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Published: 2009-11-05 22:03:00
Updated: 2009-11-05 23:13:01

Raleigh cab drivers face changes


Raleigh cab drivers face changes
Raleigh cab drivers face changes
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Cab drivers in Raleigh are required to start operating under new regulations on Sunday.

The regulations cover everything from maintaining a vehicle to a cab drivers' appearance. Vehicles must be less than 10 years old, have less than 250,000 miles and a working air conditioner.

Cabs are also required to install security cameras.

Drivers must also follow a dress code that includes no shorts, mini skirts or flip flops.

Nabile Hanna, who for Sammy's taxi service, said he is welcoming the new regulations.

“I like it,” Hanna said Thursday.

Downtown Raleigh isn’t the only area cracking down on taxi drivers. Raleigh-Durham International Airport maintains its own taxi service and already has specific rules in place.

Officers recently busted cab driver Wayne Bordeau for operating at RDU with fake license tags and no insurance.

“We want to ensure that from our taxi drivers to our limo services, that we ensure that they meet our standards and that they are safe and courteous for our passengers,” RDU spokeswoman Mindy Hamlin said.

Loren Gold, executive vice president of the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the city’s new taxi cab ordinance is about maintaining consistency in how cab companies operate and how they represent the city.

“It does keep these small time operators potentially on the sidelines if they don’t comply with the ordinance,” Gold said.


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How about this make sure they have a valid driver’s (chauffeurs) license, the highest rated liability insurance, and the proper tags and inspection, they are bonded, all drivers are registered in the cities database, that they all should be legal in the US, they all should have calibrated and inspected meters by the city, their chauffeurs license should be posted as well as their business license in the cab. I hope everyone knows at the last minute the city council remove the provision requiring all cab drivers to be US citizens.

So sorry to have exceeded your attention span offconstantly.

Most cabs drivers I have seen are smoking in the cabs, eventho it says "NO SMOKING" displayed on the windows, the cabs smell and they are smoking and making noises like they are on their last mile.

How many of those cab drivers can actually pass a drug test?

Ah I enjoy watching people embrace more and more control over their lives. Of course, they foolishly embrace it thinking, ah the other guy is being controlled, and I like that for it "PROTECTS" me. Congratulations on welcoming the "STATE" right on in.

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