Definitions
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- noun The act of a
taxicab driver takingpassengers on a longdetour to thedestination without theirconsent in order to drive up thefare .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He headed right for the tunnel -- a textbook case of longhauling.
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In practice, the officers say, 80-percent of the citations they write for longhauling get tossed out or reduced to a wrist slap.
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The net result is that longhauling is as common as ever.
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Critics say there's a reason taxi boss Gordon Walker is blissfully unaware of the scope of the longhauling problem.
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In practice, the officers say, 80-percent of the citations they write for longhauling get tossed out or reduced to a wrist slap.
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After the news stories aired, they say, there was a brief show of increased enforcement against longhauling, but then things went back to normal and T.A. employees were given new hoops to jump through.
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The Nevada Taxicab authority told 8 News Now last summer that longhauling is its number one enforcement priority.
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Lewis says his troubles at work began when he tried to write tickets for longhauling.
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It's not longhauling if the driver asks the passenger about taking the more expensive route, but only one of the drivers we hired did so.
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Lewis says his troubles at work began when he tried to write tickets for longhauling.
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