This might provide some insights into the taxi industry:
http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/577...atch-troubles/
Quote:
Images captured from the dashboard computers of taxis operating in Calgary on the busiest nights of the week appear to show routine frustration from dispatchers over an unwillingness among drivers with one of the city’s largest brokers to respond to calls for service.
[...] the images indicate some drivers are unwilling to respond to those trips and would rather search for “flags,” a term used to describe customers hailing cabbies from street corners.
“There are 425 cars working — 210 of them are empty — why are there 50 plus trips on the bid screen?” one dashboard computer read last weekend.
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Of course, experience will tell most Calgarians that hailing a cab isn't always the easiest thing either.