Driving a cab can't be easy. Everyone complains about you, you get weirdos in the back seat, it's dangerous, and sometimes people jump without paying. Add the high gas prices into the mix, and you wonder why anyone would be a cab driver. Now, cab drivers say that the gas prices are taking a huge chunk out of their take-home pay, and they want higher fares.
Today, the cab drivers are going to make their distress public with a rally at Roxbury Community College this morning. In the end, it's police commissioner Ed Davis who will make the decision.
The articles say that cab drivers haven't had a rise in fares since 2002. However, they did get a 50 percent surcharge in the wake of high fuel costs after Hurricane Katrina, and that hike was supposed to be temporary. It wasn't.
Not everyone will be on the side of the cab drivers. Some Boston cab drivers aren't that good at their jobs. These drivers like to meander a little to raise the fare, and others genuinely have no idea where they are going when you give them an address.
Your thoughts? Feel bad for the cab drivers, or should they take a test to prove they know where they are going before they get a raise?
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