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a neighbours family are arriving at BHX in a bit and im the lucky feller fetching them, nothing new there except the neighbour wants taking to meet them....

£25 in the day normally, £30 at night, but can i charge more for loaded both ways?...

i bet if i ring a local firm its £60.....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Don't do cheap runs for anyone even family, if they want a cab they pay the going rate.

Do you pay less for your fuel if you take the neighbours out ?

What is the possibility that you'll get a different job there (though unlikely at that time of morning anyway?), so if you take your neighbour to the airport you may be turning down that job, thus lost income?

im a soft touch, and he tipped me, £35 total for an hours round trip, inc 15 minutes in the A45 layby...

BHX was dead/empty, quietest ive ever seen it

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You have to odds it up, in his mind he will think you are going there anyway, he's bunged you as well and you also created good feeling which may lead to repeat business, it took me 5X longer to earn that last night.

Charge them...there was no saying that you may have been leaving for the airport from somewhere other than home.

About 1 hour and 45 minutes before you started this thread I was wondering too.

There I was first turn on New Street Station at about 23.55hrs last night, when this scraggy West Indian guy in his mid-thirties towing an equally scraggy canvas shopping trolley came up to my driver's window and said, 'How much to Sheffield?'

He didn't like the original price of £208, but eventually I negotiated him into the cab at a price neither he, nor I were that pleased with. He paid up front and off we went.

And just when you started this thread I was driving back out of Sheffield after setting the satnav for 'Home' and choosing 'Avoid Motorways' as my route option.

Sometimes, especially in this economic climate, you just have to say to yourself, 'Am I likely to earn the same or more, if I don't take this job at the price I am being offered to do it for and instead stay and work the rank and streets?'

Shortly after you started this post, I was no longer wondering.

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You did right Brum, someone who wants to ride a £5 fare for £3 can go get told how 2 inspect their own bowel from the inside, when it starts getting a bit of distance on it you use the loaf and work out fuel cost and if what remains is satisfactory to yourself.

I turned down a job the other week; Rugby to Romney Marsh. I thought about it, as i work on the marsh and the customer is a regular when she's here, but asked to collect mum from Rugby.

The local Rugby cab would do it for £200. Here to Rugby 168 miles, return trip 168 miles. Around 340 miles for £200, plus about 7 hours driving on a good day, no thank you! I earnt more a mile doing a couple of trips to Ashford station!

I turned down a trip to Norwich yesterday afternoon, when I was looking for a homeward bounder. Would have done it for £200, I told them, but was put off by the mountain of luggage and the THREE bikes they also wanted to take! A driver who has had many complaints against him for not having a [edited by admin] (rhymes with clucking) clue where he is going in town eventually took them for £160.
On my way back into Lincoln along the A57 (Sheffield) road he passed me with a cheery wave. Goodness gracious me!

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Former taxi driver

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.

And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.

Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.

And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Brum, 3 years ago i did a sheffield from lichfield, 6 lads, wait 2 hours up there and run em home, £170

now some would guffaw and and bemoan me doing cheap jobs but the thing is it suited ME, 120 miles total miles, 30mpg = 4 gallons (about £25 then) and 2 hours waiting, say 5 hours all told


some will say "i wouldnt get outta bed for it"

but i did it and not them....

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we do quite a few of these usually Heathrow BUT round here it's so competitive the best you can get out of them is car parking and a bit of waiting plus the usual fare

The other day I was asked to take 8 passengers to Peterborough and back (going out for a meal) I normally charge £30 each way BUT another firm was also booked for another 8 and they did it for £25 (4 seater price) and in the end I was told by the customer that either I matched the price or they would go elsewhere but since they were regular customers and it was a midweek night I reluctantly did that. It has reached that stage now you cannot charge a penny more for an 8 seater than a 4 seater because there's too many about

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

I've heard there's a similar problem in Folkestone with most of the firms cutting well under the meter price just to get work. From what I've heard no-one is taking any more passengers than before, just doing the job cheaper. Why?