Sentence examples for cab fleet from inspiring English sources

Adding to yellow cab fleet has long been a tricky political issue.

The Flushing dispatchers are paid by the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, an association of 11 yellow cab fleet operators.

Taxicab television advertising is a nascent field: the city's yellow cab fleet has been equipped with the back-seat screens for only about three years.

Their goal is to decorate 50percentt of New York's cab fleet, but they are lucky if one out of seven drivers says yes.

The proposal to expand the yellow cab fleet, the biggest increase since the city imposed a taxi cap in 1937, has already received approval in Albany and from the City Council.

In what would be a much more radical shift, a bill that would require the eventual conversion of the entire yellow cab fleet is being considered by Councilman John C. Liu, chairman of the City Council's Transportation Committee.

"It's a vicious cycle," said Ronald Sherman, president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents owners of big yellow cab fleets.

In a case that affects taxi companies across New York, a state judge has upheld a sales tax imposed on cab fleets that lease their cars to individual drivers.

New York City's average fare of $6.85 (assuming a 2.8-mile trip and about five minutes spent sitting in traffic) is the lowest among the nation's 14 cities with sizable cab fleets, according to a survey by Mr. Schaller.

The startup was launched in June 2011, and now has more than 50 cab fleets signed up to its platform which serves the Central and Greater London area.

Mercedes-Benz began selling its Vito cab in 2008 and now supplies almost a third of the capital's 22,000-cab fleet.