Two of the city’s largest taxi companies are now planning to sell off their city medallions (one with a classified in this newspaper) and move their businesses either to Delaware, or into the realm of digital “Transportation Network Services,” given the relative lack of restraint placed on web-based carriers in Maryland.
Further, talk of a taxi strike in Ocean City is gaining ground, with the possibility that the resort could join Mexico City, Paris, and other cities around in the world in seeing cabbies actively protest their loss of job security because of what they say is a bureaucratic bungle.
“I’m selling them, but so far nobody wants to buy,” said Michael Pawlowski, owner of Nite Club Taxi and Coastal Cab. The company holds 30 Ocean City taxi medallions, Pawlowski said.
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ReplyDeleteThe thieving bastards have gotten fat and happy for too long. let them eat cake I say.
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DeleteUber. Bring it.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you that most local drivers pay no taxes on their earnings!!! Most are receiving some sort of public assistance. Local Salisbury companies hire people that don't even make minimum wage. They have to fill up the cab at the end of the day and are lucky to bring home $40.00. They are considered contractors and not employees! Why are they not investigated? They do not report their earnings!
ReplyDeleteI have used Uber and you can accept the fare at the time or call a cab. Uber is the future.
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