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About vs. Taxi: The big differences are the costs

But the big discrepancy between taking the Uber and the taxi to Albuquerque International Sunport was not the reservation. until the ride showed up. Alternatively, the tech associated with teaching the drivers waited or my plastic was charged. Alternatively, the car's purity and cleanness.

Bringing a Uber from the Marriott Pyramid to Sunport and back on Tuesday was $37.02 (and there is no tilt function). The price was 92 - and with 15 per cent tips and taxes, the journey was 71.99 dollars. This is a slip for a round tour from the Marriott Pyramid to Albuquerque International Sunport.

They were both prebooked in seconds - via a mobile application, Albuquerque Checker Cab by telephone - and showed up in a few moments. About sent a photo of the chauffeur, Phil, and his automobile, a Dodge Charger. When Tony at Checker said the truck would be turned off and Brother Love, a cabbie, phoned (really) to say he was in the front of the driveway.

Distinctly, both riders, who are freelance contracted, are willing to let a journalist into their cars to talk about the status of the car pool and cab services in the region of Alguquerque at Interstate 25. It was also mentioned in the suit against the taxis, which tried to stop Uber from doing business here.

Since May 2014 he has been riding his own car for Uber and has been riding full timer since he dropped his IT employment three months ago. Usually he begins to drive at 7 am and ends his daily around 12 pm, with a few hour rest in the centre. Says that how much a Uber rider earns "depends on how much you want to work" and that he brings home between $300 and $500 a week. What he says is that he can't afford to pay for his work.

This is a complimentary proof of a tour from the Marriott Pyramid to the Albuquerque International Sunport. His brother Love has been taking a taxi in Albuquerque for 10 years, and before that he took one in Santa Fe for 20 years. They drive a car he has leased from Checker from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday and take home about $800 a week. Every day, they take it home with them.

Exactly that was what both men were worried about, that a lady would be feeling secure when she was taken away by a foreigner, and both were chatting comfortably (weather, balloon fiesta, pie picks, professional soccer) and had great tales about earlier rates. Once Brother Love brought a lady from Kaseman Hospital to her target across the road.

Brother Love observes the flight, rail and coach timetables and once took someone to Palomas, on the Mexico frontier not far from Deming. Rather a bit of spending much leisure traveling between Sunport and hotel, with downtown, commuting and interspersed doctor's surgeries.

But what most people are worried about is the cost, and over surpasses the cabs by a mile. What is more, the taxi is a lot more expensive. Phillip says that riding for About "for the most part, it will pay my bills", but it has become more difficult to earn a livelihood, resulting in a rate cut in January, the corporation that takes $2 plus 20 per cent of each fares, no way for motorists to claim a "favorite driver", no typing feature and a concerted drive by About to register more motorists.

Über can have its own rates because it is not regarded as a cab business, although Kellogg points out that it "drives from point A to point to point to get money". And for the ordinary driver, for whom everything else is the same, pricing is likely to be the decisive consideration when it comes to the choice of a trip.

Both my New Mexican-born chauffeurs seemed to be honest, hard-working men who were willing to leave someone in these most Amerindian of rooms - their vehicles - to make a livelihood. However, I got out of every auto feel they were at significant odds on this front - Phil for the wedding at a low cost and Brother Love a high.