Loved in our country, this expression: “Well, where we do not.” In the global causes will not go into, consider just one obvious example – a taxi in the U.S..
Why U.S.? Why, for example, where the action is the most popular film made by Luc Besson? The fact that this movie served as a prototype for another tape in 1928 under the name “Driving Around New York City”, narrating the adventures of a taxi in the U.S. capital. Besides, the Americans to a greater extent than any other nation on earth, obsessed with cars.
Device Business
Orlando taxi cab company in a major American city usually has about eight cars, hedgehog couple of hundred cars stored here for parts. Accordingly, the area under the taxi cab company stand out are enormous, and there are workshops, equipped with the latest technology. By the way, repairing cars taxi drivers are usually American or Mexican, or Florida – Americans are working mechanics find undervalued, underpaid, and simply dirty. The fact that the mechanic has to work regardless of weather and day of week, for breakage happen quite often, and buying new cars in such quantities of American owners of taxi services is simply not profitable.
However, there are cases when due to breakage of passenger taxi to the airport can not deliver on time, in our country, fortunately, such incidents occur much less frequently.
The composition of taxis
If our country has traditionally been associated with the taxi canary “Volga”, the U.S. dominated among taxi model Crown Victoria. It’s quite durable and reliable machines that are unpretentious in operation and are suitable for repair. As a rule, having served three years in a New York taxi (namely, a three-year period is considered the maximum possible for a car in this capacity), they are resold in other states, where this period is longer – in Chicago, for example, they can last three more years . Here they are in a divine form, if possible, repaired and go on shift. In addition, the provincial taxi ranks swell cars purchased at auctions conducted by the police – and it is often broken or repainted cars that of “native” parts left except the icon on the hood.
Who’s driving?
Taxi drivers in the U.S. – the work not of prestige, even though our country is the middle class. Moreover, taxi drivers sometimes spend 24 hours behind the wheel, so here are mostly immigrants who need any money. By the way, and driving times, these people learn only in America, learning the basics of driving in the same scholar. Indigenous residents of the USA – and the white and African-Americans – are unlikely to sit behind the wheel of a taxi – this work is too exhausting.
A Orlando license to drive a taxi wound was issued only when there is a five-year experience of driving in the U.S.. Naturally, such a long time to wait for one of the immigrants is not going to – need to feed my family now, so this practice canceled – immigrants were easier to buy the license from a local official, than to die of hunger. Today, a license is obtained or purchased one for the entire family or company, and there are cases when, in response to taxi people come, do not even have a driver’s license.
Moneymaker
However, the business of taxi services in the U.S. is thriving, partly because all the machines in taxis compulsorily insured. Even if would-be driver gets into an accident, then the insurance money received from the owner of the taxi cab company can still buy a couple of new cars. Every six months, each Orlando taxi is inspected, but for the passage of this procedure, “stuffing” of the machine almost completely changed.
Officially the existence of the taxi (or Orlando limo) gets to pay for the document icon and large enough sum – from 100 to 300 thousand dollars, so these cars in each city can be counted on the fingers. In short, in respect of a taxi, our country far outstrips the U.S. – and in quality and comfort, and with respect to the passengers.
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Feb 22 2011