The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back

Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Application Hearing Process - A New Set of Rules?

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The July 24, 2009 hearings for medallion applicants turned out to be a radical event. In the old days (before the MTA took over), a medallio...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Independent Contract - In Sum

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Over the last 30 years, the law has pretty much caught up with the Independent Contract. A series of court cases have given drivers Workers ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Independent Contract - 5

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I think of "tremendous minds" as belonging to people like Verdi or Goethe or Einstein who create beauty or expand our knowledge o...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Independent Contract - 4

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I should emphasize again that, tipping etc aside, drivers were treated better at most other companies than at Yellow. Despite being much sma...

The Independent Contract - 3

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While conditions at Yellow cab were the worst, there was no taxi company you could work for without receiving some form of abuse . After a c...
Monday, July 20, 2009

The Independent Contract - 2

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The drivers at Yellow expressed their fear and their angst with a series of saying: "You've got a job at Yellow Cab as long Steele ...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

In the Trenches with the Independent Contract - 1

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I was just showing up for my first day of cab driving in 1983. A middle-aged Eskimo woman stood outside the Yellow Cab lot at 8th and Towns...
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Crocker Amazon is the nom de blog of Ed Healy. I started this blog in 2009 when Mayor Gavin Newsom tried to steal taxi driver medallion and use them to pay off the San Francisco's 600 million debt. I have used this blog to help inform the public and the people who make decisions about the various issues that arose from this including the Taxi Reform, protests and other changes that followed. I've been driving a cab for 25 years in San Francisco. You can contact me at: amazincrocker@gmail.com I've started a new blog devoted purely to cab Stories at: http://phantomcabstories.blogspot.com/ Comments are welcome but please identify yourself.
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