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Just the day before, Arthur says, "a girl cab driver was robbed by a sawed-off shot gun. Right in Boston in the middle of the afternoon. Can you believe that?" So Arthur's wary of who he accepts into his cab--a blue '78 Fury. Arthur, who has been leasing the street-beat Fury from his uncle for about eight months, has been held up once in his three years of full-time night driving. Last spring, he stopped at Fresh Pond to make a phone call. He was standing beside his cab when three men pulled knives...
...that the passenger was interested in something besides a lift, he'd tap the front seat and the dog would immediately jump up. "Or if the passenger was an animal lover, I'd let him pet the dog. He's a great animal. He was good company in the cab...
Five days a week, Arthur leaves his home in Boston at about 4 p.m. He heads his Z28 down Storrow Drive into Cambridge and heads for the Ramada Inn on Soldiers Field Road where the day-man leaves the cab Arthur will drive all night. Changing cars, Arthur reports into the Ambassador cab dispatcher and starts to cruise. He'll check out the Square first and, if there isn't a long line of cabs idling there already, he'll wait for his first fare. But like a nocturnal scavenger, Arthur doesn't like to wait, and when he finds...
...women and one of the men, drinks still in hand, eye Arthur's dented generic cab suspiciously, then climb in the back seat. "Good night, Charles," one of the women says to the fourth member of the party, who waves from the curb. "We had a marvelous time." Then, turning to Arthur, "Ritz Carlton...
...radio--like gas and the weekly payment on the cab's Cambridge medallion--costs. That's why Arthur doesn't own, but leases one of his uncle's two cabs. Arthur pays his uncle $140 a week, as opposed to the $200 a week it would cost him to finance his own cab. All cabs operating out of the city must have a Cambridge medallion, which works something like a liquor license and costs $20,000. Arthur's uncle uses the Ambassador Company because it offers independent drivers an eight-year, high-interest loan and provides radio service which costs...