Eco Friendly Cab

This company is owned by non other then the family of DARMINDER Mann. Now this guy is a born thief. he took a grant from the city of Oakland to deposit it in his own bank account to spend it on himself. That’s right he took Oakland tax payer money to use as his own personal money. Just like all of their businesses they get horrible reviews because they don’t care about anything but stealing YOUR money. This cab service just like friendly cab in Oakland will steal your money. Drive around and bill you more. Under quote you and charge you double. Karma is a great thing. One day mommy and daddy’s money may run out. or better yet DAR will end up were he belongs PRISON.

Got in car accident on the Bay bridge and my rental car needed to be towed. I needed to get quickly from Oakland to San Jose to make the last flight out. They were super quick to arrive and were friendly and quick but safe to get us to the airport. I would use again and recommend to others.

Wish I could give it ZERO stars. Friends and I were staying at the Marriott in downtown Oakland. We needed 2 cabs. The hotel called the cabs for us. The first cab in line was an ECO Friendly Cab, cab #243. He refused us service. After waiting for our group as we were ready to load, he refused to take us. He told the bellman he wouldn’t take us and shooed us away. I cannot imagine why this would happen. Very rude and unprofessional. The manager of the hotel said they will not use this company again, I sure hope that is true!

Needed a ride to go pick up my car which was in for servicing. Was told it would take 15 minutes by the friendly dispatcher.
Exactly 15 minutes later I was picked up, had a nice chat with the driver.
Overall a good experience, will definitely use in the future if the need arises

Probably pretty good if you’re white. If you’re black, they’ll deny you service.

Not impressed at all.
Neither «Eco» (non-​hybrid taxi) nor friendly service.

If I could give negative stars to this company I would. The online reservation system is an utter sham. We needed a ride only 5 miles away for New Years Eve. We waited 30 minutes for a cab that never came and had to drive to our destination instead and could not enjoy the evening as much as if we had cabbed there and back.
Thanks for screwing up another New Years Bay Area taxi companies!

Eco-​Friendly Cab might set you up with a driver from hell (or it might not… but I have no idea about the latter). My boyfriend dropped off his rental car and needed a cab to take him home today, so the rental service called Eco-​Friendly Cab to pick him up. The driver that showed up was clearly on a hard drug; I will not speculate which. (To add to the bizarrerie, the driver was also covered in what appeared to be sores and had very odd patchy hair.)
The driver did not know where he was going and said that he liked his customers to tell him where to go. Luckily, my boyfriend knew the location of his own house, so as he proceeded to supply the directions, the driver drove very slowly while trying to carry on an incoherent and entirely unwelcome conversation. About two-​thirds of the way through the ride, the bill was already beyond what it should have been for the whole ride. The whole situation got so bad that my boyfriend, who was pretty sick with the flu, ended up getting out of the car, paying for this «service,» and walking the rest of the way in freezing weather. I am appalled — we have never had to deal with a driver this horrendous before, and we’ve traveled all over the world for many years in a row. This is completely unacceptable. Does Eco-​Friendly Cab not run a background check on its drivers? Does the company not monitor whomever it hires? WHAT ARE YOU DOING, ECO-​FRIENDLY CAB?
Oh, that’s right. You are living up to your name! OF COURSE YOU ARE ECO-​FRIENDLY WHEN YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE ESCAPING YOUR CABS AND WALKING HOME.

My cab driver was also the dispatcher! Spent the entire 40 minute cab ride looking at his phone, texting, scrolling on his phone, making calls. I know lots of people do this, but I don’t and I don’t think it’s safe. He also wasn’t familiar with my route and the roads, and was driving on the freeway and a bridge while doing all this. I was nervous and told him so. He was taking down addresses and other information the whole time.
Not safe. The driver said he was filling in for the regular dispatcher who was out that day, but I don’t care. They need a backup system.

I wish I could give 0 stars to these guys. Don’t trust their online reservation system. I reserved a cab to take me to BART to get to SFO. Cab was reserved for 5 am, and when it hadn’t shown up at 10 after, I called their number only to be told they didn’t have a reservation. The guy gave me another number to call, which no one answered. I ended up having to call for another cab, causing me a LOT of stress trying to get to the airport on time. Maybe they’re great if you don’t reserve online, I dunno, and I’ll never find out, because I won’t be calling them again.

I needed to take BART to get to OAK but the Emery Go Round wasn’t running early enough and my friends nearby were already gone for spring break. I called Eco Friendly Cab and they told me they would be at my front door in 15 minutes. Unfortunately, they misheard my street name, so I went downstairs and got a call that my cab had arrived, it was nowhere to be found and we realized they were on the wrong street. I repeated my street name and they were there in less than ten minutes. The Prius was very clean and the driver was polite. He took the route I would have taken to get to the BART station, not some windy, roundabout way that you sometimes get with cab drivers. I would use them again.

Hell Cab. Stinky. They quoted me $ 65 to SFO from Oakland over the phone and then Charged me $ 90 @ the aiport plus toll.
Refused to except a credit card, and then proceeded to try and detain in his cab.
I would rather walk then ride in Eco Friendly Cab. They are more like 3^rd world hustlers than a car service.
Just use
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I must say they are One of best & honest cab ever! So I took Eco friendly taxi this weekend to attend giants game & left my iPod the cab! Their diver was so nice & honest that he hold on to my iPod & after the game, he spotted me n handed my iPod back to me! It’s hard to find honest people nowadays but these guys are serving the community with integrity, dedication & honesty!
I strongly recommend their taxi services to everyone!

Had made a reservation via their web page for the next day and had gotten a confirmation email that the reservation was good. Next morning, no cab showing up. I called and they explained that they don’t take reservations for local destinations. Terrible service, they should not send out confirmation emails for reservations they don’t take.

I gave it three starts.
Positive:
1. Cab was on time
2. Cab was clean
3. Cab driver didn’t talk (trust me, sometimes I get a very chattery ones, who cannot shut up)
Negative:
1. The driver was too slow (you know you are going slow when other taxis are going faster than you
2. Driver didn’t accept credit card (go figure)
3. Driver didn’t talk because he didn’t speak English
4. Didn’t get 10% discount that was promised online and on the phone

Quoted $ 25 night before ride from northeast Berkeley to Oakland airport. Ended up being charged $ 39, including a $ 5 discount. Driver was cool about it; not his fault the dispatcher was not honest… but stuff like this should not happen.

I reserved a cab on their website for a ride to OAK. My flight was early in the morning so I scheduled the cab for 6:00am. I received my e-​mail confirmation, so I figured everything was good to go. My partner and I stumbled out to the corner to wait for the cab but it never showed up. I called them and was told that they had called me 30 minutes ago and when I didn’t answer (because it was 5:30 and I was ASLEEP with my phone off), they canceled the cab. I had planned everything so that we would arrive at the airport just as the plane was boarding, so I didn’t have the time to wait 15 minutes for them to send a second cab, so I ended up driving, parking in the economy lot and spending over $ 100 to park there. They might be friendly, they might be reliable, but if you are going to cancel my cab if I don’t answer my phone at 5:30am, please tell me when I make my reservation or put it somewhere on your website.

Our cab showed up early and our drive was speedy and safe. We had a very friendly driver and his cab was clean and… dare I say it… smelled good!

Excellent service!
Once I called a cab and the driver came and I didn’t need the ride anymore. I felt really bad and came down to tell him in person and he was totally fine with it. He told me I should have just told him on the phone and didn’t even have to come down. He said it was no problem at all.
The next time I used their service, the driver was very friendly and easy to talk to. I needed to go somewhere in Oakland and he got me there very quickly. When I needed a ride back, Berkeley cab transferred my call to someone in Oakland so that I would be picked up as soon as possible instead of waiting for someone from Berkeley. I was so impressed. Very nice people looking out for the customer first, not their own paychecks.
The number I use is 510−506−2000.

Friendly cab driver (I’ve only meet one of their staff members) that wasn’t too talkative but got me where I needed to go on time and gave me his business card if I needed future rides. I’m not really sure why they call themselves Eco Friendly Cab because nothing on their website or in their cabs (which was almost always a van despite the fact that I am one small person) indicates eco-​friendly practices going on. Also, their on-​line system for reservations doesn’t always seem to work. I would put in two reservations at a time — one from my house to an appointment and the other one from the appointment to my home but for some reason only the first reservation would stick. They don’t always call to confirm online reservations which leaves you wondering if they will/​hoping that they actually pick you up. You do recieve an email confirmation for reserving a taxi online but it is automated so the personal touch is missing. I think they are a new company though so I will cut them some slack.