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Speaking in a note to stockholders, the taxi companies' chairman said they would have to declare themselves bankrupt in order to stay afloat. "Pamela Martinez, Yellow Cab Co-op chairman, has written in a note received by the examiner that "we are in the middle of severe economic backlash. "We are in the middle of severe economic setbacks."

Several of these unfortunate events "are due to commercial issues beyond our reasonable controls, and others have been caused by ourselves," she commented. Uber and Lyft's ascent has made taxis throughout the land feel that they are pinching. A New York diamond taxis, the metallic plate on the bonnet of yellows taxis that allows a driver to collect hail from the road, has fallen in value by over 40 per cent over the last five years.

Loan cooperatives and creditors of the Medaillonindustrie disappeared from the game. Also, a corporation specializing in the awarding of medals has experienced its share price decline. However, despite the constant drumbeats of bad tales about the incumbent cab driving industries, some inside view the fast growing of the driver income as diluting and inevitably leading to a retreat back to yellows taxis.

Founded in 1977 following the insolvency of its proprietor, Co-op is the biggest taxi business in San Francisco with around 530 medals. The city of San Francisco is also the headquarters of Uber and Lyft.

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The Sanwa Koutsu Group, a Yokohama-based taxis company, followed the recent trends last weekend and launched Nuja de Taxis. At the same time, the owner strives to enhance its corporate identity and offer a truly one-of-a-kind service. Company said it has three toy riders on its team. Riders say they use Google translations to translate more than 100 different nationalities.

Visitors can book a shuttle ride on-line with a 1,000 surcharge on the normal ticket price. Another example is a coach driving ambulance where the rider is wearing a dark uniform and a pair of glasses to make him look like a hard watchman. We hope through these ministries "that more folks will recognize that there is a cab owner who is doing something interesting," said Hiroki Makabe, a spokesperson for Sanwa Koutsu.

A major problem for cab companies is the ageing of the driver. "Our riders are quite willing to launch new attractive projects," said Makabe, stating that the Sanwa Koutsu riders' mean retirement is 49 years. An easy web quest shows a wide range of coaching experience available to Nurja Wanabes, while the Japan Tourism Agency has selected Nurja as one of 13 topics to draw more overseasers.