And what does that leave you with? A trade full of drivers having to work 100 hours a week to pay the rentals.
Cos the folks who buy them will never drive them. T&G and NTA heaven.
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| Author: | captain cab [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:01 pm ] |
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Chicago auctions 50 taxi medallions for $3.9 million CHICAGO The city of Chicago has auctioned 50 taxi medallions for three-point-nine (M) million dollars. The average price paid for the medallions was a record 78-thousand-509 dollars. The highest bid was 81-thousand-and-two dollars, while the lowest was 60-thousand dollars. The highest price paid at auction just two years ago was 47-thousand-500 dollars. Chicago's Department of Consumer Services received 204 bids total for the month-long, sealed-bid auction. There are about 63-hundred active medallions in Chicago. |
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| Author: | jimbo [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:11 pm ] |
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Now, as I have said several times on here, THAT'S the way to do it! |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:16 pm ] |
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jimbo wrote: Now, as I have said several times on here, THAT'S the way to do it!
I tend to agree, sell a plate and keep an old folks home running....given the choice. CC |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:09 pm ] |
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And what does that leave you with? A trade full of drivers having to work 100 hours a week to pay the rentals. Cos the folks who buy them will never drive them. T&G and NTA heaven.
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| Author: | jimbo [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:11 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: And what does that leave you with? A trade full of drivers having to work 100 hours a week to pay the rentals.
Cos the folks who buy them will never drive them. T&G and NTA heaven. Teamster Heaven, in Chicago? |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:14 pm ] |
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jimbo wrote: Teamster Heaven, in Chicago?
Would fit in well with the two I mentioned. 
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| Author: | GMB Branch secretary [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:28 pm ] |
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Who sold them Al Capone?????????????????????????? |
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| Author: | Tom Thumb [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:10 pm ] |
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That is a lot of money when you put half of it, in cash, in a brown paper bag. |
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