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Author:  trueblue2 [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:06 pm ]
Post subject:  lady driver disillusioned
Advice? your thoughts please..... OK I'm newish (7 months) aged 49 ish :D lady driver Hackney carriage. Licensed for smaller town just outside large seaside town don't want to put exact area here. I'm finding days just don't pay my car rent/petrol/housebills, so its been nites, nites and more nites mostly station work. Been doing (Mon - Thurs tho usually take monday off or just do couple of hours on monday) 5pm til last train at 2am sometimes going out a bit earlier 4.30pm or so. Fri & sats 4p.m. til 3.30am or recently, as its picked uptil, 4.30am approx. Then sometimes Sunday afternoons/early evenings. I'm struggling with no life, no social life, sleeping most of the day away, not taken a weekend off at all (can't afford to - make most of my money after 1.30 am Fri and Sats of course). Mon - Thurs and sometimes part of Fri pays car rent and petrol, then the rest of Fri, Sat and Sun pays home bills and any extra money hmmmm - not a lot of extra money tho :roll: I'm not looking to earn fortunes but thought it would be easier than this. I don't have a school run tho i've had my name down for 1 for the last 6 months with no luck... it's a smallish circuit but the company is well known in the larger town, where i'm not licensed but where we take cover work weekends to make our money up, as work in own area is dead after last train. I'm not enjoying the picking up of the :?: heads from the clubs/pubs etc. most are fine i've not had probs i'm just going right off it all. I dunno, was so happy when i passed knowledge, really looking forward to this job, but i'm losing it now its just work an sleep with 1 day off and no life. Don't know what other job to do - anyone else feel like this? Or is it just me fed up with it all? Don't want to quit but can't seem to get the right balance between work/sleep/a life - :-s
Author:  bordercars [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:40 pm ]
Post subject:  24/7
when i first started out on my own i did every hour in the book, 7 days a week and did 15 months without a day off, it was hard but you do get there in the end. can i make one suggestion
, use the fact that your'e a girly, i know many ladies that would like to travel with a female driver but there ain't to may around, also try social services and any old folks homes maybe offer them account facilities if you can. i also administer another site aimed at distance work like airports , it is elsewhere on this forum and is called taxi exchange and can be found here

http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/vie ... highlight=

direct link

http://www.communityzero.com/taxi-exchange
Author:  Stinky Pete [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: lady driver disillusioned
trueblue2 wrote:
anyone else feel like this? Or is it just me fed up with it all?


Yes, every day, sometimes/most times
Author:  TDO [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 24/7
bordercars wrote:
when i first started out on my own i did every hour in the book, 7 days a week and did 15 months without a day off....


You should have kept on going.... :shock:
Author:  bordercars [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 24/7
TDO wrote:
bordercars wrote:
when i first started out on my own i did every hour in the book, 7 days a week and did 15 months without a day off....


You should have kept on going.... :shock:


the point was i got there in the end, you get some sort of life back but lets face it people want a cab when, the pub shuts, the show ends at the end of a meal etc so we all knopw that we are going to be working unsociable hours, but get it right and the rewards are there.
Author:  bordercars [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 24/7
TDO wrote:
bordercars wrote:
when i first started out on my own i did every hour in the book, 7 days a week and did 15 months without a day off....


You should have kept on going.... :shock:


the point was i got there in the end, you get some sort of life back but lets face it people want a cab when, the pub shuts, the show ends at the end of a meal etc so we all knopw that we are going to be working unsociable hours, but get it right and the rewards are there.
Author:  Sussex [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: lady driver disillusioned
trueblue2 wrote:
I'm struggling with no life, no social life, sleeping most of the day away, not taken a weekend off at all (can't afford to - make most of my money after 1.30 am Fri and Sats of course). Mon - Thurs and sometimes part of Fri pays car rent and petrol, then the rest of Fri, Sat and Sun pays home bills and any extra money hmmmm - not a lot of extra money tho. :roll:

And I bet some of the drivers/operators said you could bundles. :roll:

That said I think if you can hack the first two years of it, then usually this job has got you for life. :-$
Author:  GBC [ Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: lady driver disillusioned
trueblue2 wrote:
OK I'm newish (7 months) aged 49 ish :D lady driver Hackney carriage.


Is that you again JD?
Author:  trueblue2 [ Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:33 am ]
Post subject: 
thanx all, will take on board what you've said........ :)
Author:  Skull [ Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: lady driver disillusioned
greenbadgecabby wrote:
trueblue2 wrote:
OK I'm newish (7 months) aged 49 ish :D lady driver Hackney carriage.


Is that you again JD?



The thought did cross my mind. “I wonder what that say's about me”. Don’t answer that it’s not a question. Christ, I am ever talking to myself.

Where do you work trueblue2?

I'm starting to get paranoid, is anything what it seems?

Trueblue 2 be true perhaps?

JD you are up to your nonsense, funny ha ha :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Author:  trueblue2 [ Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:34 pm ]
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:?: No, i'm new on here - not JD didn't mean to confuse anyone :?
Author:  TDO [ Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:36 pm ]
Post subject: 
I don't think drivers in the smaller towns will ever make a fortune, and even in the big cities they generally have to work long and unsocial hours.

I just console myself by remembering that at least there are some perks, like having a 'free' car as my private vehicle, and being able to work when it pleases me. And there are always people worse off than yourself. :?
Author:  JD [ Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:25 am ]
Post subject: 
trueblue2 wrote:
:?: No, i'm new on here - not JD didn't mean to confuse anyone :?


You certainly didn't confuse me? lol

I can't understand why anyone would mistake you for me, can you?

Regards

JD
Author:  JD [ Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: lady driver disillusioned
greenbadgecabby wrote:
trueblue2 wrote:
OK I'm newish (7 months) aged 49 ish :D lady driver Hackney carriage.


Is that you again JD?


Have I ever given you the impression that I sit down to peee? lol

When I start asking to borrow your makeup, you can perhaps allude to me wearing French Nickers?

Regards

JD
Author:  JD [ Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: lady driver disillusioned
trueblue2 wrote:
Advice? your thoughts please..... OK I'm newish (7 months) aged 49 ish :D lady driver Hackney carriage. Licensed for smaller town just outside large seaside town don't want to put exact area here. I'm finding days just don't pay my car rent/petrol/housebills, so its been nites, nites and more nites mostly station work.


They tell me the streets of London are paved with gold, my advice would be to do a Dick Whitington and try your luck in the Capitol, they could do with a few ladies with a sense of humour.

Regards

JD
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