Ride-hailing vehicles wait at a staging area at the San Francisco International Airport in 2020. California requires an in-state driver’s license to drive passengers for ride-hailing services.

If you live in California, Ted Maack just wants to get you where you’re going. However, Maack, who lives in Wyoming but frequently travels to California to take care of his aging mother, is prohibited by state law from giving you a lift. That’s because California requires an in-state driver’s license to drive passengers for ride-hailing companies.  

So, despite Maack’s years of safe driving as a truck driver, the commercial driver’s license he holds from Wyoming and the 56 years he spent living in California, he’s still barred from driving with ride-hailing companies because of where he lives.

The problem gets even more absurd for those living near California’s borders. Drivers in cities like Reno can drop passengers off inside California, but can’t take riders back to Nevada. This forces drivers to choose between eating the cost of the return trip or simply not taking passengers into California. 

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So while Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent the past several months leading the charge against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, arguing that California is open to all immigrants and visitors, it appears visitors from within the United States are less welcome.

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