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Yes.

only on here, out on the rank the first one im near will do for most of the public

are you saying you wouldnt pull away if i got in your vehicle and you were not the front car?...

tantamount to "deliberatly causing delay of a passengers journey"????

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Actualy, looking at that picture I'd be highly surprised if most if any of that is a legal taxi rank, except first 3, cant see no road markings, and the back 2 are definately illegally parked.

well your wrong

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That's excatly what I'm saying and I'd happily go before the committee if some punter reported me for it.

What a load of sheit you talk wanabee
Are you sure your not a space cadet
Every taxi driver in the UK who pays for a licence, should be given the chance of making a living fairly, and the only way to do that is change the law, so that the punter has to use the first cab from any rank.
granted you may get a short run or 2 but eventually you will get a long one, but in my book long or short I am still making and thats what its all about.

twaddle, every (or almost every) hack on a rank is a business, very often an owner driver, theres nothing anywhere to suggest a member of the public can be forced to take any particular vehicle, I kno whacks are paranoid about so many things (minicabs, limos, deregulation,etc,etc) but start forcing your will on the public and watch them stay away in droves, or doesnt the customer have any choice?....

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I agree the customer has a choice but they also need to respect etiquette or unwritten rules of our trade.

Front cab it is then.

To be fair most ranks are short ranks and most customers are reasonable and understand the unwritten rule of first cab first job. Having said that I believe the customer does have the choice as to which cab they get into and the driver is obliged to take them. Being faced with a rank as long as the one in the picture nobody would expect an ambulantly disabled person to walk to the front of the queue surely.

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Why should they have a choice every cab is a cab and in areas that have all the same vehicles how are the punters meant to know who is who.
We have 2 ranks one of them is used as the main one and the other is actually a quarter of a mile in distance in front of it in another st if folk went to the second rank they would save 50p a journey and they have to go past it anyway due to a 1 way system

Your example would possibly be an exception toots, but then again those type of customers normally ring for a cab and don't walk the streets looking for a hac.

An exception to the rule I'm quite good at that being one myself

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If you were a hack, you'd know what your talking about.
Pillock

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In my neck of the woods etiquette is dead and buried and nothing that cab drivers do anymore, surprises me. I don't know the full circumstances of what transpired on the morning in question or how hectic it might have been at that particular time but perhaps the poster has the incident on his conscience to make an issue of it on TDO? In my opinion you either practice etiquette or you don't.

Under normal circumstances I would have got out of my cab and asked the driver in front if he was working or alternately ask the passenger to wait for one moment until it was clear the driver in front had a job. I find it quicker to do the former and get out of my cab and ask the driver in front if he is working.

The person who took the job in question knows his own limitations and only he knows if he would do the same thing if circumstances were different.

In Manchester I can honestly say that the game is well and truly faacked and that is partly because of the disintegration of good manners and propriety. I suspect the rest of the UK is not much different and reading some of the comments so far would certainly confirm my observations.

I can’t leave this subject without proportioning blame in Manchester and as ever candid as I am I can honestly say that there are two elements that have greatly contributed to the erosion of propriety in that fair City.

One is the over supply of vehicles and the other is the cultural divide between the majority of drivers who are Asian or other ethnicity and the minority of drivers who are indigenous Brits. I’m afraid that is the reality of the situation and I have no qualms in saying so.

Regards

JD

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