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Cab company asking drivers to prepay fees
- Cabbies asked the San Francisco Taxi Commission Tuesday to bar the city's largest taxi company, Yellow Cab, from making drivers prepay their gate fees each month.
Where are the cabs?
- He ignores your phone calls, makes you wait and sometimes stands you up on a Saturday night. He’s your San Francisco taxi driver, and you just can’t call it quits.
- He ignores your phone calls, makes you wait and sometimes stands you up on a Saturday night. He’s your San Francisco taxi driver, and you just can’t call it quits.
Cabbie’s DUIs jeopardize permit
- A longtime city cabdriver with a string of drunken driving arrests is battling to retain his right to drive a taxi in The City.
- A longtime city cabdriver with a string of drunken driving arrests is battling to retain his right to drive a taxi in The City.
Fenty replacing taxi commission members who opposed meters
- Three members of the D.C. Taxicab Commission who opposed replacing zone fares with time and distance meters will be replaced by new mayoral appointees.
Taxi meter enforcement under way in the District
- Inspectors were poised to hit meterless cab drivers with $1,000 fines Sunday, the first day of enforcement of the city’s switch to a time and distance meter fare system after months of debate and protest.
- Inspectors were poised to hit meterless cab drivers with $1,000 fines Sunday, the first day of enforcement of the city’s switch to a time and distance meter fare system after months of debate and protest.
Reagan airport to bar District cabs operating without meters on June 1
- D.C. cabs that don’t have meters installed in them will be barred from picking up passengers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport starting June 1.
Mayor: Cabbies face June fines for failing to install meters
- D.C. cab drivers have until June 1 before the city begins fining them $1,000 for not having time-and-distance meters in their vehicles, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced Tuesday.
Cab drivers face May 1 deadline as judge backs Fenty on meters
- A D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday backed the mayor’s authority to force District taxis to install time-and-distance meters, giving the city’s nearly 7,000 cab drivers just 10 days to make the switch from zone to meters.
Judge backs taxis’ switch to meters
- A D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday upheld the mayor’s authority to force District taxis to install time and distance meters, giving the city’s nearly 7,000 cab drivers just 10 days to make the switch from zone to meters.
Few D.C. cabs ready as meter deadline looms
- With three weeks remaining until all D.C. cabs are required to power up their time and distance meters, few of the city’s roughly 7,000 licensed taxi drivers have had the equipment installed in their vehicles.
Taxi drivers protest exclusive contracts
- Being a cab driver in Baltimore is far from easy, says taxi driver Hassan Bouh.
County may tighten leash on cab drivers
- Taxicabs looking to pick up fares in Anne Arundel may face tougher regulations that could force out independent drivers while requiring all drivers to be more polite.
Group: More cabbie strikes ahead
- Many District cab drivers stayed home Monday to protest the impending switch from zone fares to time-and-distance meters, but Mayor Adrian Fenty offered no signal that he would change his mind at the 11th hour.
