Sentences with phrase «of cabbies»

Taxis make up a large part of the traffic in cities, and in the same way it's proved popular with individual owners, the Nissan Leaf electric car appears to have the favor of cabbies.

The Toyota Innova is the favourite choice of cabbies and the new platform for telematic services will be of great help to them as they take long trips and can find some help in case of emergencies.

For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.

A group of cabbies, led by Kattoua, commandeered Wu's grey minivan and prevented him from leaving the scene until city officials arrived, issued him a fine (reports put the amount at about $ 350) and towed his vehicle.

The latest suicide was that of cabby Nicanor Ochisor, who hanged himself in his Queens home March 16.

First up, I thought I would post a picture of the Cabby!

He said that he is going to email me some pictures of the Cabby before he sold it.

There are tons of Cabby fans up that way.

Today I wanted to update you guys on the progress of the Cabby.

I am currently uploading a driving video of the Cabby.

Well, as promised, I shot a video of the Cabby last night.

Last week I polled the audience about painting the engine bay of the Cabby to prep it for the VR6.

I have never heard of a cabbie standing effectively on the last line of defense of democracy or taking the baseball bats out of the hands of disputants by advising and representing them in a resolution process (great barrister work) or making our entire economy secure by their diligence and legal opinions, and preventing literally countless problems from even arising (great solicitor work).

Not exact matches

But now, cabbies may have finally figured out a way to fight Uber, Lyft, and a whole slew of on - demand transit apps that have cropped up in recent years.

The data also shows declining revenues from yellow cab fares — in the first half of 2014, cabbies collected $ 1.06 billion; in the same time period this year, that revenue figure fell to $ 981 million.

One of the biggest factors for Uber's hyper growth is their thinking to improve the overall customer experience — ultimately solving the problem and delivering a payment experience that eliminated this uncomfortable cabbie scenario.

Remember your last cab ride - at the end of a cab ride, the cabbie tells you the fare, and you hand him a credit card — and then, of course, he asks you to pay in cash.

Gene Schriver, executive vice president of No. 2236 on the Inc. 5000, Language Services Associates in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, doesn't speak a lick of French, but it never stops him from effortlessly communicating with foreign business associates, and, at times, cabbies.

In other words, by restricting the market to retain their big slice, cabbies are also restricting the size of the pie.)

The company behind the app was started just 18 months ago in London by a sextet of founders: three cabbies and three financiers and tech experts.

First some of them deleted their accounts when the ride - hailing company did not honor a one - hour work stoppage called by New York cabbies at John F. Kennedy International Airport to protest Pres. Trump's controversial immigration order.

«Cabbie stabbed after Muslim question out of work, worried» - I'm like: what??

IF HE WERE IN THE BACK OF MY CAB, I»D KEEP ONE EYE ON HIM — CABBIES LEARN TO DISTINGUISH A PERSON OF INTEGRITY OR A CON ARTIST VERY QUICKLY — THEIR LIVES DEPEND ON IT.

And I sure as heck don't even think twice about splurging on an ungodly priced lunch of lobster spaghetti if a local cabbie tells me to do so.

New York City cabbies are being driven to the edge of financial ruin and despair as ride - hail apps like Uber and Lyft continue to take their customers, with one driver's take - home pay falling from $ 50,000 a year to some $ 17,000.

THE Sun's cabbie Grant Davis is interviewing the four main party leaders ahead of next week's euro elections.

For yellow cabbies, «it is almost impossible to find work outside of Manhattan, so therefore they will have to pay out of their pockets,» Alexey Medvedovskiy, president of the NYC Taxi Group, said.

MANHATTAN — Crooked cabbies came under the cross hairs Wednesday when the City Council green - lit a set of laws to track taxi drivers» every turn to ensure passengers are not taken for a ride.

The legislation was introduced after TLC officials discovered that thousands of passengers had been gouged by cabbies to the tune of $ 8 million for charging out - of - city rates on local trips.

«I thought maybe he would give $ 500 or $ 1,000, maybe one of those bundles,» Raymond (Buzzy) MacCausland, the lucky cabbie who found the fortune told the Daily News.

Uber cars were involved in more deadly crashes than yellow cabbies in the second half of 2015, according to data the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission released.

London cabbies hail him as «Bozza», he is mobbed pretty much wherever he goes and he commands vast sums of money for his speaking, writing and TV appearances, while at the same time appearing to go through life without ever buying anyone a drink.

Cabbies storm out of meeting with shouts of «clown» at Boris.

However he was left visibly shaken today as received shouts of «clown» and «joke» from the assembled cabbies with one shouting «I voted for you once, I must have been on drugs,» while another shouted.

Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown wrote a letter to the Board of Selectmen of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, Thursday urging them not to revoke the taxi license of Morgan Reitzas, the Martha's Vineyard cabbie who was involved in an altercation with a Republican campaign tracker last weekend.

She also backed the «spirit and mission» of a proposal by Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander that would establish a pay floor for drivers working, as Uber and Lyft cabbies do, as independent contractors.

The hacks accused the city of allowing app - based ride services such as Uber and Lyft to expand unchecked and gobble up traditional drivers» customers — which has led to desperation among cabbies and four suicides since December.

NYC cabbies are being driven to the edge of financial ruin and despair as ride - hail apps like Uber and Lyft continue to take their customers.

In 2000, Maguire's scans of the brains of London cabbies showed they had abnormally large hippocampi, the area of the brain vital for navigation.

In New York City, land of the ubiquitous yellow taxi, cabbies and other motorists find themselves with a bit less room to operate these days.

Matthew Stanley: Along these lines, some years ago, I was in a cab going from this airport in the middle of Indiana to a physics conference and the cabbie said, «Where are you going?»

And so the last time I spoke to you, we were in Anchorage, but we had just come from Juneau and you heard tales of J.D., the cabbie.

From waiters and baristas, to cabbies and cleaning men and women, there are lots of people who help your life run smoothly.

«Unlike cabbies in other cities, London cabbies are forced to learn thousands of street names and routes in order to pass a notoriously difficult...

I mean in honor of yellow, there are yellow cabbies everywhere, and it makes such a fashion statement... and where better to make a statement!

Weaving in and out of the working girls» path is cabbie Razmik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian - immigrant husband and father who adores the more feminine - featured Sin - Dee, but doesn't mind rolling through the car wash (if you know what I mean) with Alexandra as a backup when the two women briefly separate.

Summary: Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers.

New York's fastest cabbie (Queen Latifah) uses her skills beind the wheel of her souped - up car to help an overeager undercover cop (Fallon) pursue a gand of female bank robbers.

This led to a Warner Bros. contract for D'Andrea; he went on to play supporting roles in a number of the studio's films, the best of which was the sympathetic cabbie in Dark Passage (1948).

«All the animals come out at night» — and one of them is a cabby about to snap.