[nfbwatlk] Vancouver Cab Closes

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
I heard about the cab problem on KOMO radio.  I wondered if it effected you 
guys.
Thanks
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Vancouver Cab Closes


> 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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