VIDEO — WEX BackStory: Who’s behind the war on Uber?

By Richard Pollock, Ed Sykes
Published July 1, 2014 3:05pm ET
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VIDEO — WEX BackStory: Who’s behind the war on Uber?
In this April 3, 2014 photo, a smartphone is mounted on the glass of an Uber car in Mumbai, India. Riding on its startup success and flush with fresh capital, taxi-hailing smartphone app Uber is making a big push into Asia. The company has in the last year started operating in 18 cities in Asia and the South Pacific including Seoul, Shanghai, Bangkok, Hong Kong and five Indian cities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) | Rafiq Maqbool

Ride-share services like Uber and Lyft are quickly growing in popularity across the country, but some aren’t on board with the new trend. Among them, groups representing taxi fleets and drivers are laying siege to the new trends, calling them unsafe and unregulated.

In this latest installment of WEX BackStory, Senior Investigative Reporter Richard Pollock digs into one trade group’s background.

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