Shuddle has responded to the allegations by citing its own internal hiring processes, one that CEO Nick Allen touts as a faster alternative for state regulation, which can take a few weeks to fully process. Because if there's one thing you want to do when certifying your workers to care for children, it's rush the background check. The company does performs its own checks, interviewing applicants and running their driver's licenses and SSNs through a national database.

Shuddle CEO Nick Allen told USA Today that his company's hiring practice "exceeds current requirements, including TrustLine, which is outdated, approves applicants to the registry prior to background check completion, and is limited to the state of California." In fact, only five percent of applicants actually get contracted as drivers. "We are not opposed to legislation around the transporting of minors," Allen continued. "Everyone here is coming from the same place."