Norshore Cab Assn Evanston

They will give you a thrill ride to be sure, not the good kind. I gave them chance after chance. I didn’t have much experience with taxis before using them, and I was convinced that this kind of driving is just normal for a taxi driver. I didn’t enjoy it, but didn’t see that I had a lot of options. The final straw for me was when I had a worse than average experience with a driver, who not only put us in danger with his driving but was incredibly rude to top it off. The drivers are supposed to except credit as well as cash, they never like it, but they usually show their disappointment in more subtle ways than this rude driver. «You don’t have any cash?» he asked, shaking his head at me disapprovingly after the terrifying ride home. I was shaking by the time I decided to call to complain, something I just don’t do and hadn’t even considered until that point. I had a toddler and a baby in the car with me, which probably didn’t help in coping with the ride home. I wasn’t only scared for my life, but for their.
I complained in the most polite way I knew how. Of course no one wants to hear a complaint, but what I’m trying to say is that I was civil about it and simply explained what happened without any added attitude.
The owner, was completely unsympathetic. If he had been at all apologetic, I might have continued using his company. I’m glad that he wasn’t now because I was motivated to look elsewhere. I found American taxi, and to my surprise not all cab drivers drive like the majority of the ones at Norshore Cab. We have a consistently good experience with American taxi, and on top of that, they have the best prices.

I have used this many times in the last few years.
Most of the time It turns out well.
I had a cab driver take me twenty block from the howard l to my parents house which is 20 – 25 blocks away. This dude must have overdosed from unisom, melatonin, pot and something curry flavored because he was going like 10 miles an hour. He kept on asking me «where is Howard»? when we were driving on Howard. Jeez
The car smelled like this guy took a bath in curry followed by having a goat curry sandwhich in his car for the last 10 years. I had to open the car window even though it was 15 degrees outside.
However to contrast this I have had a ride downtown from the north side from a guy who was a total gentelman and whose son serves in the navy and he talked to me how he reccomended that they have a flat rate to the airport because they want to keep the honest cab drivers honest and the ones who are not honest to put them in their place. It was a nice ride and he helped me understand things from a cabby who has been driving cabs for 20 plus years.
If you compare and contrast these two stories you will understand that what he is saying is true.

ha! guess i should have come here first.
I could not agree more with the other reviewers.
NORSHORE CAB IS TO BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS.
Unlike others here, I actually got picked up, but only to have the driver proceed to:
1 Berate me because his dispatcher gave him the wrong address.
2 Start in immediately about how we should stop to get cash
3 Charge me $ 50 for a $ 35 flat rate ride — which he told me I wasn’t eligible for for some unknown reason
4 Actually ask me to show him how to use his credit card machine because he supposedly didn’t know how… Didn’t I just have cash anyway?
5 Stalk me 3 times at my work because he didn’t realize that AmEx had 15 numbers and thought I had given him the wrong CC number despite never even trying to run it.
All of this and the cab was filthy. The driver drove the whole way with headphones on, sing/​grunting loudly to the music in his ears.
Seriously, I would walk from Evanston to ORD before giving these guys another penny.
STAY AWAY.

Norshore Cab is a real circus act! Im guessing the drivers are probably decent people just trying to make a little money. Unfortunatly, the morons that set up the services have no clue how handle their business. Im guessing they would be less argumentative, less likely to swear at a customer, lie, or hang up if they got paid on a per service basis. Instead they feel free to sit in the office and act like real assholes which ultimatly affects the drivers business. Get a clue people. Your lack of professionalism and down right rudeness does affect your business! Look at the review about you.
Keep in mind these people that you are being rude to also work out in the community at places that you visit.