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"Cab Driver" is a song written by Carson Parks and performed by The Mills Brothers featuring Sy Oliver and His Orchestra. It reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart, #21 on the Cashbox chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. [ 1 ]
Since many cab drivers took out loans in order to afford medallions when values were high, many have subsequently been forced to declare bankruptcy. In September 2020, Marblegate Management LLC, the largest holder of NYC medallion loans, decided to write off $70 million in debt that indigent cab drivers still owed.
Travis Bickle is a 26-year-old living in New York City.When applying for a job as a taxi driver, he says he is a former U.S. Marine who served in the Vietnam War and was given an honorable discharge in May 1973, and has had "some" education.
The taxicabs of the United States make up a mature system; most U.S. cities have a licensing scheme which restricts the number of taxicabs allowed. As of 2012 the total number of taxi cab drivers in the United States is 233,900; the average annual salary of a taxi cab driver is $22,820 and the expected percent job increase over the next 10 years is 16%.
Taxi owners and drivers usually communicate with the dispatch office through either a 2-way radio or a computer terminal (called a mobile data terminal). Before the innovation of radio dispatch in the 1950s, taxi drivers would use a callbox—a special telephone at a taxi stand—to contact the dispatch office. [39] A Bluebird Taxi in Jakarta ...
In taxicab geometry, the lengths of the red, blue, green, and yellow paths all equal 12, the taxicab distance between the opposite corners, and all four paths are shortest paths.
Bailey is a licensed taxi driver in New York City. [14] ... Cash Cab - host of U.S. version (2005–2012, 2017–2020) Comedy Central Presents; Delivery Man (2013)
Bob Kane, a former auto racer, becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by Jim Barnes and his gangsters trying to gain control of all of the city's taxi companies. Having gone through all of his winnings from his auto racing career, Kane hitches a train to the East Coast and joins a cab company owned by a former auto racing ...