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Angry Drivers
Passengers from hell? Complaints or suggestions for Uber and Lyft? Glaring problem with the industry? Do you have stories of your horrible experiences with rideshare services? Leave your comments here and share your stories.
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As a driver or passenger, have you experienced any thing during a rider share experience that REALLY made you angry? I mean ready to pop mad!
Not really!
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In the Battle of Rideshare Versus Taxi the Driver Always Loses
A lot has been written about ride-share services like Uber threatening the livelihood of cab drivers. In most of these ...
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Mean, Spiteful, tazer-totin' woman (from Poke Salad Annie)
A Passenger from Heck Story I was finishing out Sunday night in my usual panic to make the 65-ride bonus. ...
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As a driver, what are some annoying things passengers do to you?
Some passengers just don’t get it. What are some things that annoy you? Add to the list and let me ...
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A Hack's Art
Here's what I did to pass the time between fares during my cab career. Most of these were done at ...
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Sir, Sir what are ten life hacks you can give me that will get me ahead if I carry them out with discipline, " said the young pax to the wizened Uber driver.
If you do these ten things, you will die a contented person. They take no prior training. They take no ...
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Has Uber and Lyft killed the taxi business?
I'm a dispatcher, they haven't killed us but they have surely given us a wound we can't really recover from. ...
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Ambassadors from Other Cities: The Global Culture of Cab Drivers
* In 2003 the Public Chauffeur Training Institute was located at Harold Washington College on Lake Street downtown. This was ...
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‘Suicide Surcharge’ or Crucial Fee to Fix the Subway? Taxi Drivers Brace for Battle Over $2.50 Charge
Another death-rattle for the cab industry. (via New York Times)
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My interview with Alex Cohen on Spectrum Channel One this week
I was ready to debate Uber and Lyft but the chickens did not show up they declined invitation.https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/inside-the-issues/2019/08/09/rideshare-drivers--have-their-concerns-been-heard-?cid=share_clip
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What do they not tell you about being a Uber/Lyft driver?
What they don’t tell you… Well for one thing, that I would have a constant crick in my neck from ...
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It's time to call Rideshare what it is: Taxi
Riding my bike around Chicago these days I'm always wary of cars pulled over, idling by the curb, or, more ...
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I Quit Just in Time
In 2012 I walked away from the taxi business never to return. Looking back on it now I feel fortunate ...
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Median Taxi Medallion Price in Chicago Down to $26,500
The Auction Flop (via Chicago Dispatcher)Think this is a real death-rattle for the cab industry...
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"For Amusement Only"
He weighed an easy four hundred pounds. More weekday afternoons than not, he'd pull a chair up to one of ...
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Where Hack began
Before I wrote a book or even a blog entry about my cabbie days, I made a 'zine called Hack. ...
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A Conversation with Dmitry Samarov—author of "Hack"
Watch this video filmmaker John McNaughton made shortly before I quit driving.
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Uber paid hackers $100K not release hacked user data... a year ago
Crazy. "Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach ...
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Isn't it possible that the video of the Uber crash was shot later for cover up?
https://ride.guru/lounge/p/wow-video-shows-driver-in-autonomous-uber-was-looking-down-moments-before-fatal-crash
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Yellow Cab Garage becomes "Happy Place"
I rode by the old Yellow Cab garage the other day, where I picked up the cars I drove for ...