Cabbies Are Small Business People Too
It’s quite easy to overlook the fact that cab owners and drivers are small business people in the community where you live. Sadly they are probably the one group of small business people who have the worst reputation.
In the vast majority of cases that reputation is not deserved. Cab owners and drivers are often more community minded and willing to help others than many other small business people. Sadly though the actions of a few tarnish the reputation of the whole industry and it’s very difficult to get people to change their perceptions.
But that doesn’t stop cabbies from continuing to work within the community for the good of the community.
Here in just about every town in Australia cabbies are involved in transporting kids with special needs to and from school. Of course they get paid for it but a bond develops between the kids and the cabbies and those bad and nasty cab owners and drivers go way beyond the terms of their contract just to make life easier for the young passengers.
Here in Hervey Bay the local cab drivers are just like that, they have that special bond with the kids and they really do look after them. Each year at Christmas the owners and drivers put on a BBQ for the pupils and teachers at the special school here in town.
Of course they don’t have to but it is their way of supporting the kids and the teachers They don’t do it for the publicity because there isn’t any – they just do it because they want to.
What can your small business do for your community?
