I have pretty much travelled the whole europe extensively and have find out that nyc taxi is the cheapest one. It bothers me alot and more importantly when our mayor is a billionaire and cant do anything to help the poor stressed out drivers of nyc. What a shame on part of tlc and on part of mayor. In uk this is in reference to most of the small town taxis and you can hail them and they all have meters and they all accept credit cards also. Now the thing that bothers me on the rate is this that in uk. if there are four passengers its the normal rate and when they are four plus then it will be time and a half and after 10 pm its time and a half anyways no matter how many passengers are there, then on sundays its time and a half all the time and if its a holiday its double for that 24 hours like christmas you know.

In norway taxi meter starts at 25 pound sterling which is close to 40 bucks and here we start with 2.50 and then it takes forever when the meter drops 40 cents. We are the most less paid taxi drivers in the world. I dont know whats going on with the mayor and tlc and why they are not doing anything about this. Drivers dont have the courage to do anything, strike for a day cost them the lease and lease is over hundred dollars they are ready to kill each other for a five dollar fare. so i dont know how and when something will work out for me and for the rest of the industry here i mean the drivers cause the medallion owners individual and corporate doesnt come into the industry, industry is constituted by drivers only and they are worse than animals.

hellow my friend.this is how they set up the prices and the lease:

the taxi you driving has to be available in the streets for 12 hour for each shift .

driver has to be experienced and in love with driving that means has to be in the driver seat a minimum of 10 years ..

they paid a driver a minimum wages of 10 dlrs an hour as average . .

each taxi makes 30 trips a shift .that makes 300 dlrs total..

10 dlrs per trip as an average.

the medallion takes 130 dllrs each day.

the driver has to make total minimum 250 dlrs and 50 dlrs gas wich is 300 dlrs totlal..

so if 130 dlrs a day goes to the medalion each day and within one year of 356 days,the medallion will receive 47000 dlrs fixed rate but driver income not fixed.so within 10 years work, the medallion should get 470000 dlrs its half-million.

who drives the medallion ?maye be 4 drivers for each shift for the whole years .because it s hard work that you can not driver full time maye 7 month hardly.

so driver will take 20000 dlrs home.

why driver income doesnt go up?because of the medalion system .each time they increase the fare rate ,automaticly the medalion price goes up.

so the driver has to cover the lease first.the only solution for these mess is to fix the driver income up 15 dlrs an hour.

1)the average trip should be increased to 12 dlrs per trip.

2)the medallion price shoud deduct the gas price 35 dlrs per day and lease price should be 95 dlrs a day.

3)the driver will take home 360-95lease -50gas=215 dlrs a day .this is the only way drivers will survive in nyc.

an other big though solution is this one:

drivers need to build a company of 40.000 drivers and each drive pays only 30.000 dlrs per year for the next 4 years .then they will buy

every medallion in new york city and control the busniness.

it s big account that makes 40.000*30.000*4=4800.000000 dlrs .if medallion cost 500.000dlrs then this coorporation will have 4800*2=9600 mdellions.

how it gonna work .9600 medalion makes 19200 shift .is like each driver has saved 500.000-120000=380.000 dlrs saving.

and say bey bey brokers.

Istanbul...

plate : 430.000 USD

and raising real fast due to econony and huge investments here..

and if u are owner and working at your taxi. (from 07.00 to 21.00) u can make NETTO between 3500-4000 USD per month (expect taxes , car expenses et.c.)

If you want to ask any questions u are all welcome..

regards from Istanbul