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Alioto-Pier Wants Gate Cap
Of $110 for Large Companies

Two years ago, the Driver’s Worst Enemy Award went to then-Supervisor Fiona Ma, who tried to do away with the gate cap.
This year, the odds-on favorite is Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who has introduced legislation to raise the cap at “full-service” companies from an average of $91.50 to $110. If you’re working five shifts a week, that’s going to cost you almost $5,000 a year.
According to the legislation, a full-service company is one that provides workers’ compensation insurance for all cabs, has more than 1,500 paratransit trips a month and operates its own dispatch service.
In other words, this is a feast for large companies. And the small ones? They won’t last long.
The legislation also attempts to legalize retroactively gates charged between Sept. 2004 and Nov. 2006, when most large companies were in violation of the cap. The overcharges are the subject of a lawsuit brought by United Taxicab Workers against Yellow, Luxor and Speck Cab Company, which runs Arrow Cab.
Ma’s assault on drivers went nowhere. Let’s make sure Alioto-Pier’s does the same.