How hard is it to become a taxi driver?

Also known as cab drivers, taxi drivers transport clients to their destinations via automobile. Taxi drivers are usually paid according to the distance and time taken to complete each trip.

Fifteen years after taxi drivers began lobbying for protections against the alarming assaults and murders plaguing cabbies across the country, the federal government weighed in on the issue.In the spring of 2000, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) warned of the dangers of driving a cab -- taxi drivers today are in the top ten occupations with the highest homicide rates -- and endorsed guidelines for driver safety.