Taxi Driver Online

I previously posted;


Of course there hasn't!!

But without those bare details you couldn't do the f***ing job, could you?

To do the job you need to know the pick-up point, date and time of pick-up, you need to know their name; otherwise you won't know where, when, on what date and who you were supposed to be picking up!!

There would be NO JOB!!

What you don't need to know or record is where they are going, how many passengers there are and any other details.

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And the same applies to you Mr T!!

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Conditions on a Hackney proprietor, but bye-laws on a Hackney driver.

And as you have written in the past, what's stopping a landline being advertised, which has incoming calls diverted automatically to a mobile?

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Yes I know of areas like yours. Where I work I just love it if the PHs are busy bringing them into the City.............cos we get to take them home.

It does vary area to area as to whether you need a radio or not........I do not need one, so that is a saving of at least £5,200 pa, which will buy me a little bit of extra fuel.

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

1 - isnt a owner driver also an operator?
2 - that wasnt the question, i said "no mobile number to be used to solicit"

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Different issues.

Signage is in the powers of councils, operating procedure for taxis isn't.

Unless someone can point a statute to me that says otherwise.

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IDFIMH

If you are talking about the way you work, then clearly that info is required.

But I thought we were talking about laws, in which case they aren't required.

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The confusion here seems to be over what needs to be logged or recorded.

After all, an HC could be doing pre-booked work all night without actually writing down anything, and perfectly legally?

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Caledonian Cabbie

If the driver has a mind like a computer.

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He wouldn't be driving a cab.

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IDFIMH

You'll be surprised.

We have Uni graduates doing the job in Brum.

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you assume they have the power of logical thought

theres "clever" and theres "smart/crafty"

2 uni-boys i worked with didnt know the A5 was the watling street

(and they worked in distribution)

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Why?

You mean a driver taking jobs from an office on an old-fashioned two-way radio all night couldn't do this without writing anything down?

Of course they could. So what's the huge difference between that and taking calls on a mobile phone? The driver could easily keep a handful of bookings in his head, and won't need to remember a large number of jobs because people won't wait that long anyway.

And the chances are that a driver operating in this way will rarely get more than a couple of calls at the same time anyway, unless of course his name is skippy.

Surely you're capable of recalling the details of the last handful of jobs you took off the street, so why couldn't you do this with pre-booked jobs?

Are you sure you're a cab driver, Brummie?

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Caledonian Cabbie

I doubt if it has anything to do with intellect, more a calm and organised mind, and a good memory.

I know people who are controlling several cars via two-way radios and taking the calls and driving customers around themselves at the same time.

Not a thing I'd be good at myself, but a good old-fashioned taxi controller could easily drive and take a few calls at the same time?

So a lone driver could easily take a string of bookings without actually recording or logging anything.

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