NYC cab driver tells all about life behind the wheel — from celeb encounters to a holdup at gunpoint

Jack Trunz was exhausted the night Khakendra Pun picked him up in his yellow cab at LaGuardia Airport. Trunz’s flight from Nashville had been delayed three hours, causing him to miss a buddy’s 30th birthday party.

The last thing he wanted was to jabber with his taxi driver.

But Trunz, 30, an investment analyst in Manhattan, didn’t have much choice. Because schmoozing with customers is what Pun does, regaling them with stories of growing up in Nepal, the 77 jobs he’s had since coming to the United States in 1991, his exploits as a New York City cabbie for the last decade, and the 493-page book about his passengers, “From the Top of Mount Everest to the Winding Streets of New York City,” which he self-published.

He sells the tome from his cab for $39.99 as well as on his website, and half of each sale goes to the Ulleri Foundation, a non-profit he started to open a medical clinic in a village in Nepal.

Trunz was fascinated.

“It was honestly the highlight of my day,” he told The Post. “I said, ‘Tell me more.’ It was one of those situations where I was, like, ‘I wanna root for this guy.’ He seems like a good human being, and we need more of those.”