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Arizona Mandates Background Checks for Cab Drivers

You hear of cab drivers getting robbed.  In fact, robbing cab drivers is the kind of stuff that legends, okay, stories are made from.   If you live in New York or a major urban environment, you are reminded of the stickups cabbies face as they careen about town, struggling to make a buck.   So for most of us we see cabbies more as the victims than the predators.

But now there is growing concern about passengers and the owners of the cabs they are climbing into.   While airport drivers have undergone background checks and sexual offenders registry background searches, plain city cab drivers were not subjected to these searches in Arizona.  Until now.   Arizona Senate Bill 1375 mandates background checks for all taxi drivers.   No, not taxi dancers…taxi drivers.   The guy, usually the guy, anyway, who wheels you all over town while you prod him to speed up and advise him on the best routes he should take.

So, according to KPHO.com passengers will now feel that much safer, knowing their cabbie has been dutifully vetted for criminal background checks.  Smart move on the part of Arizona.

 

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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