Re: Re: Greatest Rock Band EV
By: metalhead to Mike S on Sun Oct 04 2015 10:37 pm
> MS> and told them to cancel the call. Just to screw with that driver. I was
> MS> on the other side of the county at the time, but I'm sure at least one
> MS> or more other cabs were going to the hotel to see if they could steal t
>
> Stuff like that, I understand, and this is also why I don't miss the cab
> business. It's a shame that people have to drive cab in the first place;
> nobody else would hire me at the time, for regular work, so I resorted to th
> lowest budget cab company in the city, and on slow nights (or days) I'd be
> parking at the greyhound station like a fisherman with only a hook, because
> some of these cars didn't even have "TAXI" printed on them anywhere. It was
> really hopeless.
>
> Are you still driving? How long did you do it for?
>
To answer your questions in order, no, I don't still drive a cab. I barely
drive a car anymore, but that's another story for another day. As for how
long I drove cab, well I started in 1983, drove for a couple of months full
time at night, at various times during this time I also would sometimes go
back to working in my family business, so then would only drive part time.
This was until 1986 when I stopped driving cab totally, also quit doing drugs
& drinking at the same time. I went back to driving cab in 1993 full time,
and it was with this cab company that I managed to buy 6 cabs, then became
partners with a guy with 6 more cabs. I actually stopped driving sometime
around 1996 and started dispatching. I dispatched at night, my partner
dispatched during the day, and we got paid for doing that with 2 free cabs.
When I say free, what I mean is we didn't have to pay the weekly 'lease' that
owner/drivers have to pay to the company for their car(s). In 1999 I moved
from So Fla to east TN, and had a friend move up there with me, and I took 4
Dodge Diplomats with me, and I started a cab company in the small town where
I moved to. Unfortunately it didn't work out like I would have wanted it to.
In September of 99 slightly more than a week before my 40th birthday I had a
heart attack, and found out why city health care is better than rural health
care. Or I shouldn't say why, rather just that healthcare just IS better in
more metropolitan areas. So that was the complete end of me and the cab
business. I sold 1 of the cabs on eBay to a guy that collects policecars, I
gave one to my buddy that moved up there with me (he had been my only other
driver beside myself). One I traded in on a car I bought on eBay from a car
dealer in NJ. At the time I was living in WV, and I was originally going to
take a bus but when I checked, the bus fare was something like $129.00 or
something like that, and the dealer also had a $100.00 fee I think it had to
do with a temp tag, or something like that, so I called them and asked if
they took trade-ins. The dealer said yes, but that he couldn't give me a
quote over the phone. I told him as long as he would give me a minimum of
$100.00 I would be happy, and he said he would do that. So by driving the cab
up there I saved myself $229.00. When I was in TN I had all 4 cars painted
school bus yellow (or chrome as they call it), but when I had moved to WV the
girl I was living with lived next to her parents, and her mother didn't like
the yellow color, so I got some cheap blue paint and painted the car with a
paint roller! When I pulled into the car dealers lot and said hello, and he
realized that was the car I wanted to tradein, he started to laugh, and he
went into the office, and said something to all the salesmen there (it was a
slow day) then he went around the side of the building, where some cars were
being washed, and he comes around the corner with another guy and he's
telling him about a car that just came in, and he wants him to detail it
extra special, to make it look like it was new again, and the other guy is
nodding his head in agreement, then he looks at the car the salesman is
pointing at, and he freaks out! It took the salesman like 10 minutes to calm
the guy down, and let him know that he wasn't serious!
Looks like I wandered off topic a bit, and typed a bit much as well, so I'll
stop doing that now.
-MikeS
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