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Niche Biz: ‘Sand taxis’ in North Carolina

By on November 28, 2012 in Ideas

Sand Taxi

Carpe Diem:

The top photo shows how Hurricane Sandy took out a section of Hwy 12 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, making that section of the road now impassable for regular vehicles. There is a bypass around the collapsed highway, but it requires a 4×4 vehicle that can drive on the soft sand without getting stuck. So there is now a thriving business for locals with 4x4s and trailers, who are ferrying two wheel drive vehicles (sometimes with an entire family still inside) across the half-mile or so of sand where the highway is impassible for regular cars. A waitress at a local restaurant told a regular reader of Carpe Diem that the going rate for the “sand taxis” is about $25.

4x4 hurricane sand taxi

Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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