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Grandad,

that would be only 15 minutes worth of work in galashiels then where there isn't a recession and everyone leaves their cars behind and has a taxi

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Around here, that would be slim pickings

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I remember the good old days back in the time (about a week ago) of Dusty and Skippy, when you could do 10 jobs an hour. You know, it seems like it was only yesterday. Ah those were the days . ..

just over 6hrs and 15 jobs later just over £100 [edited by admin] poor day today so far. At home now waiting for job

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In fact normally I would say street cars are disadvantaged in that way because normally they'll be going out from the centre and back in, with limited potential for a flag before they get back to the centre, while office cars have more potential for a phone job in the suburbs.

However, in the particular environment I'm talking about - Christmas Day, particularly late evening - there's flags all over the place, indeed in the suburbs rather than the centre, so street cars are not having to hike/drag so far.

And as I said the punters weren't going so far as normal either, so probably one or two spells doing five jobs in half an hour (or whatever), thus allowing for leaner periods but still keeping the average up



Well I accepted your figure of five per hour as a maximum, but I did say that the period in question was a lot longer than 12 hours.



Again the period I worked was a longer than 12 hours.



Well I wasn't trying to justify Skippy's figures as such - that's up to him.



How would that work then? Slower at changing gear? Slower at counting out the change? More time between the passenger stating the destination and it registering in your brain?

Yes, you're gonna be tired towards the end of a shift of that length, but I can't really see it significantly affecting your work rate, at least in the context of the variables we're talking here.

So, you don't stop for a pi*s or a bite to eat, and you don't take smaller breaks more regularly just to keep yourself going? Of course, the customers over the period also become more obliging. They become less drunk and more sober, and they don't puke up or argue over fares or change their minds and above all, they sit in the street with the right money in their pockets just waiting for you to come around the corner.





Yeah sure you did?


Dusty, are you sure, you're a taxi driver, because you certainly don't work in any world that I recognise.

So how long does it take to have a quick pish every few hours?

I don't normally have meal breaks, and normally just have a snack on the ranks, but I can't really recall what I did that particular day, because I was cruising rather than on the ranks. But I doubt if my meal breaks were significant in the grand scheme of things.

I went out just after lunch and finished at maybe 5am, so even with a couple of breaks I could still have been doing 15 hours.

I should say though that I don't normally work those hours, in fact completely the opposite.



Well clearly none of them puked up, but yes for a few hours it was different to what I'd ever seen or ever seen since, since I only recall doing those particular hours on one Christmas Day.

Not saying it happens everywhere, or even that it still happens where I did it, but it did happen.




Well you've said absolutely nothing to persuade me to the contrary.



Well I can't recall you being there either, so to that extent we're in agreement

Gosh, though, not another non-driver doubting the word of those actually doing the job?

You're beginning to sound a bit like Trevor, Skull - there are taxi drivers and those who drive taxis.

But of course there's the one he always misses out (for obvious reasons) - there are those who don't drive taxis at all.

The last two evenings have been pish.

South Ayrshire have opted for Double Time, on the Meter, after 9p.m. tonight. I think that I will be offering Deep Discounts to my Regulars, but haven't decided what to offer the Rif-Raf yet!

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Dusty, you have never done anything like 100 jobs in one shift, not even close. And any claim, to the contrary, is a pure fiction. Oh and Dusty, I'm not trying to persuade you of anything, simply because any self-respecting taxi driver operating in the real world knows you are talking, tripe.

What I am curious about is, why, you and Skippy feel the need to talk, absolute sh*te, and want to convince others, it's the truth. I've met many taxi drivers like you and Skip, and I just can't fathom out why all your eggs have to be double-yokers. You do realise the only people you are fooling is yourself?

I'm now wondering if taxi drivers are more prone to making exaggerated claims than anyone else. Every rank in the City seems to have at least one bullsh*t artist. And I can only assume it's the same everywhere else.

Do you know what the 'thick end' of something means, Skull?

You conceded that five jobs an hour is possible, thus even assuming 15 hours that's 75 jobs - QED.

Anyway, I couldn't care less what you think - if you don't believe me then that's your loss.

As for bull-shitting, I could say quite a lot in return on that score, but since it's New Year's Eve I'll say nothing

And I'll be offline till a few days into 2012, so HNY to yourself and everyone else

Oh Skippy if you had only done 40 jobs on Christmas day Skull and Dusty Bin wouldnt be arguing look what you have started.Tonight you could hit the 100 plus mark and the arguments could go on for another 5 pages.Good luck.

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I conceded that a 3-5 job average was possible over a 12-hour period. Your 75 jobs, for 15 hours is at the extreme end, of what most, rational thinking people accept is unachievable in the real world.

So no Dusty, your "thick end of 100 jobs" is still a pipe dream.


Anyhoo, have a HNY, in the perfect little world you inhabit, because next year you'll be lucky if you're doing 100 jobs a week.


Have a good one Dusty.

No discounts here, if they can afford to go out on the sauce they can afford a taxi home, simples.