Re: Re: Greatest Rock Band EV
By: metalhead to Mike S on Fri Oct 02 2015 09:34 pm
> MS> same amount regardless of how much they made, so I had no reason to
> MS> favor them. And the second reason was that we rarely asked customers
> MS> were they were going, so I really had no way of knowing which calls wer
> MS> the 'good' ones.
>
> Same here, we as drivers asked the customers where to. I guess all drivers
> get that feeling at times, especially after a long night with no pay.
>
Way back when I first started driving a cab it was for the big company in
town, and they also owned a comms company, so when I asked them if I could
have a cell phone in my cab their answer was sure, as long as you get it from
us, along with service thru us. This was back in 1985, and I had just bought
my first taxi, a Ford LTDII that I also bought from the cab co. and so they
installed the cell phone in the car for me as well. As it was a cab, not a
personal car, they mounted it on a mounting bracket that also held the meter,
so the phone was on display for all to see. Well, that led to several drivers
accusing me of calling in false calls so I could be on the cab stand when a
good call would go out. I tried to explain to some of the drivers I was
friendly with that the phone had so much static on it, that if I tried to do
that the phone operators at the co. would recognize me calling in! That was
back in the days of analog cell service. In fact it was so long ago, I was
getting service thru Cellular One, but they didn't have any towers in Fort
Lauderdale yet, so they were leasing lines from AT&T. For the first 1 or 2
years I had that phone the ROAM light was on until they finally got their own
towers setup. Even tho lots of drivers accussed me of doing all manner of
things while I was driving at the big company, in fact I only ever did one
thing 'wrong'. Unlike most of the other cab companies I've worked for the big
one covers the entire county, rather than a smaller area within it, and back
when they had voice radio dispatch it was fairly common for some drivers to
lie about where they were, trying to say they were closer to where they
thought the job was in hopes of getting the job. One time, one driver that I
really didn't like, and who was always trying to make trouble for me had been
dispatched to a call, then 10 minutes later the dispatcher called him asking
him how close he was because they were calling back, then 5 minutes later yet
again they were calling back, and again in another 5 minutes, so he must have
either been much further away from the job than he really was, or he might
have had a fare in his cab while he accepted the call, or something like
that, well after the 3rd call back, I called into the office acting like I
was the customer (it was a hotel, not a residence), and told them to cancel
the call. Just to screw with that driver. I was on the other side of the
county at the time, but I'm sure at least one or more other cabs were going
to the hotel to see if they could steal the job, as that driver had a
reputation of lying, or "stretching his hood" as we used to call it.
-MikeS
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