Charles Aruya

Tarlen Car-Sharing

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Working with claude code if done right is like working with a colleague you can trust. Real high end experience

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If you’re planning your next trip, or not sure where to explore next, we have a ton of travel inspiration for you:

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If you’ve grown up in Mzansi, or lived here long enough, it’s easy for it to feel familiar and ordinary.

The places you drive past every day stop surprising you.

The beauty that others travel across the world to see starts to feel normal.

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Still, life gets busy. Deadlines, routines, and responsibilities pull your attention away from what makes living here remarkable.

That’s why here at Tarlen we share places worth seeing, experiences worth having, and corners of the country worth rediscovering.

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We’re still early, but I keep wondering:

Who will be the first carsharing millionaire?

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I’ve always been fascinated by trivias about automotive “firsts”. It's why I know that:

* Karl Benz built the first fuel-powered car.
* His wife, Bertha Benz, took the first long-distance road trip, traveling 194 km to prove cars were viable.

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We believe carsharing can become a real wealth equalizer here, a system that puts money in people’s pockets, instead of innovations that drain them, like buy-now-pay-later schemes that push people toward what they can’t afford.

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Tarlen is taking over Jozi one host at a time.

Book the latest Hyunda Staria in Jozi.

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Tarlen is taking over Jozi one host at a time.

Book the latest Hyunda Staria in Jozi.

https://t.co/9GZXGW0dQ0

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There are two people in every relationship:

Partner 1: "Okay, I have our passports, boarding passes and car rental reservation."
Partner 2: "Where are we going again?"

Which one are you?

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Planning your summer holiday? These apps can help make planning your trip easier:

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There are other options available like renting the vehicle to a professional company that operates an e-hailing fleet. These companies handle the licensing, compliance, and daily operations while you earn a steady fee.

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With the updated e-hailing laws making it harder for individual drivers to operate, car owners who rely on their vehicles for income need to explore other models that can keep their earnings coming.

One such model is carsharing.

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Carsharing platforms allow owners to rent out their cars to trusted drivers for periods ranging from a few days to a month. This gives owners more control and creates a business model that scales without depending on how many hours they can personally drive.

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Yup, that's me!

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All that these rules will accomplish is increasing costs to the drivers, making them even bigger targets and setting the e-hailing industry back.

But if you're reliant on e-hailing to earn an income, there are smart alternatives to consider.

https://t.co/i2cXtPgeAf

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South Africa has introduced new rules for e-hailing drivers. They’re meant to protect people earning through Uber, Bolt, and similar platforms, but they read as backward and out of touch.

Some of the changes include:

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* Drivers must hold an operating licence.
* Cars must be branded to show the platform they work with.
* Panic buttons must be installed.
* Drivers can only take rides inside authorised areas.