Jackson Jambalaya

Now if only Jackson could introduce some competition to water meter reading and water service billing.

Local taxi service here in Jackson being Crap-tas-tic is nothing new. we used to take a taxi home from Paddy's Day and it was always a goat rodeo. the cars are worn down, dirty and the cab driver is usually less than friendly (guess hauling drunks around all day would make anyone terse and short tempered.) the company i work for has employees in the Northeast and they all use Uber religiously when they're here at our main office. it only took one time to use local cab service to look elsewhere for transportation. I'm very excited that Uber will be here! sorry guys your business model is antiquated. I am however enjoying all the butt hurt from the local cabbies.

Meanwhile, cabbies in Central London are blocking main roads to protest Uber. Not exactly the way I would go about garnering sympathy. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/10/black-cab-drivers-uber-protest-london-traffic-standstill

I am Anthony Scarbrough, the person mentioned in the blog, and I just want to say that the taxi drivers behavior during the hearing on Monday did nothing but help prove my point about customer service in the taxi industry. There were other drivers who trashed city council members and insulted them. It was indicative of everything I stated. I am glad that the city council passed an ordinance that is acceptable to Über. You know you're doing something right when you get support from Kingfish and Jackson Jumbalaya :)

We get it, KF. You are preaching to the choir here. There is no debate. The only people who actually like the cab companies in Jackson are the owners.

What the cab driver could have said:

Free ride with me to show my service and the quality of my cab-and my efficiency of getting you from point a to b.
Sorry that other cab drivers in Jackson are so lame-call me next time.
OR even-mistakes have happened and I'm trying to change.

.....As if there's an argument here regarding the stinky, piss-poor service of taxi-cabs in the Metro.

So, what the hell is the continuing discussion about?

Do you want to shut the discussion down @7:19?

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought "Nah forget it, yo homes to Bel-Air!"

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie yo homes smell ya later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air

Tape needs resetting. Only a few sentences shown from the bouncer like cabbie

Any word from the cabbies or the cab company owners since the ruling?

Actually, the cabbie said enough. Customer Service is a cornerstone of great companies. In his brief 30 seconds, he demonstrated none.

Actually that cabbie's full tirade was posted on Feb 9 on "Cab driver threatens" thread

I cut off the rest of Sandifer's comments because I posted the video a few days ago and the rest of his remarks had nothing to do with customers.

This will be anecdotal evidence, but in 11 years working in metro Jackson, I used a cab service once. I had to go to the ER on a Sunday afternoon for vertigo via ambulance. Once I was treated and given prescriptions, I couldn't find anyone to come get me to take me to the pharmacy and then home. I called a cab. The driver could see that I was not doing very well. He put me in the front seat to keep an eye on me and drove to the pharmacy and handed the scripts through the drive through, then drove around for 30 minutes at my request and went back and got my meds. Then he took me home and helped me to my door. Needless to say, I have him a big tip, in cash, and remain thankful to this day.

4:06 - You have a problem much bigger than vertigo.

I am pro Uber; but this pose should have just been titled taxi customer. Or maybe: Taxi Customer vs. Public Speaking. The short clip of the taxi driver is not substantive.

12:17 AM

Public speaking is difficult. I think the soeaker did a fine job making relevant points.

The one issue I always hated with cabs was their attitude toward credit cards. Cabbies will conplain and moan and lie that "the machine dont work." I started to think that the company which made their credit card machines also made the chocolate shake maker at Burger King on State Street....that machine went down at 11:30 PM every night for about a decade!

And cabbies want cash for a reason...fhey do not report the income. So they screw the city, state, and federal governments.

Welcome Uber...good by cabs....until uber hits a 4.2 "surge" charge and then maybe ill just call a tow truck driver to tow my car and me to my house....again.

@7:20 Thank you for the compliments on speaking to city council. You know, it didn't occur to me your point about not reporting the cash income, but you are exactly correct! There is no telling how much money the City of Jackson has lost because of that.

Back in the days of illegal whiskey in this state, various sheriffs built nice brick homes when hush money found its way to their pockets.

Now we have the same situation with cab companies and government representatives at the city level.

Knuckle-dragger ought to wake up. Get you a decent personal ride and be an Uber driver making $19-$35 and hour. Hell, Uber will even let you rent from them and you would come out better. Shut down the taxi system in Jackson and take all these beat up taxi's to JFD to practice extrication.
If we allow Uber to expand in this area it will do nothing but improve. I was in Nashville and my Uber app had 4 levels of service (basically how nice or big do you want your ride). In Jackson right now there is only one option. I'll be an Uber driver once they come out with UberRednek for anyone that wants to ride in a lifted Z71 with mud grips!