Long Hauling: Treble Damages RICO claim. Desert Cabs.

Quote: FleaStiff

Jitneys are common. Often a motel will have an airport pickup van but not want to pay the fees and do the paperwork, so you call the motel and they tell you to look for a white van with no markings.

Is the term common or local. IOW, if I said "jitney" in Nevada would they know what I meant or would they look at me like someone in a Vegas Safeway asking where the Helman's Mayo was?

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Many cab drivers think a flat rate is the solution rather than a mileage rate. So anywhere on the Strip would be a flat fee. Some people used to call cab drivers directly in Vegas rather than cab companies if they were staying at some cheap off-strip motel that lacked a cab stand.

Pittsburgh uses that for airport-to-downtown. Very good for when traffic is heavy. Would work in LV, though maybe a zone fee, say if you went north or south of TI, which sems to be the de facto dividing line anyways.

The term Jitney is known throughout the travel world, often is the only reliable transportation in the Caribbean or the Philippines.

The problem is often that on a Friday night or Saturday night, taxicab drivers want to drive four young men to a strip club and receive bonus money rather than drive to some off strip motel to provide routine taxicab service even if that call might be generous tippers. Its the same way with waiting at a cab stand until one gets to the head of the line and then finding out that next fare is a short trip. A zone fare would not solve the problem of premium destinations but it would solve the problem of undesirable short trips.

Local 711 (an appropriate number for Vegas) of the United Steel Workers now represents 280 taxicab drivers of Western Cab Company since the employer recognized the Union to avoid a formal election.