[Taxi companies, your days of cornering the market are numbered.]
You do realize that the number of cabs is not controlled by the "Taxi companies" but by the Municipality of Anchorage?  AND that the number of cabs on the road are determined by science, ie. analysis of supply and demand throughout a long period and not just on specific days of snarled traffic/slower speed limits due to snow?
By the way, are you confusing the dispatchers (Checker and Yellow) as "Taxi companies?"