“fraud might rank as biggest in taxi industry’s history”
Categories: Cab Industry
Hey folks, are you ready for yet ANOTHER reason that CabCorner.com is on the verge of revolutionizing your taxi cab experience?
I’m sure you saw this recent report in The New York Times:
“New York City taxi drivers routinely overcharged riders over two years by surreptitiously fixing their meters to charge rates that would normally apply only to trips outside the five boroughs . . . . The investigators determined that 36,000 drivers improperly activated the higher rate at least once, and that about 3,000 drivers did it more than 100 times.”
That’s right… “35,558 out of the city’s roughly 48,000 drivers had applied the higher rate.”
We congratulate the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and especially its courageous leader Matthew Daus, for pursuing this story…
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