Totalride: Total Transit launches 'fully-insured, legal' ride-share app in Arizona

Glendale-based Total Transit Inc., the parent company of Discount Cab, is taking on ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft by offering what it calls Arizona's "first and only fully-insured legal" ride share service app. The Total Transit app allows riders to book a ride through personally owned and operated, fully commercially insured drivers who are experienced and have passed verified background checks, including drug and alcohol screenings, said Mike Pinckard, president of Total Transit. "We believe…