on behalf of KNV in further developing…

GTL-Taxi on collision course after annulled taxi decision and legal vacuum

GTL-Taxi on collision course after annulled taxi decision and legal vacuum

The sector now wants to increase the pressure on the Flemish government. Last week, GTL was received together with the other social partners at the cabinet of Minister Lydia Peeters. The conclusion after that meeting, according to GTL, was that there was absolutely no…

VNO-NCW chairman Ingrid Thijssen is a guest at the KNV meeting

VNO-NCW chairman Ingrid Thijssen is a guest at the KNV meeting

After a short dip at the end of 2022, the economy may slowly pick up again in 2023. As is customary every year, affiliated members from the Healthcare Transport and Taxi, Bus Transport Netherlands, Public Transport and the MaaS-Lab sectors met each other in De Nieuwe or Littéraire…

Bus transport Netherlands, the quality requirements are embedded in the DNA of the association

Bus transport Netherlands, the quality requirements are embedded in the DNA of the association

The quality requirements of Bustransport Nederland must be checked by independent companies. Bustransport Nederland considers quality so self-evident that compliance with established quality requirements has been a condition for membership of the trade association since 1 January of this year. The relevant quality requirements has…

Sonila Metushi's departure from KNV is a great loss for MaaS-Lab

Sonila Metushi's departure from KNV is a great loss for MaaS-Lab

“Business as usual” is not an option for travelers and the environment. That is why Sonila Metushi called on all relevant stakeholders to accelerate their use of MaaS. After almost 5 beautiful years, as Sonila Metushi herself writes in her farewell email to…

KNV and CNV sign CAO healthcare transport and taxi

KNV and CNV sign CAO healthcare transport and taxi

Employers' organization KNV Zorgtransport is very pleased with the finalization of the collective labor agreement. KNV Healthcare Transport and Taxi and CNV Vakmensen have signed the new collective labor agreement for healthcare and taxi transport. The new collective labor agreement came into effect on 1 January…

KNV: “FNV attitude socially irresponsible”

KNV: “FNV attitude socially irresponsible”

FNV did not present the final offer to its members, but announced actions and strikes. Royal Dutch Transport finds the attitude of FNV socially irresponsible. The new collective agreement is for the members of both KNV Zorgtransport and Taxi and CNV Vakmensen…

CLA final offer for healthcare and taxi transport rejected

CLA final offer for healthcare and taxi transport rejected

FNV: Employers refuse a good CAO. Strikes continue! Employers gave the unions until noon on Tuesday 29 November to respond. KNV assumed that the unions would present the final offer to their supporters. However, the union…

New CLA final offer for healthcare and taxi transport

New CLA final offer for healthcare and taxi transport

Finally, due to the too great technical challenges, employers propose to cancel the proposed online registration of services. The employers in healthcare and taxi transport, united in KNV Healthcare Transport and Taxi, have made an ultimate attempt to…

Taxi and healthcare transport strikes are a diabolical dilemma

Taxi and healthcare transport strikes are a diabolical dilemma

Employers indicate that their backs are against the wall and the impossible cannot be demanded by the unions. With a short email to the members, Royal Dutch Transport confirmed that there is a dialogue with the trade unions again.…

Final publication date of NEA index postponed

Final publication date of NEA index postponed

Strikers are not obliged to report to their employer that they are going to strike. The determination and publication of the NEA Index has been postponed again by 2 weeks to November 28, 2022. Contrary to the latest message that the NEA index will be…

Strike after expired healthcare transport and taxi ultimatum

Strike after expired healthcare transport and taxi ultimatum

The employers called the unions' demands rather unrealistic and said they were surprised at the action "on the back of the group they say they want to help" Employees in healthcare transport are going to strike because employers left an ultimatum...

Ultimatum unions surprise employers

Ultimatum unions surprise employers

KNV also sees that it makes no sense to try to make an adjusted proposal for parts. Employers Care Transport and Taxi (KNV) recently made a final offer to the unions, which included a wage increase of more than 12%.…

Employers Healthcare Transport and Taxi surprised about unions

Employers Healthcare Transport and Taxi surprised about unions

NEA Index 2023 11,3% or higher. The expiration of the ultimatum means that the collective labor agreement wage increase may not be passed on in the rates. Employers Healthcare Transport and Taxi are surprised about the hesitation of trade unions in the final offer. The employers in…

Dramatic negotiation of the collective labor agreement for Healthcare Transport and Taxi

Dramatic negotiation of the collective labor agreement for Healthcare Transport and Taxi

KNV can no longer follow the thinking of the trade unions. After nine rounds of negotiations for a new collective labor agreement for Healthcare Transport and Taxi, the trade unions FNV and CNV are pulling the plug from the negotiations, after the employers made a final offer. According to Meindert…

Tension between trade union and employers Healthcare transport and Taxi

Tension between trade union and employers Healthcare transport and Taxi

Even with raging staff shortages, employers seem unwilling to come up with improvements. Last Friday, a delegation from the FNV, together with the CNV, again entered into talks with employers to negotiate the new Collective Labor Agreement for Healthcare Transport and Taxi. This…

De Lijn will play an important role in customized transport for GTL

De Lijn will play an important role in customized transport for GTL

Do Minister Peeters and MOW want to bring customized transport back to De Lijn? The MORA passenger mobility committee is currently working on an advice on a draft decision of the Flemish Government concerning the Flemish Transport Authority. In the frame…

KNV speaks to State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen

KNV speaks to State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen

KNV emphasized that collective transport should have an exceptional position. Last Monday, Royal Dutch Transport met State Secretary Heijnen of I&W. KNV chairman Bertho Eckhardt and KNV director Carlo Cahn took the opportunity to improve care and taxi transport and the…

Taxi sector must draw up a corona strategy itself

Taxi sector must draw up a corona strategy itself

By taking preventive measures, we will hopefully be able to sufficiently inhibit the virus in time. When it is up to the Minister of Health Kuipers, general corona measures such as a lockdown must be avoided. In any case, that means that specific…

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