some passengers deserve a beating
most cab drivers do as well

850 dlrs lease a week only for one driver
280 dlrs gas a week
100 dlrs MTA surchage a week
50 dlrs credit card surchages paid by drivers each week
100 dlrs lost time in trafic
120 dlrs for one day off paid by driver in order to reseve his cab
140 dlrs cafeine and food water.per week
and the total is 1640.dlrs must be generated by the driver in six nights, before he can take any cents home.
the average is 274 dlrs for a 12 hours shift .the worse  is this :drivers make 250 dlrs a night .so they must pay 24 dlrs from their pocket .keep in mind that an out of city trip is a crime againt the driver.

The problem is that the city allows medallions to be bought and sold like commodities.  The owner of a medallion need not be in the taxi business.  Years ago when the medallion system was started, medallions were not allowed to be bought or sold. If you held a medallion, you were required to be directly involved in the taxi business.  That meant that a cab driver could make an honest living, and keep a roof over his head, and food on the table.  The current medallion ownership system allows medallion owners to exploit cab drivers, most of whom work for slave wages. 

The problem no one seems to be addressing is that it's almost noon, and I'm totally sober.

hhaha funny city .the lease cost 130 dlrs a day and the gas cost 50 dlrs with ac and caffe and water with sandwich cost 20dlrs the total is 200 dlrs must be paid from the pocket of this drivers .if he go out of borough he loose 30 min to come back to city and 30 minute will cost hime 30 dlrs.so  four trips to out of city  will make him loose 120 dlrs.wich is his income , at the end he will take home a middle finger.the cause of this is drivers lease thier cab to work in manhattan only the lease dont care for other boroughs so is not driver fault is tlc regulation.i quit that dirty job .i did two years service for free .you dont beleive me go drive it.

if you speak engrish we can try understand u

The cab  lease  is 130 dlrs a day , an other  50 dlrs for the shift  plus cafe water and  sandwich cost 20dlrs the total is 200 dlrs
must be paid from the pocket of the driver .if he goes out of borough he loses
30 minutes to come back to city and 30 minute will cost him 30 dlrs.four trips  out of city will make him lose 120 dlr and
that  is his income , at the end he will
take home  zero dallars.because drivers lease
their cab to work only in Manhattan  .brokers
don’t take in consideration the out of borough trips..
 

This TLC guy needs a little refresher course on his own job - because the 311 complaint website is not 311.com like he said. I guess he's close enough for govt. work.

Just as rude and cocky as their driving habits. Fuck them!

dont blame drivers the way they drive.they have too.you never know who is gonna drive a cab in the future you guys or immigrants with hight degrees and graduate studies, life is bitch.

So can't you just up the meter rate timer, so while standing in traffic, the driver is not at a total loss? As an aside a service that serves "workin folks" should not change shifts when "workin folks" do? A constant source of friction that will not be regulated away? Awesome read ty!

 Jesus...just F it and find a cabbie who'll take you home. He wasn"t the only cabbie that night.

the tlc is a joke take a 24 hr class and pass a bullshit test that ask where the empire state building is located

Cabbie didn't want to drive me to JFK one frozen December morning at 6am (for an early flight). Told him I'll pay him $80. He then stopped under the QBE when another fare flagged him down and wanted to dump me out as this fare was closer to his home. Told him I was already late for the plane. Asshole got $40 and a traffic jam at JFK. Screw taxi drivers who don't want to do their job.

Alex L,

You falsely entitled asshat.  Your claims are more along the lines of non-sequiturs than anything:

-how do you 'forcefully' tell someone to get out?  Doesn't 'force' imply something physical?  Did the words physically break your heart?

-"He wasn't willing to take us anywhere after he pulled over. He basically didn't want to drive over the bridge to Brooklyn." --- really?  Did you put any logic into that sentence?  'Not wanting to take you anywhere' followed by a 'didn't want to drive over the bridge'?  Say you got in the cab in LES Manhattan, as you did, and wanted to get to the West Village.  Does that mean the WV doesn't count as 'anywhere'?  Or is it that the only place that counts as 'anywhere' is Brooklyn? and if only to massage your argument.

Good for the cabbie for telling a dipshit hipster to fuck off.

I didn't realize the law said that on-duty cabs must take you anywhere in the 5 boroughs unless you're a dipshit hipster. 

both of them are assholes, the guy isnt going to drive you, find another cab. threatening him with his badge number is going to do anything cause he clearly DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. 

Are we sure he didn't say, "I'm gonna break-ah you face?"

just for shits and giggles one of these days i might just hail some cabs on a saturday night to go to one of the following places and watch the hilarity ensue:

1. Tottenville, Staten Island
2. Far Rockaway, Queens
3. City Island, Bronx
4. Howard Beach JFK AirTrain Station, Brooklyn (but not JFK Airport so cabbie can't charge me flat fee)

I used to love showing up at LaGuardia late at night and taking rides to the near side of Roosevelt Avenue.  They knew better than to refuse me.