Take a guided tour of the best sights and attractions in Cornwall with the services of a local, knowledgeable driver. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘taxi.’ Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. In a previous interview with Insider, Frey likened ChatGPT to Uber disrupting the taxi market, increasing the demand for drivers and lowering wages by about 10%.
Most experienced taxi drivers who have been working in the same city or region for a while would be expected to know the most important streets and places where their customers request to go. However, to aid Airdrie taxi services of manual navigation and the taxi driver’s memory (and the customer’s as well at times) a cab driver is usually equipped with a detailed roadmap of the area in which they work. There is also an increasing use of GPS driven navigational systems in wealthier countries. In the United States, a nut is industry slang for the amount of money a driver has to pay upfront to lease a taxi for a specific period of time. Once that amount is collected in fare, the driver then begins to make a profit. A driver “on the nut” is trying to earn back the initial cost.
Proponents of deregulation also claim that if officials want to regulate prices they should standardize the measures rather than command prices. For example, they may require that any distance tariffs are set for the first 1/5 miles and then for every subsequent 1/3 miles, to make it easier to compare the prices of different taxis. Deregulation advocates claim that regulators only have a very limited information on the market.
Conaway left the show at the beginning of Season 4, returning for a guest appearance in which his character leaves the taxi company for good. Writer Sam Simon explained later that when Conaway was absent for an episode, his dialogue was successfully reassigned to other cast members, which made the producers realize that he was expendable. In South Africa, taxi deregulation has resulted in the emergence of taxi cartels which carry out acts of gun violence against rival cartels in attempts to monopolize desirable routes.
Currently, we accept Visa, American Express and Mastercard, as well as most major debit cards. John Burns (1978–1979) – The naive young man works as a cabbie to pay for college, where he is working towards a degree in forestry. According to Carver, “the characters of John Burns and Tony Banta were too similar… some of the lines were almost interchangeable”, so he was dropped after the first season without explanation. The premiere episode, “Like Father, Like Daughter”, established that John started working for the cab company after he was a passenger in Alex’s cab. John did not have change, so he had to ride with Alex to the garage to pay him. Once there, he started hanging around and eventually applied for a job.