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DCS is writing illegal tickets for cell phone use while operating a taxicab.
Is the City violating its own and State laws? Can they be legally stopped?
Several drivers and witnesses have reported that DCS enforcement officers are positioned at O'Hare staging area to watch for drivers who are on their phones as they drive into the staging lot. An unknown number of citations have been issued.
Several drivers were ticketed for talking/driving while they were already parked.
One driver was parked in a staging row, with engine off. He is a first-time, new daddy and his wife called just to help ease his new dad jitters. That's going to cost him time off to go to a hearing and, at minimum, an administration fee.
Another driver was parked, with engine on, waiting to pull into a staging row, in the "tail line" that builds up (along the northern fence and Bessie Coleman Drive) when the staging lot is full. A friend called to get an airport update. That's going to cost him time off to go to a hearing and, at minimum, an administration fee.
These two incidents can both be confirmed and substantiated by eye-witnesses, who are willing to sign sworn affidavits and testify at the Administrative Hearing or, in court, if necessary.
Drivers report that the same DCS enforcement officer has written numerous talking/driving tickets and that Midway as well as several other popular and busy downtown taxi stands may be under surveillance as well.
Meanwhile, effort is underway to seek legal defense assistance and to obtain input and advice regarding matters of law and other actions drivers can undertake to stop this illegal ticket writing scam.
Please help spread the word -- and:
1) Don't talk while driving.
2) Keep your eyes open for DCS and CPD even in the airport staging areas.
3) If you witnessed these incident, or have information on these incidents, or want report an illegal ticket incident, contact any or all of the following:
Yi Tang
Also, post -- and read about taxi industry concerns -- at Chicago's Own taxicab forum. Surf to www.CabMarket.com. Click on the Discussion Forum.
Get Active Now!!!
Respectfully submitted by:
Wolfgang J. Weiss
Member, Board of Managing Directors
Chicago Professional Taxicab Drivers Association
Day Phone 773-244-8152 Nights(773) 457-5761 Fax (773) 244-8153
Email zybarwulf@comcast.net
A. Malik Mujahid: malik@ciogc.org
Diane Santucci: chicdiane7@aol.com
Donald S. Nathan: demerdard@aol.com
Farad Al-Taqi: farid@ciogc.org
George J. Lutfallah: george@chicagodispatcher.com
Jonathan Bullington: jonathan@chicagodispatcher.com
Melissa Callahan: melissacci@yahoo.com
Naim Mansour: naim23@gmail.com
Prateek Sampat: psampat@afsc.org
Raja L. Khan: rajalkhan@aol.com
Rima N. Kapitan: rima@kapitanlaw.net
Salem Qureshi: salemqureshi@yahoo.com
Thaddeus (Ted) C. Budzynski: budzynskithaddeus@yahoo.com
Yi Tang: tang11111@hotmail.com
And me, Wolf Weiss: zybarwulf@comcast.net
Iam just young cab driver started two years ago 'am glad to came acrosed the site,that you can express your mind concern this business,i don't know that there is taxicab drivers association,if this association is still alive i want to know how they get in touch with driver,because those called dcs. staff need to be checked, may be majority of drivers are foreingner,they can talk to them anyway they want it,including chicago police they will lied against you because they knew that the judge will belive them.
This is good job i loved it but let us do it together.
