Sentences with phrase «cab drivers in»

Echoing a familiar complaint expressed by cab drivers in the U.S., old South African taxi drivers like Peter Moloi accuse Uber of getting preferential treatment from the authorities.

There are approximately 5,500 taxi cab drivers in the city of Boston alone.

The NY Post reported that during a vigil for 61 - year - old driver Douglas Schifter, a taxi union official revealed the suicides of two livery cab drivers in the Bronx.

A polling station organizer of the NPP in Suhum Krobea in the Suhum Constituency, Korsi Dogbe, has also revealed that cab drivers in the area and NPP supporters have vowed never to vote for the President Akufo - Addo in the next presidential election.

When the founders noticed many Muslim cab drivers in New York City were looking for a place to buy halal food in Manhattan, they created their first food cart that quickly grew into a leading destination for American halal fare.

John Worboys - who was a cab driver in the capital - was jailed in 2009 for assaulting 12 women but is suspected of attacking over 100.

Born on Nov. 27, 1929, in Greece, Argea was a cab driver in Las Vegas before trying his hand at caddying.

Gattis arrived in spring training with a reputation for hitting epic home runs and the Bunyanesque new nickname a cab driver in Venezuela had given him: El Oso Blanco, the White Bear.

But Mark Bahouth, who is a cab driver in Syracuse, isn't buying that.

The Oswego Common Council is proposing several amendments to existing law, most notably a «good moral character» clause to limit who can be a licensed cab driver in the city.

A former star football player at South Park High School has been charged with the murder of a taxi cab driver in the City of Buffalo.

Trivia buffs and diehard fans of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront will know that the non-speaking cab driver in the film's famed «taxicab scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger was noted character actor Nehemiah Persoff.

There have been other small roles, a bodyguard in 1982's A Time to Die and the cab driver in The Butterfly Room; however, one of his more memorable cameos is in the opening moments of the horror parody The Silence of the Hams, performing alongside some other famous faces as seen here:

Dissident director Jafar Panahi (The Circle) plays himself as a cab driver in Taxi.

I have a visceral memory of arguing with a cab driver in the brown smog on a hot street in Bangalore... I had just paid him to take me to the Palace of Mysore.

An Unexpected Trip Katherine Lonsdorf's story about being assaulted by a cab driver in Jordan will stick with me for a long time.

Not exact matches

No matter what kind of transport business you're in or whether your fleet consists of taxi cabs, bicycles, or 18 - wheelers, safety for drivers, passengers, other drivers, and your load is of utmost concern.

That said, the real muscle behind the pushback stems from disenfranchised cab operators, who must comply with a complex web of regulations and shell out for insurance, vehicle maintenance and exorbitant licence fees: In Montreal, cab drivers pay around $ 200,000 for a taxi medallion.

The address was actually the headquarters of Montreal's taxi bureau, and the person behind the ambush was Hassan Kattoua, a local cab driver and one of many who are angry at Uber's presence in the city.

It's not that complicated: These drivers are basically fulfilling the role of taxi driver as far as tipping norms are concerned, so add gratuity as though you're in a yellow cab.

In London, it has fended off attempts by drivers of the city's famous black cabs to have the app ruled illegal, and transport bosses decided earlier this year not to impose tough new rules on the app.

He continued: «The popularity of #deleteUber only exists because decent people around the country and world — including the unionized cab drivers Uber hates and targets — took to the streets, occupying airports in defense of refugees, immigrants, and Muslims.»

To James Beshara and Khaled Hussein, founders of San Francisco - based Crowdtilt, the future looks something like this: A Mumbai taxi driver sitting in a queue at the airport dreams of owning his own cab.

Customers became angered after the ride - hailing service did not shutdown service at New York's Kennedy International on Saturday, in solidarity with a work - stoppage called by a cab - driver group.

Some had a hard time getting there — New York City cab drivers had chosen to suspend their service in protest of the ban, while the subway service was being monitored by the NYPD.

Soon after, a number of Chicago cab companies jointly sued the company, alleging Uber is in violation of a number of city and state regulations, and that by allowing any cab driver to use its service, Uber is cashing in on established taxi brand names and reputations to further its own business goals.

«The cab driver was incredibly knowledgeable about the difference between Virgin and Sky in every feature,» Roberts told reporters on Tuesday.

Ride hailing - app Uber is legal in London, according to a High Court ruling that will spark further hostilities between the taxi app and the capital's black cab drivers.

That's because, city by city and state by state, transportation companies of all sorts — cab, sedan, limo — are heavily regulated in terms of the insurance they carry, the structure of their fares, the background screening of their drivers, and the condition of their vehicles.

New employees at Virgin Trains learn about their jobs in a real carriage that has been decommissioned — it even includes a catering car and a train driver's cab.

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You will be tracked down and locked up in no time, compared to just hailing a cab and assaulting / robbing the driver.

When San Diego cab driver BasaalySaeedMoalin was charged with providing material support to terrorists based on surveillance evidence in Dec. 2010, his attorney, Joshua Dratel, tried to get the government's wiretap application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Mexico City taxi drivers snarled traffic in a massive anti-Uber protest in May, complaining that app operators do not have to pay the huge fees that cabs are charged by the government.

The stock market was on fire, and stories about cab drivers and shoe - shine boys bragging about the killing they made in the market should have been a warning that things had gone too far.

Seltz - Axmacher says the remote driver — or a driver in the cab — can at any time electrically or mechanically stop the tractor.

In Colorado, the Department of Transportation worked with Otto for a number of months evaluating the company's technology and joining on test runs before agreeing to let an Otto semi roll along without a driver in the caIn Colorado, the Department of Transportation worked with Otto for a number of months evaluating the company's technology and joining on test runs before agreeing to let an Otto semi roll along without a driver in the cain the cab.

By enabling the vehicle to theoretically hit the road all night while the driver sleeps in the cab «could get the driver to his next destination, or home to his family, faster,» says Ron.

Eurozone growth slows sharply in Q1 - EU budget talks overshadowed by impending Brexit - «Little Cab» is helping female taxi drivers in Kenya

The same Muslim who was your doctor, your accountant, your coffee maker at DD, your cab driver, your NEIGHBOR before 9/11 are still the same Muslim in April 2011.

According to officials, the driver of the Polish truck was found dead in the passenger seat of the cab.

What can Christian clergy offer to the agnostic house painter in New Orleans, the Hindu cab driver, the Muslim short order cook?

And their differing objectives are rooted in different interests: The cab driver is interested in getting around the city; the cartographer is interested in the art and science of mapping urban areas.

After a long, strange cab ride in which the driver corrects our pronunciation of «Tabor» (it's supposed to rhyme with «saber»), we end up at Tissa Stein's bakery, where grains like Red Fife wheat, spelt, and hard white spring wheat are milled on site then transformed into flavorful, crusty breads.

When a cab - driver in Tulsa said recently that soccer to him is «a bunch of queers in short pants, a Communist game, too slow and boring,» he may have been wrong on the first two counts but surely not on the third, at least not in North America.

The likes of Attenborough and friends (Fulham fan before switching his alliance to Chelsea) Comedian Tommy Trinder, MP and Lady of the House the late Gwyneth Dunwoody, who I met several times in my job as a Licence London Cab Driver.

Waiting in the cab, my wife doesn't want the driver to know that the house will be empty for the night.

Reflecting back, I think three factors were in play: 1) laziness (public transit and cabs are abundant in Boston so, yeah, laziness), 2) cheapness (I was a poor research assistant), and 3) confidence (I didn't know the driver well and probably didn't want to seem like a jerk).

The Buffalo businessman also rejected Gov. David Paterson's effort to link the Park51 controversy to the attack on a Muslim cab driver that occurred in NYC yesterday, saying:

It is a big undertaking to decide to go driverless and I think we are a long way from that point, so we will continue to have drivers in cabs.