New York City may have the Taxi of Tomorrow these days, but a new take on the classic Checker cab could soon be on the road. Checker Motor Cars of Haverhill, Mass., is planning to manufacture two ...

Checker Motors Corp., the parts supplier that gained fame in the middle of the last century with the Checker Marathon taxi cab, has filed for bankruptcy protection after 87 years in business.

A computerized dispatcher system will be installed in 650 Yellow and Checker taxis within eight months, bringing quicker service to telephone customers throughout Chicago, a cab company official ...

ML Car Service Ltd. acquired the phone number of the beloved Maxwell Taxi Cab. Co. at the end of April. ML's CEO is ...

Once a vital part of day-to-day transportation in major cities like Chicago, Boston and, most notably, New York, Checker-brand taxis ceased production in 1982 and the cabs have since been replaced … ...

Morris Markin, the founder of Checker Taxi Cabs, had humble beginnings. At twelve years old, in the early 1900’s, Morris Markin had started working in the largest commission supplier in Smolesk ...

Among members of the Checker Cab Car Club, the true home of the beloved bulbous taxis is under dispute. For some, it is New York City; for others, it is Kalamazoo, Mich.

Local taxi company Nashville Checker Cab is currently under fire for how drivers have been allegedly overcharging and mistreating their passengers.

Checker built the taxis from 1922 to 1959 and in late 1958, Checker entered into the everyday consumer car business. They put together a network of dealers and introduced its new 1959 Checker ...

Elon Musk has long promised to put a fleet of driverless Tesla “robotaxis" on the roads, but fans and shareholders have been ...

Anne Morrissy’s lively new book, Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s, concentrates largely on a decade-plus span, from the 1910s into the 1920s, when Yellow Cab and Checker Taxi ...