Nevada Taxicab Authority Board Does Its Job
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A blog by a Las Vegas taxi driver about Las Vegas, Nevada, including the good, the bad, and the ugly: The Nevada Taxicab Authority, cab company owners and supervisors, Metro Police, dispatchers, door-persons, the "pit", back-loading, front-loading, long-hauling, meter-rolling, high-flagging, run-outs, robberies, drunks, accidents, and mandatory 12 hour shifts. All cab drivers in Las Vegas are employees of the nine taxicab companies that own all the taxis in Las Vegas. Las Vegas has 40 million annual visitors, the 4th busiest airport in the U.S. with an average of 8600 taxi pick-ups per day, 22K conventions a year, and 15 of the 20 largest hotels in the world.
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It was over a year ago that I wrote the above articles. They are still being read by hundreds of viewers every day. A few weeks after writing these articles, I walked away and gave up driving taxi. After seeing my income go down every year and having to work more and more hours in order to pay the bills, I just decided to find something else to do.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority does not care if good conscientious safe drivers with good records quit because of their policies and inability to regulate properly.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority does not care if more and more cabbies are ripping off the Las Vegas visitors to keep from losing their homes and their jobs.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority does not care if the older experienced drivers get fired by some companies (not all) for refusing to try to keep up with the meter amounts of the crooks and thieves.
If you think that making less than $600 a week for working 60 hours a week is a reasonable income for doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, then you and I are in disagreement.
For me, the actions and decisions of the Nevada Taxicab Authority Board caused me personally a lot of grief and hardship and problems, because I was not willing to be a damn crook to make a living.
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