First understand that San Francisco is the number 1 tourist destination in the U.S. it is also a very busy convention city.

This means the demand for taxi's very greatly.

One night you feel you can't get a cab fast enough, another night the cab drivers are driving around empty looking for a fare.

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Here are some suggestions.

1) Find your favorite cab company, talk to your friends in your area. Different companies tend to be stronger in different areas.

2) Don't make a bad address list, once you order a taxi either wait for it or call and cancel. Dispatchers will try to protect their drivers by recognizing which people won't be there when the cab shows up.

3) Never call several companies and have a race to see which one shows up first. If several cabs show up at the same time they will all leave you standing there.

4) If you want to hail a cab walk a few blocks to a street where you normally see cabs.

5) Cabs generally migrate towards downtown, try to position yourself on the incoming street rather than the outgoing street, like Oak instead of Fell; you'll notice empty cabs instead of full cabs.

6) Hail every taxi, too many people wait until the cab is right up to them trying to see if the cab is empty.

7) check the convention schedule and anticipate busy nights, check the link on this website "info for taxi drivers".

8) Remember the cab drivers pay for their gas, consider the price of gas when you decide how much to tip.


Good luck to all of you.

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