Magic Taxi ManLOCAL No. 1 Request a run
Broward & Miami-Dade · Same-day availability

Your cake will arrive level.

Independent transport for baked goods, awkward objects, and people who need to be somewhere. Licensed, bonded, insured. Straps, blankets, and a non-slip deck cut to fit the footwell come standard.

Coverage
$2,000,000 general liability
Dispatch
24 hours, every day
Deck
Non-slip, cut to fit
Operation
Family, single vehicle
Load ratings

What fits, and how

Published so you can plan the day around it. Ratings are conservative. Every figure below has been reached at least once and most of them have been exceeded exactly once.

Item
Rated to
Notes
Tiered cake, dowelled
6 TIERS
Seven by arrangement. Eight has been done once and will not be discussed.
Tiered cake, undowelled
3 TIERS
You will be asked about this at pickup. Please have an answer.
Sheet cake
24″ × 36″
Larger sheets ride in the footwell. The footwell is climate-matched.
Cupcake array
144 UNITS
Trays must nest. Loose cupcakes are a different service and a different conversation.
Awkward single item
1 PER RUN
Mattress, armoire, mirror, the thing from the garage. Stairs included; landings noted.
Passengers
3 SEATED
Four if one is a grandmother, who does not count and knows it.
Piano
See § 7.

Rate schedule · current

Services

Quoted per run, not per hour. There is no charge for waiting and there never has been.

§ 7 — Piano

Magic Taxi Man does not transport pianos. This is not a capacity limitation. The straps are rated for it, the dollies are rated for it, and I am rated for it.

A piano was moved once, on the fourteenth of June, up three flights, and no fee was collected. It was the correct thing to do and I would do it again, which is precisely the problem.

Do not ask.


Inventory · verified before each run

What's in the truck

Checked against this list at load-out and again at delivery. The list has grown four times and shrunk once.


Operator

One vehicle, one man, one hat

It started with a phone call about a cake. It has mostly stayed that, though the calls come earlier now and the cakes are taller.

The service area is Broward and Miami-Dade, plus one address in Hollywood that I can reliably find but cannot give anyone directions to.2 If your run falls outside that, ask anyway. It usually works out.

Do you charge for waiting time?

No. Time is what we're carrying (it's the heaviest item on the truck, and yes, it settles — which is why the straps go over the top and not around the middle).

Can you transport a cake in July?

Yes. The vehicle runs cold and the deck runs colder. The cake has never complained.4 I want to be careful about how I've said that.

Do you require a deposit?

No. You are my sister.

Are you insured?

Two million, general liability, certificate available on request.7 Nothing has ever been claimed against it, though the file is thicker than that sentence would suggest.

How far in advance should I book?

A day is plenty. An hour is workable. Three times now the call has come in and the item was already loaded, which I mention only because you'll want to check the back seat before you dial.

What happens if the cake is damaged in transit?

It won't be. But if it is, the run is free, the repair is free, and we do not speak of it again — the same arrangement that covers the fourteenth of June, the mirror, and the long stretch of Griffin Road where the exit is sometimes not where I left it.

2. The house is white. It has always been white. The neighbors are pleasant and do not appear in photographs of the street.
4. See footnote 9.
7. Not to be confused with § 7, which concerns the piano, and which I would rather you didn't read twice.
11. There is no footnote 11 referenced above. I include it because leaving it out felt worse.

Verified · collected at delivery

What people say afterward

★★★★★
Six tiers, twenty-two miles, ninety-four degrees. Level.
Rebecca — Coral Springs
★★★★★
Asked for the airport. Got the airport.
Danny — Davie
★★★★★★★
He arrived before I called. The cake was already inside. I have not asked about this and I do not intend to.
Sibling — verified
★★★★★
Moved my mother's armoire and refused a tip four separate times, once before I offered it.
Teresa — Pembroke Pines

and the road goes soft under the wheels the way a sheet cake goes soft in the sun and somewhere past the turnpike i stop being sure whether i am delivering the cake or the afternoon it belongs to because every run is somebody's whole day folded into a box and taped shut and handed through a car window with both hands and the instruction be careful and i am always careful i have been careful since before there were roads to be careful on the exit was there last time i am nearly certain of it the light comes apart into its colors across the windshield the way it does in the mirrors of a certain kind of ride and the passenger in the back who did not get in says nothing which i appreciate and the frosting holds and the frosting holds and the frosting holds

Anyway.

Dispatch

Where is it, and where does it need to be?

Fill this out and it comes straight to me. If it's urgent, say so in the last box — I read that one first.

Usually answered within the hour. Always answered.