Accepting Credit When Credit Is Due . . .

But if you are going to jerk around your fares, at least make sure you first check the name on the card:

Cabdrivers are flouting a new law by throwing up roadblocks to frustrated riders who try to pay with plastic, the Taxi and Limousine Commission chairman said yesterday.

The problem is so widespread, one dishonest hack even tried to refuse the TLC chairman’s credit card.

“It is going to give the industry a black eye,” chairman Matthew Daus told cab-company owners at a monthly TLC meeting.

Daus said that during his ride, a cabby hit a button on the meter from the front seat that selected cash for him. When the commissioner complained that he wanted to pay with his credit card, the driver said it was too late.

The TLC has since changed the meters so that taxi drivers cannot make a selection between cash and credit from the front seat, but drivers continue to insist their credit-card machines are broken.

“It’s just plain wrong,” Daus said yesterday. “This is just breaking the law.”

So then there must be something to those accusations . . .