The Taxi Driver
Considering the technological developments, any business that falls behind is struggling this age of innovations. The taxi industry in Washington D.C. is among those that is going through tough times.
I had a candid conversation with Eartha Clark who has been a taxi driver in the District for over four decades about her life, and her approach to the new developments in her business.
Clark:
“I am just an ordinary person. I like to have beach ready, fairly, have the opportunity to progress in life, to follow laws and obey them.”
“To be out here in this world… This is a business. You have to like people, and have good work ethics. If you don’t have that, you wont be out here. You wont be here.”
“It’s got discouraging a lot of times. But, that’s part of business. It has never been this bad. Because you’ve got all these people, like we were talking about Uber, Lyft, and all the shared riding. Nad, it has created problems for us, because they don’t have the same rules. So, we are paing the price for them.”
“I just feel that, Uber ha a right to, or Uber driver… But I want hem have the same playing field that I have. They don’t have any rules. They have like 17 rules. We have 87. And, the playing field is not eve. But, they are doing the same work I do. It makes a big difference.”
“This Uber thing has cost a lot of people; limousine drivers, every body. It has cost us. The life is life. There are things you can control, and there are a lot of thing you can’t control in life. So, you just have to learn how to deal with it. There is something going on all the time, everyday. But, you have to deal with life.”
“If you can’t, a lot of what you have to do is, I would say, suck it up.”
Supers:
Eartha Clark, Taxi Driver
Washington, D.C.
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