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A new ride share venture was just weeks old when Shawn Strain became one of its first Colorado Springs-based drivers in October.

Since leaving the corporate world, where he worked for years as a financial crimes investigator, he had put 4,600 Lyft rides under his belt and developed a love of driving. So when his daughter told him about the Drivers Cooperative — Colorado, he looked it up online and was intrigued by what he saw.

After years of getting squeezed by Uber and Lyft, a national rideshare cooperative is offering drivers equity stakes that Silicon Valley refuses to grant.

Rideshare drivers in Colorado face low pay, long hours, and little control, earning as little as $5.49/hour. The Drivers Cooperative-Colorado (DCC) flips the script. As a worker-owned platform, drivers keep 80% of fares, earn fair wages, and have a voice in their company. Join DCC and be part of a movement transforming rideshare—one driver, one ride, one community at a time.

More than 4,000 drivers have downloaded the Drivers Cooperative of Colorado app since its soft launch in August

A new alternative to Uber and Lyft aspires to give workers more income and more say over their working conditions.

The goal of the co-op is to help drivers when it comes to pay and working conditions, while still providing cheap fares for riders.