These days you truly have no idea who’s driving your train, bus or car or taxi.
Professional driving has gone the way of the Dodo.
The car service company had better lawyer up pronto.
“He started working as a black-car driver for Skyline Credit Ride only in October 2014. Skyline, based in Long Island City, Queens, has had a contract with CBS for more than 30 years.”
It sounds like the cost-cutters at CBS went with the low bidder.
“His car was owned by Travez Transportation, and when he wasn’t working, he would use it to ferry pals from the homeless shelter where he lived on Wards Island to Manhattan, friends said.”
At the respectable places, the drivers are required to supply the car themselves. This necessarily implies a certain level of financial responsibility.
This is Ted Kennedys immigration act. In the past all the way up to the 1980s almost all the taxi drivers, limo drivers were native New Yorkers, a lot of Jewish guys from Brooklyn. Then Kennedys immigration act started to take hold and the taxi/limo owners found they could screw over these off the boat Muslims because they were naive, so they changed the pay system where instead of the owners and drivers splitting the days take 50/50, the owners now got a set fee no matter what. So if the lease fee was $140 and it was a slow day and you only grossed $150, the owner got his $140 and the driver $10 for 12 hours work. So all those native New Yorkers said “F this, I’m not working for nothing” which is why you got all these 3rd worlders now driving. So chalk up another death to Ted Kennedy.