Sentences with phrase «with cab drivers»

We're all familiar with cab drivers who take the long way around, but what about cabbies who tell you that your hotel has burned down and offers to take you to another (where they collect a commission)?

The Grabby Cabby We're all familiar with cab drivers who take the long way around, but what about cabbies who tell you that your hotel has burned -LSB-...]

I've been smiling at strangers, making conversation with cab drivers, helping people carry bags and open doors.

On our past trips to both Mexico and Cuba, we made arrangements with cab drivers to take us into town (we installed the car seats) and then pick us up at a specified time and place.

We negotiated with our cab driver to hang on to our car seat, and he picked us up at a designated spot and time.

«It's tragic what happened with that cab driver.

While some people won't be impressed with Boris» sweary response, many others may struggle to side with a cab driver yelling abuse at a cyclist out of the car window.

Instead Gray hangs out with a cab driver (Alan Cumming) and visits a gay bar for the first time.

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.

Always make sure to set a price with your cab driver before you get in no matter how short the ride.

I loved the interview, but at times it reminded me of when I was in Germany, 3 towns away from home, had missed the last train and was trying to communicate with a cab driver who spoke very little german and no english, and we spoke pretty broken german and no turkish haha... good times.

However last night in Toronto, a cyclist had a loud argument with a cab driver and the next thing residents heard was a sickening crunch and a man screaming for help - the cabbie rammed the cyclist against a pole and severed his leg.

If you get into a physical confrontation with a cab driver, the restaurant staff, or the police officers — this can result in additional charges being filed against you.

Not exact matches

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.

I never have to fumble with cash to pay a cab driver.

Their smartphone app Uber lets users summon a black car or cab with a tap on a virtual map and track the driver's ETA.

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.

One of the first to market was San Francisco — based Uber, which lets users virtually hail available cab and limo drivers with the touch of a button, via their phone's GPS.

The app connects folks to drivers by ordering rides through their smartphones and can pay their cab fare just like they would if riding with another ride - share company.

Yet more affluent and cosmopolitan Chinese have flocked to Uber's service, attracted by fares that are on average at least 35 percent cheaper than taxis, with the cars generally more luxurious than cabs and drivers who offer free water and are typically more polite.

Unlike Uber, New York's yellow cabs prompt riders who pay with credit cards to leave a tip for their drivers.

Many of them were professional drivers with other cab companies or were self employed as a taxi 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.

An Otto truck driver watches the wheel from the cab of his truck as it navigates I - 25 heading to Colorado Springs with a full shipment of Budweiser.

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 cab.

Or again: The draft «is pointlessly, relentlessly repetitious, and the reader has the curious sensation of being trapped by a lost cab driver trying to bluff his way through town, while the same three or four ideological landmarks keep reappearing with no cogency of method or presentation.»

A cab driver (yes, there was a time where I talked about Shajar al - Durr with just about anyone) once told me Umm Ali made rice pudding and not bread pudding to celebrate Shajar's death.

Drivers had a new sense of urgency, most pedestrians vanished from the street to fill their bellies, and our cab driver broke his fast with a cigarette.

We were promptly greeted by the heat, humidity, and a swarm of cab drivers all vying for our attention and negotiating different rates with us.

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.

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.

The cab driver caught up with him but fell and broke his ankle during a brief struggle, police said.

A 61 - year - old cab driver posted on Facebook early today that city and state politicians were to blame for his financial ruin — then pulled up to the gates of City Hall and shot himself dead with a shotgun, authorities said.

With expanding ride hailing on the docket for a potential special session this month, a consortium of traditional livery and cab companies have launched an anti-Uber digital ad that highlights the crimes committed by drivers.

The first measure will create more transparency in cab drivers» travels by outfitting their vehicles with equipment to record and store all fare data, including passenger pickup and drop - off locations, and make the information available to riders.

Mr. Asiedu Nketia, who was on his way to the Ashanti Regional capital in the company of other party officials, drove into the Daewoo Matiz cab with registration number, BA 2507 - 14, after the driver of the cab riskily crossed into their lane.

At a roundtable talk with cab industry officials and state Assembly lawmakers in Manhattan today, Uber faced pushback from its taxi and livery car competition over a bill they argue would allow less stringent driver background checks, rider safety standards and insurance coverage than NYC requires for the app's drivers.

There was heavy lobbying on both sides of the issue — with yellow cab drivers who were against the legislation surrounding the Capitol with their cabs and livery drivers who spent hours debating legislators in the halls.

The mayor was pummeled by the apps, particularly Uber, which ran ads highlighting the service's popularity with lower - income, minority New Yorkers who were trying to earn some extra money as drivers or were just happy to finally get a cab in a part of town where yellow taxis wouldn't venture.

They include New York officer Ivan Marcano, who was shot in the chest by three men robbing a cab driver when he happened to drive up to the scene on a date with his then - girlfriend.

«32BJ is standing with its allies in the NY Taxi Workers Alliance, which includes Uber drivers, Taxi and Green cab drivers, against the legislation Uber is pushing in Albany to create on - off insurance for app - based car service drivers,» said 32BJ president Hector Figueroa in a statement.

«He has a soaring affection among the youth and downtrodden with his Various empowerment programs and communities development projects which include Bursary awards and Scholarship, provision of Pipeborne water, provision of Electricity to rural and urban communities across the state, provision of non-higher price cab for taxi drivers, weekly empowerment of widows and aged.

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.

A Circuit Court in Akim Swedru has remanded into Police custody, Louis Adomako, a 33 - year - old phone repairer charged with robbery of taxi cabs from their drivers around villages near Akim Akoroso near Oda in the Eastern Region.

Comparing GPS with London cab drivers, Wesson paints a picture of the need to use feedback to augment, rather than replace, our knowledge and skills.

You're familiar with the London taxi cab driver's study?

As we were shooting, Steve Harvey and his team prank photobombed us, Ben Stiler took photos with anxious fans outside of his hotel, two cab drivers got into it over a red light and I got the leftover whiffs of the garabge lined up along the street the night from before!

Looks like a super fun time with the girls celebrating and I love the quote to the cab driver... that is classic!

When Joanne strikes up a friendly conversation with African immigrant Abraham Kanga (Isaach De Bankole) and realizes that they have both been branded by their extraterrestrial abductors, she enlists the aid of the amiable cab driver and market worker in solving the perplexing mystery.

Rowan Atkinson's obsession with automobiles is addressed in this comical profile featuring his discussions with therapists, used - car dealers, the police and cab drivers around London.