Chicago's Largest Cab Company Honors 51 Outstanding Drivers

  WHEN:   Thursday, September 14
          11 a.m.

  WHERE:  Chicago Carriage Cab cab barn
          2617 South Wabash Avenue

  WHO & WHAT:  Top Cabbies Saluted & Serenaded

  --  Simon Garber, former cabbie and founder of Chicago Carriage Cab (CCC)
      -- Chicago's largest cab company with over 700 cars on the road --
      presents 50 outstanding drivers with $50 vouchers for free gas fill-
      ups as CCC celebrates its third anniversary.

  --  CCC 2005-2006 Driver of the Year Milton Roberts -- a Chicago cabbie
      since 1967 -- puts his handprint and signature in wet cement and adds
      them to CCC's Driver Walk of Fame. Roberts also receives a cash award.

  --  Classic Chicago Blues performed by Piano C. Red and his Flat Foot
      Boogie Band. Red, formerly a CCC driver and musician, was paralyzed by
      a robber's bullet last March. He was reunited with his band after
      Garber gifted him with a free car for transporting band gear and
      vouchers for disabled transport enabling Red to travel to band
      performances.

  --  Milton Roberts reads Roberts' Rules of the Road -- his tips for
      courteous cab driving.

  PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES:

  --  Simon Garber hands out free gas vouchers to 50 top drivers.

  --  CCC Driver of the Year Milton Roberts puts hand print and signature in
      Driver Walk of Fame and presents his Rules of the Road for all
      cabbies.

  --  Former cabbie Piano C. Red and his Flat Foot Boogie Band play classic
      Chicago Blues.

  Contact:
  June Rosner or Ellen Pritsker
  Rosner Public Relations
  312 664 6100
  rosnerpr@earthlink.net

PRNewswire -- Sept. 14