A cab in Fort Smith, any hour
Call (479) 445-3169 and a dispatcher answers. Licensed cabs, city-inspected vehicles and background-checked drivers across Fort Smith, the River Valley, Northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.
In short
Payless Taxi is a licensed cab company. We drive around the clock in Fort Smith, north up I-49, and west across the Oklahoma line.
Call (479) 445-3169 for a ride now, ask for a flat rate on an airport run to XNA or Fort Smith Regional, or set up a standing pickup on our scheduled rides page.
Here is what sets us apart. Payless holds a City of Fort Smith taxi license. The city inspects our cars. Our drivers pass a police background check and carry a permit. We agree on the price before you ride, so bad weather does not raise it. On a 2 a.m. ride home, that is the part people remember.
Most booked
XNA sits about 65 miles north of Fort Smith. Fort Smith Regional is five minutes from downtown. The two trips are nothing alike. We price both before you ride, we plan around your flight time, and we send a van or SUV when the bags will not fit in a car.
Pocola is barely five miles from downtown Fort Smith and Roland is about twelve, both just over the Oklahoma line. We run both as a flat rate, we quote the ride home at the same time, and we answer the phone at 3 a.m. when the casino shuttle has stopped for the night.
A dialysis chair time does not move, so the ride cannot either. We set up standing pickups by the week for dialysis, physical therapy, clinic visits and work shifts, and you deal with the same small company every time instead of whoever an app happens to send.
Five people with suitcases do not fit in a sedan, and finding that out at the curb costs you the flight. Tell us the head count and the bag count on the phone and we send the van or the SUV instead, which is the same thing we do for game-day groups and work crews.
Hotel front desks and plant schedulers do not want to hand a guest a phone app. We open a billing account, your people ride on the account number, and you get one invoice instead of a pile of receipts and reimbursement forms.
Where we pick up
The streets and buildings we are called to most, day and night.
What a ride costs
Short trips inside Fort Smith run on the meter. Long trips are different: the airports, the casinos, and anything out past Greenwood or Ozark get one set price, agreed on the phone before the car leaves.
Four things move that number: how far you are going, how many people are riding, how many stops there are, and whether the car waits for you. Say all four when you call and the price holds. The rates page explains it in full.
Two ways to book
Fastest
A person answers, takes the address, and tells you what to expect. This is the only way that works when you need a car right now.
(479) 445-3169Plan ahead
Install TaxiCaller, enter our app code, and set a pickup without calling. Good for a 4 a.m. flight you would rather sort the night before.
Payless app code 246122
Get TaxiCaller for iPhoneOn Android, search “TaxiCaller” in Google Play.
Service area
Fort Smith is the hub. Downtown and Garrison Avenue. The Rogers Avenue hotels. Chaffee Crossing, UAFS, Mercy and Baptist Health. The airport sits five miles out past the industrial park.
From there the work splits three ways. North on I-49 it is XNA, Fayetteville or a business trip to Bentonville. West on I-40 and US-271 it is the casinos at Pocola and Roland, plus the Oklahoma towns past them. East along the river it is Van Buren, Alma and Ozark.
Find us
The details on our Google profile, in one place, so you can save them before you need a ride.
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week
Why a licensed cab
Payless has a City of Fort Smith taxi license. The car and the driver were checked by the city, not by an app.
We price airport and casino rides before we pick you up. Rain, a holiday or a busy night does not change that number.
You are not watching a screen and hoping. Ask what is available right now and we will tell you.
Set up the same ride each week for dialysis, work shifts or early flights. You deal with the same local company every time.
Rode with us recently? Leave a review on our Google profile so the next person searching at midnight knows what to expect.
For Fort Smith and the River Valley, call (479) 445-3169. For Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville, call (479) 236-2392. Both lines are answered 24 hours.
Yes. The phone is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays. Late-night casino returns and pre-dawn airport runs are a large part of the work.
Local rides run on the meter and longer trips, airport and casino runs in particular, are quoted as a flat rate before you get in. Call (479) 445-3169 with your pickup and drop-off address and you get the number up front.
Payless holds a City of Fort Smith taxi franchise. The city inspects the cars. The drivers pass a police background check and carry a permit. A rideshare driver does not have to do any of that.
Yes. Pocola, Roland, Sallisaw, Poteau, Spiro and Muldrow are regular stops, in both directions across the state line.
Yes, and for anything before 6 a.m. you should. Call the night before with the pickup address and the flight or appointment time and the car is assigned ahead of the morning rush.
It depends where the cars are when you call, so ask and we will give you a real estimate on the phone instead of a countdown on a screen.
Our Fort Smith address is 3911 Towson Ave, Fort Smith, AR 72901. We are a ride service, so start with a call and the car comes to you.
Yes. FSM is about five miles from downtown, so it is a short run. Give us your flight time when you book, and call when you land if the flight moves.
Call and tell the dispatcher what you need. We will tell you honestly what vehicle we can send and whether we are the right fit for that trip.
Our Google Business Profile is the fastest way to reach dispatch from a phone: tap the number, or save the profile so the call button is one tap away next time you need a cab.
Call and talk to a dispatcher, any hour of the day or night. Have your pickup address, destination and the number of riders ready and the whole call takes about a minute.
