Mansfield Taxi Changing Hands
Mansfield Taxi selling to Newton-based Veterans Taxi.
The Mansfield Board of Selectmen voted 5-0 to approve a transfer of ownership of Mansfield/Sharon Taxi to the Veteran’s Taxi service of Newton on Wednesday. The decision came under scrutiny during discussion when selectman Jess Aptowitz asked if the taxi cabs and drivers already certified by Mansfield to do pickups in Mansfield would continue working in Mansfield or would new and uncertified drivers/vehicles be taking over. “We’re going to have a company here that we don’t know,” he said. “We haven’t seen them haven’t talked to them… Now this is a new company that’s going to take over this business and we don’t know anything about them.” Such a review is called a hacking license, which basically allows a cab and its driver to pick up in …
