Sentence examples for shift drivers from inspiring English sources

An app's ability to find a passenger in a lower-traffic neighborhood can add an extra fare or two to a given shift, drivers say.

The Taxi and Limousine Commission prohibits livery drivers from picking up passengers off the street, but Mr. Miranda says night shift drivers do it all the time, though less so after the recent killings.

In the last several weeks, the regulators have approved increases for several companies, including State Farm, and they permitted State Farm to shift drivers to more expensive pricing categories, sharply increasing costs for many drivers and increasing the insurers' revenues.

At the beginning of every shift drivers used to get a list of jobs and were sent off on their own.

Navigators based on real-time traffic conditions achieve suboptimal results since, in face of congestion, they greedily shift drivers to currently light-traffic roads and cause new traffic jams.

Radio host Adam Carolla, who collects and races vintage cars, said with a stick shift, drivers can't "just lean back and go into autopilot mode".

I have a clear memory of my friend, who had driven most of the way at this point (I was a skittish stick shift driver), opening her window and bending her arm on the sill, too pissed to care that the sun was purpling her tan.

Taxis also seem to disappear around 4 p.m., which is shift-change time -- day-shift drivers are on their way to Queens or Brooklyn to turn the cabs over to their night-shift counterparts.

Because these numbers are skewed by graveyard-shift drivers, who can cruise for long periods without a fare, the percentage of time cabs are occupied during business hours is probably much higher, Mr. Schaller said.

When starting their shifts, drivers will pickup their deliveries from a nearby location, then deliver within a designated radius that's based on the length of the delivery block they signed up for, notes Amazon.

Denver is the only city where the company has shifted drivers back to employee status, after the National Labor Relations Board ruled that drivers could unionize in 2011.