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Norm Roy, general sales manager at the Checker Cab Company, says the recession is hitting drivers particularly hard in its corporate and tourist aspects: the sense of financial restraint infecting the nation has resulted in less air travel and hotel usage for work and for pleasure, lopping off a significant chunk of taxi business...
...Even if they themselves are not economically bothered, they wonder if they should pull their heads in," Roy says of the usual cab customers...
...city's taxi industry is centered around four main cab dispatchers, which own or provide radio dispatch service to the 248 medallions that work the city. But according to Cavellini, the large fleets of company-owned taxis which still patrol the streets of metropolises like Boston and New York have become a part of Cambridge history in the past decade, as drivers work to reap more financial gains through individual ownership...
...Yellow and Ambassador services owned by the Brattle Cab company, and the primarily Haitian Union Taxi company, for example, simply hook up drivers with passengers via radio for a monthly fee. Only Cambridge's Checkered Cab Company has charge of its own taxis, and even of those, about half belong to their drivers...
...entry-level perception is not unfounded, and many drivers use the job as a stepping stone, Cavellini explains, adding that in times of fiscal stability, driving a cab is much like other blue-collar occupations...