We've had $25 driver minimum in Chicago for for years, and I have paid, and been paid. I never bitched about it. A guy drives to the track in his truck, unloads his race bike, puts on his expensive colors, puts his life on the line driving a half-ton beast that sometimes is a dangerous rat. Been times I didn't get a $25 drive... been times I didn't give them a horse worth $25. Always works out in the end.