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There's the obvious choice of the dispatch company they work for.
by rtkwe 7y ago
There's the obvious choice of the dispatch company they work for.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don’t think all taxi drivers work with a dispatch company. Most just pick people up at the side of the road don’t they?
- munk-a 7y agoI think that's a mis-categorization - I do agree that these exist (and a lot of them fall into the "airport taxi" class since that's a reliable place to get business) and a cab operating in such a manner sounds plausible to be an independent contractor. But organizations like Yellow Cab exist and is the way most folks hail a cab, even at hotels - when you ask the concierge to get a cab for you they'll almost certainly call a local company and ask for a cab to be sent over - someone actually needs to be monitoring that phone, and the logistics of each cabbie having a phone in the car is kinda crazy "Oh ernie is currently driving someone, bart might be available I'll call him" so there is a central dispatching center with a few employees that just help make sure that the cabs are well distributed to quickly respond to calls.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> they'll almost certainly call a local company and ask for a cab to be sent over In my experience they just step outside and wave one down.
- rtkwe 7y agoThose mostly also belong to a bigger company that handles call in dispatches.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don't think they've ever had radios in though, doesn't seem likely that they also take dispatches.
- rtkwe 7y agoYou don't need a radio now because of cell phones...
- chrisseaton 7y agoI said they never had radios in the past. These aren't radio taxes. They pick people up from the side of the road. That's most taxies in my experience.
- Frenziefrenz 7y agoNo… no, they don't. O-o
- rtkwe 7y agoMost will do both dispatched pickups and hailed pickups as I understand it.