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    New York Cabbie September Strike Threat Still Looms Over Tip Monitoring GPS System

    A couple of weeks ago one of us snagged a cab with a very chatty cabbie on the west side of Manhattan to run uptown and meet some friends for dinner. The driver had a bone to pick with the Big Apple over a new GPS system set to be installed inside city cabs later this year and somehow he thought I could help him make this not happen — or maybe he was just venting, we're not sure. Whatever the reason, Ackmaz apparently wasn't the only cabbie upset by the plan to install satellite positioning systems with a fun little credit card swipe system, route tracking and passenger route view screen in every yellow FoMoCo vehicle in the city. It now appears he and the rest of the 8,400 member (out of a 26,000 driver total) New York Taxi Workers Alliance are threatening a strike come September if the city moves forward. So, umm, why are the yellow-car Ford drivers so upset about a GPS system? More »

    9:20 AM on Mon Jul 30 2007
    By Ray Wert
    8,557 views, 55 comments

    Latest by seldom: i think most drivers are getting screwed by the owners with the lease agreement.by going to the lease agreement, the more »

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