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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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