[nfbwatlk] Vancouver Cab Closes

[Mike Freeman]

The owner claims it was excessive competition from rival cab companies, 
most notably Broadway Cab and Radio Cab from Portland. While there may, 
indeed, be some truth to this assertion -- Vancouver is one of those 
cities that's too small to support many cab companies and cabs but too 
large (and growing) to have just one company if it only fields a few 
cabs (supposedly Vancouver cab fielded something over twenty cabs but I 
never saw much evidence of it) -- I think things are a bit more complex 
and I suspect that part of the problem lay in diminished customer 
service. Certainly Northwest Cab (which went out of business a month or 
two ago) had that problem -- going from exemplary service to slipshod 
service except for its dedicated customers. But even with Northwest Cab, 
I've heard rumors that there were more problems than simple competition 
or lack of service although I suspect these rumors were as much due to 
grousing cab drivers as anything else. (I observe that no two cab 
drivers ever seem to like each other.)

My mother called Radio Cab a while back and it apparently arrived within 
ten minutes. I see no way of guaranteeing this, though, at least quickly 
and I must admit to being uneasy at there being no homegrown cab company 
in the area now (dunno if County Cab still runs and even if it does, it 
tends to take mostly medical cleints so there aren't enough cabs to 
handle off-the-street fares.)

Ah well.

Mike Freeman
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kaye Kipp
  To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Vancouver Cab Closes


  Holy *cow.*  I don't know why that should surprise me but it does.  I 
wonder
  what happened.  I guess if I look at the link I might find out.

  Kaye
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
  To: "NFB of Washington Talk" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:43 PM
  Subject: [nfbwatlk] Vancouver Cab Closes


  > The Vancouver Cab Company (Vancouver, Washington) has closed. There 
are
  > no longer any cab companies based in Vancouver. For details, see
  >
  > http://www.columbian.com/printArticle.cfm?story=312619
  >
  > Mike Freeman
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