Safety is status-neutral. Safety is not related to your incorporation status. Safety is related to your training, to your experience, to your hours of training when you take your courses, and to your on-site training experience. It has no relation per se to your status.
From the beginning, this whole notion that tax and safety are jumbled into the Driver Inc. model.... That's the problem. That is the narrative that we have to break. I would rather call these folks not Driver Inc. but empowered drivers. Empowered drivers are by far more sustainable, more profitable and safer. Drivers who are unsafe should be weeded out. That is not a status-based issue but a safety-based issue.