Vegas Taxi Driver: The Las Vegas Taxi Driver Blogger Will Be Back

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.

Vegas Taxi Driver: The Las Vegas Taxi Driver Blogger Will Be Back

The Las Vegas Taxi Driver Blogger Will Be Back

The Las Vegas Taxi Driver Blogger Will Be Back

by Phil Staudt
Vegas Taxi Driver
July 18, 2010

I apologize for not being diligent in posting regularly recently to this blog. I have been very busy working on some other online projects, but it is almost time for me to get back to doing some blogging. I have not been a cab driver for 1 1/2 years, and I was only a Las Vegas taxi driver for less than five years, in 1994 and 1995, and up until Feb 2009. I was also a cab driver in Portland, Oregon back in 1990. I never wanted to be a cab driver, even for one day, but I have suffered some serious set-backs at different times in my life. The most recent was having a stroke in 2008 while I was working as a cab driver for Western Cab Company in Las Vegas. Everything was fine, and I kept on working, but I lost my ability to talk and write, because of aphasia caused by the stroke, and I had to spend lots of time rehabilitating and learning how to talk and write all over again. I still have problems with it, and speaking and writing is way more difficult for me than it ever was before.

So, I guess this blog article is to let anyone who stumbles across the Vegas Taxi Driver Blog know, that the Vegas Taxi Driver will be doing more blogging in the future.

The comments have all approved, except for the spam, and the one that stated with one F word after another that I did not know how to use English (which was spelled wrong) and that I was boring and a waste of his time.

Now that I am not beholden to anyone, and am not employed in the Las Vegas taxicab field, I have considered starting over with new articles where I can say whatever I want, without being concerned about repercussions. We'll see.

by Phil Staudt
Vegas Taxi Driver
July 18, 2010