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The Last Cowboy
by
Kimberly Berry
Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Arts,
Atlantic Canada Studies
at
Saint Mary's University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada
(c) copyright by Kimberly Berry 1997 18 April 1997
| The small excerpt below is just a token of the kind of study she has done in Canada about the class culture that develops around primarily taxi drivers and other working class. She really does point out the various kinds of class culture that pervades every city that has a taxi business. It would be good to know what other classes think of you while your in the business. "The taxi driver may be a
man or a woman, from any economic background and from any race or ethnic group.
However, Halifax taxi drivers are predominantly white, male, and, by virtue
of occupation working class. Although drivers come from a diverse economic
background and have varying levels of formal education, many share a working
class background and all share a similar public image of being low income,
uneducated, and working class. In his article "Comment on the Personal Aspects
of a Small City Taxi Service," David Trojan describes the "considerable confusion"
experienced by several people when they discovered he was a university professor.
Trojan suggests that the driver's status is usually "accepted as lower than
the rider's social status" and many Halifax taxi drivers confirm this: |
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Dedicated to the loved ones of taxi and livery drivers who were murdered on the job. The Problem of Robbery of Taxi Drivers Future Guides and issues that they expect to address Also: |
| It is so much better being informed. The International Taxi Driver's Safety Council Invites you to visit their web site at http://www.itdsc.org./ Find out: |
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Requirements
for taxicab driver's permit for CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA. Clark County Municipal Codes for Taxis |
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Federal Crimes Enforcement Network Department of the Treasury (USA Patriot Act FactSheet only) The Web Edition of The Founders' Constitution is a joint venture of the The Liberty Fund also has THE ONLINE LIBRARY OF LIBERTY The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought. The website is provided by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The Foundation develops, supervises, and finances its own educational activities, with the goal of fostering discussion and thought on enduring topics pertaining to the creation and maintenance of such a society.
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U. S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration Is this all the Gov. has to help you on one of the most dangerous
Jobs in the world.
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| No matter how mad I get,
I still love my country. If anyone can help or needs help use this knowledge
in this PDF to guide
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| Although I did find this little jewel. Tips for Taxi & Livery Drivers: Be ready for a download, it's about 5 meg+ |
| Improve your knowledge of the business The New York City - Taxicab Fact Book
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Article: Cameras in Taxi's
Interesting development: Cameras in Public Vehicles draw the attention of even CNN. Even though through an irresponsible event created by an assailaint who viciously murdered Pairoj Chitprasart, 08/20/04, Las Vegas, Nevada by pouring a flammable substance on him and burned him to death , was caught by his own confession to a friend.
In what seemed to be a contradiction to actual events, flames also ignited drivers to unity to at least be able to demand something from Taxi Authority while public opinion was in their favor.
In my humble opinion, the entire paradigm of putting cameras in cabs is somewhat like what the villagers did in King Kong They would sacrifice one person, albeit, over and over again to prevent further destruction to the village.
How many deaths does it take to make the intimidation factor work that implies,
when you kill someone in our cabs we will catch you, maybe. First, you would
also have to calculate how many gumbas of the total number of gumbas that
will be intimidated by a camera.
Then you must also discount any knowledgeable creep that may want to learn
how to disengage the system just in case, there is any trouble.
Now I would think that the other part of the equation that still implies something regarding a human sacrifice in the area of privacy. The Taxi Authority has openly argue in the Camera Regs below, "Neither the United States Constitution nor the Nevada Constitution expressly provides for a right to privacy." All more or less based on their fine tuning of the legal definition of any rights to privacy.
Maybe this tells me that I could sell jamming devices to drivers that want
privacy of their conversations because they can not guaranty to anyone that
the supervisor doesn't have an override button, and isn't going to be listening
to all your conversations for his own fun & profit.
They judiciously narrowed in favor of a certain degree of privacy based on
reasonable requirements on the purchase of the ride also purchases a degree
of privacy. They have my applause.
I have to re-read it to see if they have to create the need to influence
the insurance companies to even pay more incentive to taxi companies when
they pay a third party security company to handle all 911 calls created when
a driver/g-force initiated call occurs. This would be a great company for
small group of entrepreneurial cab drivers to start.
T/A Camera Regs
And do they just want us to continue to be quiet little lambs and go along
with the rest of the program.
Link for the Driving Poor:
Taxi Drivers and the Regulation of the
Taxi Industry in Los Angeles
Professor Gary Blasi
UCLA Law School and
UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations
Professor Jacqueline Leavitt
Department of Urban Planning
UCLA School of Public Affairs
A small excerpt of the first paragraph
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Six years ago, the City of Los Angeles granted new taxi franchises for the
first
time in a quarter century. At the time, the Los Angeles Business Journal estimated
that more than $3 billion dollars in business was at stake. A lobbyist for
the taxi industry was quoted as saying, “Millions upon millions of dollars
are at take for these companies. And what is decided in the next few weeks
will also determine the livelihoods of thousands of taxicab drivers.”
In this report we examine what has happened to the livelihoods of those drivers
since 2000, as well as how the structure of the taxicab industry has evolved.
What we have found is troubling. We briefly summarize
here a few of our most significant findings:
There are a lot of reasons why people are poor even though they seem to have what might have been called, "a good job".
The Owners Of This Country - George Carlin
Music is also being dedicated to the revolution in thought that is occurring in this country.
This next technical document suggests to San Francisco local government to
go with split meter system. which they are now on a leasing option to drivers.
They also speak about the problem incorporating multi-drop, multi-destination
rides into the pricing structure.And several other issues involving the meter.
The report explains that they have studied the taxi business around the world.
One additional reason why this report is so valuable.
An additional observation of this report that really caught my eye was the suggestion to make the meter split to be in favor of the driver to 55% after paying for gas.
There are many issues that would be good for a driver to understand and take advantage of regarding their destiny in the taxi driving business in Las Vegas. This report has specific examples of efficient use of taxi's. In my mind the report proves how complicated and how many different types of factors are involved in making business decisions in any part of making money in the taxi/livery business. Which incidentally, includes limo service analysis.
Of all the research information for the livery business I have found. This is not for the weak of heart, the wimpy or the whiners. The report from:San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
"Making Taxi
Service Work in San Francisco"
-- FINAL REPORT --
is probably one of the most extensive and unbiased reports on the subject I have ever read.
What seemed to be the most important part to me was the fact that this report was made for a city that already has Lease Cabs. Which I have heard some drivers claim that this would be a good way to go. Personally I think some cab companies would or may go that way just to shut everybody up and that would be a big mistake for drivers IMHO. So now you have the report making suggestions to go to a metered system and give the drivers 55% of the meter before paying for gas sharing. Or what ever they want to call it. "sharing, yeah right".
We live in a town already on a metered system. Oh my gosh, this report just might be informative. Check it out!
Now this "The report" is a web page that has pretty much what is located below. I put that below so that when the time comes you can quickly go to any part of the report a little more quickly and conveniently. Also, all of the Appendix are not part of the above report.
Making taxi service work in San Francisco
a spur report
November, 2001
Table of contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
summary and recommendations
1. Background
2. Study
Goals
3. Study
Process and Report Structure
4. Issues
with San Francisco Taxi Service
5. SPUR's
Recommended Reforms
6. Phasing
7. Rejected
Options
APPENDIX
A: Glossary of Key terms
APPENDIX
B: Literature Review
APPENDIX
C: Current Taxi Service in San Francisco
APPENDIX
D: Stakeholder Interviews
APPENDIX
E: Extract from San Francisco Administrative Code, Established through
Proposition K (1978)
APPENDIX
F: Glossary of Key terms
APPENDIX
G: Extract from San Francisco Charter, Established Through Proposition
D (1998)
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