I rode in a cab yesterday to a meeting, and the driver was apologetic the moment I got on. He didn’t know where my destination was, and asked if I had a preferred route I knew of, and if I could guide him. He said it was only the second day he’d been driving, and that it was his friend’s taxi.
I asked why his friend would let him drive the cab when he was so blur with directions, and by further admission, didn’t know how to use a GPS. He replied that he was, with two other friends with taxi driver licenses, helping out the renter of the taxi to make the daily rental of $130 while he recuperated from treatment for a “mild stroke”.
Apparently, their efforts in asking the taxi company for a rent-free period had been in vain, and the company had actually said that if the rent was in arrears for more than three days, the taxi would be leased to someone else, and the renter would have to start over with a new application if he so wished, but only after paying his dues.
If this is true, then, I commend the taxi company for trying to keep more cabs on the road. We, the public, really don’t care if your drivers are sick or not.
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