Taxi Driver Online

So Oct 6th is De-restriction day!!! I better sell the furniture, house, car, scrap the Taxi, clear out the bank accounts!!! Or did you mean watch out for a personel attack of some sort? Can I have your rottweillers for a couple of weeks. It makes you wonder what world Skull is living in? When you look at him he looks Right Wing lol. Maybe Skull regrets leaving our world when he sold out for profit, ye know " if only I'd not sold", he sold because he really believes he is superior, this mission started when his Mugs and T-shirt venture collasped. Superiors who fail are dangerous, hopefully in this case he self harms!!! I will be watching my back though, taylor and skull have already met with the opposition, with those 2 you never know.

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

Dougie, tell us about the time you lost the plot and what caused it?

Making things up now Skull If not you have the wrong guy Care to enlighten the forum of the Story of me or someone losing the plot I'm not the kind of guy to lose the plot as proven within all my posts

Sitting back so come on write me and the forum a story, bedtime story

Then there was the time you did lose the plot slap happy i hear

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

What, you've never had psychiatric help, I don't think anyone believes that. Perhaps, this is your chance to show the Doctor your medallion moment.

There you again with that imaginary man problem you should seek help to get it out of your mind because it doesn't exist. You said "Am I dreaming, or are you working a ridiculous number of hours, in a low-paid industry, with little protection from your council or the public, with almost no control over pay and conditions?" so that would be your subjective reality clouded by your experiences and beliefs of what you think the taxi trade is all about now. As I said you could well be right about it but it is how you perceive things to be and not necessarily the case for everybody so therefore it's not objective. How can you have an objective view of the taxi trade when there are so many variables

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Toots writes:



What you are talking about is subjective reality relative to your own personal circumstance. The key here is looking at the trade in general, as an impartial observer to your industry. Not easy in some cases, granted, as our personal experiences can colour our judgement, but that's where a debate comes into play, and a consensus developed.

You simply use criteria, which allows you to make general comparisons to define your trade. If you had the money, you could survey almost everyone in the industry.

For example, if you need evidence you only have to compare take-home pay to hours worked. And compare that to someone working a forty-hour week, on the national minimum wage. Overall, you will be able to work out if you're working in a low-paid industry.

I don't think there is much chance of an impartial debate about taxis with taxi drivers, but, good luck For what it's worth I enjoy the job when I get chance to do it now. I've always enjoyed it and it's something I wanted to do for a long time before I finally took the plunge. I did try the taxi side but those god forsaken WAVs are truely horrible to drive so now I drive a nice comfy saloon on ph. I earn good money and I've not had much if any flack from licensing in fact they're really quite helpful whenever I've spoken with them. I also appreciate that my reality is not the same as anybody else and that my opinion is very subjective and that's how I like it

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Really, you don't say, and here's me thinking you are the least bias brutally honest person on this forum, and not just some attention-seeking space cadet.

Nah I'll leave the attention seeking to you as your need is greater than mine. It must be cos you keep producing the same discussions but with a different approach. I'd like to see you have an unbiased opinion

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The measure of a truth on this forum is when a question alluding to the truth remains unchallenged.

You say you “ earn good money” without giving a shred of evidence to back it up. And that you've “ not had much if any flack from licensing” as if, this is evidence of having rights and protection if something serious happened.

I would describe the above as a taxi drivers bubble. This is what you want to believe because the alternative is seeing yourself working in a low-paid industry, with little protection from your council or the public, with almost no control over pay and conditions, for all intents, a second-class citizen.

I know guys that earn, what some would consider, good money but when you break that down into hours worked, it's between sixty to eighty hours a week at around the national minimum wage, without even looking at sick pay, holiday pay, pensions or time off the road.

I've also written letters for guys and told them what to say at interview, with the Police, the Cab Inspector and the council to keep their licence. I know for a fact. They see their actions as kissing ass but what's the alternative, when you have no rights to speak of.

Your “How can you have an objective view of the taxi trade when there are so many variables” is simply a bullshit answer to avoid objective reality.


And you did say, “my opinion is very subjective and that's how I like it “ I don't think anyone could argue with that.

It appears your choice is the Dream World, Toots.

With turnover down and fuel prices up my ration is down around 1:5.

Even on a busy weekend night the ratio doesn't get above 1:6 plus.

What part of the game is fecked do the dimwits not understand.

It's one thing to buy a job, to spend your sheckels on servitude, but its another to deny others the right to determine their own efficiency.

Jas, the reason is because fuel is 35% higher, that's why your ratio has fallen, nothing to do with anything else, £4.40 is now £6.40.

The game is fecked I agree, but can't you see the fact they are still queuing up for a drive says there's nothing else out there.

If it remains unchallenged it will be a measure of the author, perhaps people don't think you are worth debating with, same sh*t different day kinda of thing



You're dead right I don't provide evidence, who the hell are you to require evidence. I don't care if you believe me



I'd describe most things you say as bubble. YOU would like to be right about all drivers earning below minimum wage for the hours they work, but, you're not. It may well be a low paid industry for some



Unfortunately I'd say most of us know guys like this



Good for you



It may be a dream world for you Skull, something unobtainable but for me I'm happy as a pig in sh*t in my little 'dream world'

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

So an air head with man problems living in a dream world it is then, I suppose that's a truth of sorts. If you're happy, I am over the moon.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!