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...says that recently, many of these winter-only users--the "fair weather walkers," as he calls them--have been abandoning taxi services altogether, dealing yet another blow to local cabbies...
According to six-year driver and former president of the Cambridge Taxi Association Neil A. Lahaie, a cabbie working 60-hour weeks can hope for a monthly salary of sometimes as much as $3000 when taxis are in demand. When business is as slow as it has been recently, however, a cabbie can't expect to pull in more than $1500--slightly more than a minimum wage earner would make for a similar time commitment, he adds...
...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...
...common understanding in the public is that taxi driving is an entry-level profession, where recent entries to the country are found," Cavellini says, explaining the job's appeal to immigrants in particular...