Dubai - Taxi-Turned-Uber Drivers Get a New Lease on Life
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San Diego cab companies insist they aren’t losing customers to the mobile rideshare app Uber. But they are losing money because of it. The cash is following cabdrivers, who are making the jump to Uber in droves. “I don’t have a customer problem. I have enough customers to fill these cabs everyday,” said Anthony Palmeri, who owns taxi dispatcher Yellow Radio Service. “My owners don’t have enough drivers to drive the taxicabs, so the cab sits idle.” The people who own cabs, and the city permits to operate them, often don’t make their living from actually picking up passengers. Their income comes from leasing the vehicles to drivers, who pay them an average of $400 a week and take home whatever profits are left over. By Megan Burks Read more at Speak City Heights, http://www.speakcityheights.org/2014/08/taxi-turned-uber-drivers-get-a-new-lease-on-life/ Video Production: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego http://www.mediaartscenter.org/
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poor guy now Uber x took over most of his black limo jobs
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Uber drivers get paid nothing vs. taxi drivers $2.40 per mile. Time management and customer service skills are important to make it as self employed driver.
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Ex-cab drivers no how to play the game.
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fuck yellow cak they get 500 a week before drver gets anything I'm going with uber former cab driver
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This is the same shit as the regulation of energy... Giving a monopoly over a service to a certain company. Like electricity in Florida for example... you can only buy it from FPL and that is unconstitutional because it should be a free market with competition as a part of the game... Here i see nothing wrong because Uber provides the same service as cabs do except does it better than the cab companies. Either the cab companies jump on board or they get shit on by whats called capitalism.
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After working in the nursing field I got into the taxi driving business about 3 years ago. I thought I would make a decent amount of money...I thought wrong! The taxi company not only does regular fares but also does Medicaid fares. The company makes a lot of money off of the Medicaid passengers and only gives the driver a small portion. I signed up with Uber but unfortunately there is no Uber in Buffalo NY. I was working like a slave day in and day out to pay a lease fee of $200 per day. They had their favorite drivers who they would give good calls to, but as a young soft spoken woman I got nothing. Some days I would end up owing money because I didn't make the $200 required. They called me lazy, how am I lazy when I'm out working a 14-18 hour shift per day? I switched to another cab company. They are so much better. They give a good price for the Medicaid calls and have exellent cash calls on a regular basis. I am more at ease and happy. I don't have to pay a lease. The company takes a percentage out of the total sum for each day which is a fair amount. I'm much happier now and will never go back to that other company.
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They never had a problem until people started leaving them
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fuck yellow, I just quit made a video check it
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Your so cheap at least give a one dollar tip
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UBER does not need to go backwards being more like cab companies lmao they are far far ahead of them with innovation for the industry that cab companies will soon learn their fate as they slowly lose employees or die out .
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UBER IS DOING TO BROKEN TAXI SERVICE WHAT NETFLIX HAS DONE TO BLOCKBUSTER THAT IS, CONVENIENCE AFFORDABLE SUPERV DRIVER EXPERIENCE, THOSE OLD FARTS SITTING ON LOADS OF MONEY AT HOME ARE CRYING BECAUSE THE INDUSTRY IS NO LONGER DOMINATED BY THEM , BIG BROTHER IS IN TOWN AND IT WILL RUN YOUR ASS OUT OF IT EVENTUALLY
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I HAVE RESPECT FOR THIS PERSON, DOOR SEVICE WELL DRESSED, CLEAN, THIS IS WHY UBER IS REVOLUTIONIZING THE INDUSTRY TAKING OVER THE WORLD ! BACK IN THE DAYS YOU WOULD EXPECT A TAXI DRIVER IN A CROWN VIC 98 BROKEN DOWN, DIRTY SMELLY ,AND SOMEBODY TAKING 15 MINUTES TO 20 MIN TO ARRIVE MINIMUM ! wearing shorts t-shirt talking on the phone taking you through long routes to charge you more ! wonder now why they are slowly disappearing, why go to that when uber , simple app one place safe, no money no forced tipping, cheaper !
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I hope Somo enjoys his new lease on life because it most definitely a short term lease, Uber is the greediest, most self serving company I've ever seen in my life, a true wolf in sheep's clothing who is doing all they can to deceive as many people as possible on their way to complete world domination while completely destroying the transportation industry in the process and when that happens it'll be complete chaos. It's such a shame they've managed to go on this illegal charade completely unchecked but sooner or later somebody will either put a stop to it or people will finally see them for what they are but who knows how many lives they'll destroy in the process.
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That was cool enough
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Cab drivers are the worst, very rude people. 10 years ago, I had a 10 hour plane ride with my pregnant wife... after arriving to Reagan National Airport, I tried to take a taxi to Alexandria, VA. Because it was a 5 - 7 min. ride, none of the taxis wanted to take us. My wife was tired and hungry, after pleading and walking to 10 different taxi drivers that was waiting for customers at the airport, finally one of them accepted to take us, but before we even leave the terminal, he pressed on a magic button and charged us $15 plus $9 ride. He was on the phone the whole time and I couldn't even ask him to stop by somewhere to buy food for my wife because I was scared of him being mad and dropping us half way. So thanks Uber for allowing us to have a better option. I LOVE UBER! MOST OF THEM ARE VERY NICE AND VERY POLITE.
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Sorry he was NEVER a London Taxi Driver. He was a minicab driver. Inexorable difference!
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NYC taxi, u have to pay a fee per day to use them. Ubers, u use ur own car
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Tried out Uber Black in my 2006 S500, It was interesting...
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Uber has shaken up the private hire car industry, and I like it that Somo, driving a private hire car, has fewer hassles.
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uber are not regulated
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