The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back

Desoto is changing its name to Flywheel and within two months the old blue & white Desotos will all look like the above pic. The first...

The SFMTA Board unanimously approved Electronic Taxi Access (ETA) which will lead to the development of a platform allowing smart phone ap...

Note the irony. Tariq Mehmood, who proclaims himself to be the "powerful and great leader of the drivers" siding with Yellow...

The threatened honkathon was a non-event yesterday. Tariq Mehmood claimed that he called off his taxi strike to give the SFMTA to make c...

A while back, Tariq Mehmood announced a 24 hours strike on August 2nd, but the winds of revolt may have died down. I don't keep up wit...

The taxicab industry has always been divided but not that long ago we all came together in a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation an...

Monday afternoon 7/25/11, by a count of 8  to 7, the Taxi Advisory Council voted to advise the SFMTA Board to no longer allow taxicab com...

There were three new faces on the Taxi Advisory Council on Monday who are likely to mean a change in direction. Until now, the TAC has pre...

If nothing else yesterday's protest was the biggest in my 27 years of cab driving, topping even the famous anti-Feinstein demonstration ...

Cabulous is an App that allows direct communication between a cab driver and a cab user via an iPhone or a Droid. Taxi Magic , which works ...

There is a lot to be said about the back-seat terminals (photo) currently being installed by National, Luxor and Yellow Cabs. Some of it mig...

The rough draft of the TAC report on the Pilot Program was put together by Council Chair Chris Sweis (photo) after going through more than ...

It is currently illegal for taxi companies to charge drivers for cashing credit card slips. Period.  Illegal? So what? The illegality of...

While we're waiting to find out when (or if) the Town Hall Meetings will resume, I thought that it'd a good time to glance at the pl...