Cab business considers closing their doors amid high gas prices, low staffing – WICS (Springfield)

Owner Mike Antonacci says the company has been in business for 89 years, passed down through three generations. But the city has control of how much the cab company can charge, and Antonacci says the rates are so low that drivers don't feel its worth the gas money.
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your dime your dance floor
4 years ago

Maybe it’s time for local government to get out of regulating the “cab business” and let the market place figure all this stuff out.

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Pat S.
4 years ago

I still don’t understand how Uber and Lyft were able to start up when the cabbies are so tightly regulated and required to buy medallions.

Years back ‘jitney cabs’ were outlawed, yet Uber and Lyft are allowed?

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Indy
4 years ago

Move the business to Indiana.
Simple as that.

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