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What is Handicab?

Handicab brings a brand new way of doing taxicab business here to Clark County. Handicab’s goal is to provide courteous, dependable, and affordable transportation to handicapped residents and visitors and the general public.

Its principal founder, Rob Martin, has a brother who is mentally challenged and a sister who is legally blind. Now that his mother is getting older, Rob sees firsthand the problems older Nevadans face with mobility. Additionally, Rob served on the Opportunity Village board for a number of years and saw unserved transportation needs there, too.

Those personal experiences inspired Rob and his partners to rethink how taxicabs operate—and can operate—here in Southern Nevada. There just has to be a better way.

Handicab will be unlike other taxicab companies in a number of important ways . . .

• Every taxicab in the Handicab fleet will be equipped to accommodate most handicapped requirements.
• Each Handicab driver will receive special training in the needs of handicapped and disabled passengers.
• Handicab dispatchers will be trained to recognize those needs and relay them to the drivers.
• All Handicab taxis will be GPS equipped to better route cabs and cut down on long waits.

Handicab is the first company to apply for recognition as a new taxi company in a long, long time. State law created the Nevada Taxicab Authority which regulates the taxicab business in Clark County, and only here. Handicab’s application will be heard by the Nevada Taxicab Authority and its five person board.

While every taxi in the Handicab fleet will be equipped to accommodate most handicapped requirements, Handicab will offer its prompt, courteous service to the general public as well. Still, the Handicab company ethic of providing transportation to the underserved will remain a training and dispatch priority.

The existing taxicab companies oppose the Handicab application for a license and say they meet the needs of handicapped residents and visitors. Handicab disagrees. There is a real need, and there is a better way to meet that need.

The stories listed here are real—and Handicab encourages you to submit your own stories as well. There are those who gave up on even trying to get a taxi for trips from home to the doctor’s office. Others wait patiently for hours or try to use the overburdened public transportation systems. Some depend on the kindness of relatives or neighbors. Tell us your taxicab story, or, as we call it “My Taxicab Story.”