Let me tell you a little story about Orlando International Airport. For years we have had drivers operating their vehicles in unappropriate manners. Drivers would go into the terminal, find passengers needing rides and solicit them. Drivers would stand right on the baggage floor and if you asked for help they would solicit you. Skycaps would solicit to help you find a ride. They would than give you to a driver who paid the skycaps $10.00 to $15.00 for the referral. Guess who really paid for that referral, Yes, you did. Drivers would stand by exits and solicit passengers. They would than flat rate them and overcharge passengers for the rides. Passengers, not knowingly, would meet these drivers and succumb to the driver's prices, thinking that it was standard. It got so bad that airport officials not wearing badges coming to work or getting off the planes were solicited. You, the passenger may have had an encounter with one of these drivers in the past. That encounter may have soured you for the future.
Drivers who did not want to pay the fee for picking up passengers would carry their passengers to the bullpen or meet them at the Hyatt Hotel outside the terminal. There are cases where cabs not permitted in the airport have gone to the Hyatt Hotel and picked up passengers.
This has changed now. The airport has cleaned its act up. There are several ways to be picked up at the airport and be covered, by insurance, in case of any problems. Demand taxis, you land with no reservation for transportation, you go and pick up a taxi at the taxi stand. DME, Mears and Bee line shuttle, prepaid limousines, towncars, SUV's, vans and the rental cars are the major providers of transportation to passengers. I may have missed a few, but you get the idea. The airport has put into effect a force that enforces its regulations. The drivers soliciting are no more, the regional shuttles that solicit passengers as the walk down the commercial lane are no more. The non permitted taxis, vans and town cars that picked you up at the Hyatt or in the parking garage will soon be extinct. You the passengers will get a vehicle and driver that is permitted at the airport. Permitted is important for one big thing. Permitted to you means that vehicle is covered by proper insurance.
The fellow this thread is about has been seen loading passengers at the Hyatt. He cannot load them in the legal commercial lanes because checker cab is not permitted to pick up at the airport. This is a good time to tell that driver his times are limited too. Unless he leaves the company he is with his vehicle will eventually be caught loading illegally and he will no longer work for Mears. He than can permit a vehicle of his own and work on his own schedule. He cannot permit another vehicle, on his own, while working for Mears.
You, the passenger will benefit by the actions taken at one of the best airports in the world.
Search is so hard to use now that I can't link to it.. (plus last time I did the thread got deleted!)
I thought one of the reasons for these boards was to help each other. That was why I passed on the info another member gave me about this company. There are all kinds of people. 
