Oliver Moore asks whether or not Canada’s taxi drivers have a place in transportations future?
I say they certainly do once the taxi brokers get out of their box and collaboratively link themselves and their drivers together through an App based Central Dispatch Network (CDN) which links all the drivers and their brokers into a single CDN such as ProCabby as described here in one of their ads shown below.
ProCabby is an Ottawa based CDN that’s presently recruiting drivers and their brokers throughout North America these past two years. Governments are becoming increasingly interested in such a service, particularly where persons with disabilities are concerned.
Riders sole concern is typically timely service, professionalism and vehicle condition. Uber’s popularity flows primarily from their ability to recruit driver owners without a transferrable medallion and through their sheer numbers can respond much faster than taxis encumbered with the fixed licensing.
Their ability to recruit driver owners, including cab drivers is the direct result of charging their drivers a fixed percentage commission per trip rather than fixed–and often usuriously high stand rents charged by the brokers. ProCabby charges 7.1% of fares dispatched by—and only by ProCabby. All other trips such as flags and trips prearranged without ProCabby’s involvement are not charged a commission.
A CDN such as ProCabby can save a taxi company a ton of money in dispatching costs as the CDN could connect each and every customer with a cab without anyone in the office at all. Remote call centers can handle all phone business and customer concerns.
Let the cab companies and fleet operators focus on their cars and driver training and let the ProCabby do the dispatching.