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March2017 TI 40 Pg.Indd MARCHJULY 20102017 •• TAXITAXI INSIDERINSIDER •• PAGEPAGE 11 INSIDER VOL. 18, NO. 3 “The Voice of the NYC Transportation Industry.” MARCH 2017 Letters To The Editor Page 3 • EDITORIAL Insider News By David Pollack Page 4 • Meet The Commissioners IT’S TME TO BUY OR Page 5 • LEASE MEDALLIONS Op-Ed Get prepared to purchase a NYC taxi medallion! yellow cab already, it is a no-brainer to own your own If the city council of the city of New York taxicab and purchase it from a broker listed By Matther Daus, Esq. passes Intros. 1474 & 1475, there will be on the directory page. (Licensed Brokers Page 6 new opportunities for medallion purchas- To Buy Medallions). • ers: men, women, current drivers, and If you cannot afford to purchase a Taxi Attorney investors to save thousands of dollars on medallion, you can lease a medallion and By Michael Spevack each transfer! Intro 1474 will reduce the purchase the vehicle with the opportunity Page 9 current 5% transfer tax charge to the buyer to buy one in the future. (See directory- of a medallion to .05% and eliminate a Where to Lease a Medallion). Leasing a • major fi nancial stumbling block for men medallion has always been the gateway to Puzzle and women who want to purchase or invest medallion ownership. Page 9 in a medallion. By drastically reducing There is another alternative for fl ex- • the 5% Transfer Tax, two drivers pooling ibility; drive for a taxi fl eet by the shift. Motorist and Parking their assets for a down payment will be able to afford Shift rates have never been as affordable as today and Page 15 new business with a new taxicab and be part of the the vehicles have never looked better. It is a stepping • American Dream. If you have experience driving a (Continued on Page 6) Trump May Be The Gift That The Fish Stinks From The Head Keeps On Giving By Larry Fisher By Jerry Kremer The corporate culture that abides lines since the sexual harassment case of Page 17 sexual harassment can only be fostered Susan Fowler has been fi led. This is not • by management willing to overlook bad the fi rst time that the public has borne Quotabel Quotes behavior in favor of seemingly more pro- witness to sex-related horrors performed Page 17 ductive or highly rated employees. This by Uber drivers or Uber management same culture can be seen in both amateur statements. Current CEO Kalanick was • and professional sports, although, since so proud of his success at Uber and his Hotels the television ratings now include more ability to attract women as a result that Page 26 women than ever, sports leagues no he jokingly? said that the name should • longer can afford to turn a blind eye or be changed to “Boober”. The plethora of NYC Economy deaf ear to star athletes violating laws or Uber-driver sexually related incidents has Page 29 social mores. Michael Vick, Ray Rice made our heads spin for years. The mere fact that Uber has doubled down on their insistence on • and others can attest to that. The anti-women culture that inhabits Silicon Valley minimal regulation, specifi cally background checks, Book Signings in general and Uber specifi cally is capturing more head- (Continued on Page 6) Page 31 • Insider Directory TAXI DAVE’S Page 32 • Commissioner’s Corner RADIO SHOW By Merra Joshi WOR-710AM Page 33 • 8:00 – 9:00 PM Broadway Shows Page 37 EVERY SUNDAY! PAGE 2 • TAXI INSIDER • MARCH 2017 Taxi Drivers Wanted Day Night Ft/Pt In Chelsea Manhattan, Steps To Subway! TAXI DAVE’S 6 Nights $670: Must Drive Sunday 5 Nights $570: Must Drive Sunday RADIO SHOW These Prices Include; WOR-710AM Sales Tax, Cc Fees, And Hybrid Fees. EVERY SUNDAY! 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While I was there then Bloomberg ,between both of them they destroyed Editor-in-Chief for inspection of my yellow cab, ten, that’s right ten brand the taxi business ,,taxi owners went bankrupt be cause David Pollack new yellow cabs failed inspection before they ever had of NYC corruption .created by the mayor and TLC. one passenger in them! How does that happen? Charbel S. Pierre The More I Listen Vision Zero Dear Taxi Dave, Dear Taxi Dave, I love your show. Best transportation show on the in- Vision Zero doesn’t apply to UBER. The mayor ternet. I have a love hate relationship with your show. should drive a cab on a Saturday night and see the I miss manhattan so much but thank god i moved mess UBER causes on every street. from New York City. Columnists Marie I rather sit home and watch the Honey Mooners and listen to Ralph Cramdon talk about driving his Matthew Daus, Esq. Eye On The Road bus up and down Madison Avenue then actually try to do it these days. Larry Fisher Dear Taxi Dave, Thank you Taxi dave and your crew. With all the phones on the dashboards of app Joseph M. driven vehicles, the drivers frequently take their Nat Goldbetter eyes off the road while their vehicles are in mo- tion. I ask, is it good public policy to constantly Yellow Cabs Need Ira Goldstein, Esq. have driver’s eyes off the road? Larger Cabs. Suv’s Like Jules Abe Mittleman Suburbans, Yukons Etc Employment Dear Taxi Dave, Michael Spevack, Esq. Dear Taxi Dave, Since this is an open & fair market then TLC Former TLC employees should not be able to work should allow larger SUV cabs. This is one of the main Jerry Kremer for any company that the TLC regulates for life! reasons why we aren’t profi table. At the airports there Ram is a need of SUV for families & group of people in the city who want to travel together to a destination. Why can’t yellow cab owners, garages have SUVs Layout & Graphics My Dream as yellow cabs? Open & fair market? Dragonfl y Graphics LLC Dear Taxi Dave, Tommy I hate Uber. They constantly send me pings 30 minutes out from a casino in a different state. Yellow Then I end up with the two minute time out. My Taxi Insider acceptance rating is down to 32%. It’s making me Dear Taxi Dave, hate to turn on the app. To much advertising for Uber, and nothing for 11 Edge Water lane My dream is to get a ping and the pax is Travis. yellow cabs!!! In the dream, I get out on the highway and set the Stephen B Haverstraw, NY 10927 cruise for 70mph, slow down to 30mph, hit resume Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294) and bail out of the car. He’s in the backseat, scream- Uber in NYC ing, as the car speeds off. There. ..you wanted a Dear Taxi Dave, — self driving car, you got one. De Blasio destroyed the taxi industry and medal- Alan M. lion owner’s futures and retirements. He approve uber E-mail:[email protected] in New York City with zero laws. I wonder how much Funeral? of a contribution uber made to his campaign... Copyright © 2017 by TAXI INSIDER. All Dear Taxi Dave; Gloria from Little Neck NY rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor There is an old saying :” while the doctors trying any part therof may be reproduced, copied, to fi gure the cure, the patient dies” UBER or transmitted in any form, electronic or well tell the taxi industry died long time ago. and mechanical including photocopying, mi- the city still trying to fi gure out what to do. Pay To Play Payoffs crofi lming, recording or by any information Next we should start to find funeral Dear Taxi Dave, retrieving system without the express written home............ UBER’s money is making life in NYC cheap. Pre- permission of the publishers. The copyright Michael arranged rides are never the consideration of someone is extended to the design and text created partially inebriated. Business will be more successful for advertisements. This publication will in the upcoming years. Busy NYC needs regulated taxi not be responsible for errors in advertise- How To Win service. Young vulnerable adults will make mistakes ment beyond the cost of the space occupied Dear Taxi Dave, getting into the wrong car. When the superego is com- by the error. Bylined articles represent the The 79st boat basin had to spend millions on their promised by alcohol mistakes will be made. UBER sole opinion of the writer and are not neces- legal rights to keep their boats anchored as homes. should never be picking up rides in a few minutes. People sarily in accordance with the views of TAXI Taxis need to have fought the MTA tax the loss of the have forever tried to put their drunk friends into yellow INSIDER.
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