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Started 14.30pm today, finished 22.30pm, so that's 8 hours worth, total take £50.80p less expenses probably left me with around £13 to myself.

So, I'd like to thank Tony Bliar for giving me 2000 more drivers to compete with, the local PH for undercutting what is a dire cheap rate, laughable rate infact, I'd like to thank the PH barons who have facilitated the 2000 extra mouths to feed working their all in deal of a car and house and you can keep the rest for yourself Pedro, I'd like to thank whoever removed the license conditions of 1 year UK driving license and 1 yr resident before you can apply for a badge, not to mention those who thought letting someone who can't speak English drive a cab was a good idea and providing them with a babysitter to take the test with them incase they didn't understand the question let alone be able to read it, George Osbourne for his kind 50% increase in fuel prices since taking over, George Osbourne again for cutting so many jobs the flower is now a dying stem, the nightclubs for enforcing a student only policy alienating everone else who might actually use a cab to get home, and the council for allowing it under the clubs freedom to decide who is allowed in and who isn't, I'd like to say a really speciasl thx to the council again for jacking up council tax by 150% over an 8 year period, inflation eh, I'd like mto thx all those getting £1M+ bonuses for failing in what they do, that money could employ a whole heck of 15k pa employees, instead I'll just waste another hour of my day cos you don't have any counter staff shall I, I'd also like to mention the drivers who rip the customers off on a daily basis making up their own fair scales to suit, there are others who I'd like to thx as well for f**king up my business and also my country.

The dead hole of northern europe.


Oh, and to add to the complete shafting of the Uk, lets do some football eh, lets do Old Trafford, well without going into detail I wouldn't have shaken that fakes hand either, get me an 8 match ban etc etc and you wanna shake hands like nothing happened, get real, and the proof is at the end of the game when Evra goes to the fans waving his arms about behind the other guys back, cats away, mouse will play, but there are only a few ppl left in the UK that can see that, and the Sky reporter interviewing Dalgliesh afterwards typifies what has happened, little tittle tattler has to know the news, a busy, shonky wanna bun type of person, ask the question but if you have to ask twice work it out the guy doesn't wanna discuss it, I see the coffin dodger had plenty to add to it when he was interviewed afterwards, anyway, Man Utd are the reason football is going to die, £800M in debt, buy every cup and get supported by people who aren't from the city, losers that have to associate with something winning to compensate for their own dull existance, sadly the other side of Manchester is now joining the club.

Boy you did have a bad day all round.

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Grandad,

that doesn't sound too bad my worst ever saturday was £44 takings for 12 hours ! this week was a little busier than that but you know doom glass is empty even when half full

I have to disagree about the racism issue though Suarez didn't get the 8 match ban for nothing and I think a hand shake would have proven he was a better man able to move on etc etc instead Liverpool made to look like bad boys again which is a shame for such an illustrious club

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

and the next nomination for "The Victor Meldrew 2012" award is.....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Suarez (a Uruguayan) made a racist remark?

Well lets hope no-one ever calls him one of the well-know "names" available.............

Pot --- Kettle -----Black------

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Maybe he did, but what did Evra say to provoke it, watch the Terry vs Ferdinand video, Ferdinand deffo says something to Terry before Terry replies with what I assume is the statement that's landed him in the muck.


Also it wasn't just a bad day, it's been a bad 36 mths now, I've watched etiquette fall by the wayside, listened to countless customers say they got charged double what it should be, seen a fleet of nice cars become run what you brung's, I saw it coming quite a while beforehand tbh, but nobody listens, everyone will be listening in the future though when the fighting starts, and it will, the air of discontent is strong and anything from a street war to a full blown one is possible now, especially with trigger happy nations having the arsenals to wipe out with now, anyway things are as I imagined they would be now, it's like the middle part of Back to the Future Pt2 now where the courthouse is now a casino and mob rules.

Why on earth did you finish at 10.30pm. Most of our business (Ayr) comes after midnight.

OK, so I do a 12 hour shift. but my Sales were roughly 4x yours and 3/4 of that came after midnight.

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Don't dream it ~ Be it.

How do you life on that????????

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He's the slave of all slaves who serves none but himself.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

Alba Gu Bràth

I started at the same time as Doom and by his finishing time I had taken just over double what he took
By 4 AM it was over 4 times even with a discount
You have to work later on a Sat as the clubs come out at 3 AM
Around here folk start to head home in a trickle from midnight and builds up to a mad rush from 1 AM
It would have been even better but half the Borders are in Wales for the rugby

I dinna work pasted midnight but still come out with 4 times as much as Doom

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He's the slave of all slaves who serves none but himself.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

Alba Gu Bràth

I only work 06.30am-09.30am and 16.00-18.30 mon-friday and 07.00-13.00 saturdays

ive got this week off, April off and 9 weeks come july


stop moaning

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Doom said

£50 = £13 after costs?

i assume that EVERYTHING from fuel to insurance, services, depreciation, base rent, HP charges, road tax, etc,tc?

well i hope so

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Correct, I basically cost the car at an average of around £35 - £40 per shift including fuel, higher when iut was busy of course to make room for the extra fuel.

I notice a few of you are doing ok and I'm pleased for you, but I'm faced with lots of nationalities that work from 9am to 5am 7 days a week, if they aren't out the car is with a cousin driving, if a rank is seen to be busy they ring each other and swamp it, I'm effectively in the same boat the corner shop and post office was a few years ago, it's being squashed down to drive the likes of me out so full control can be taken later, rank by rank they've taken them over and on some ranks they actually give you the f off look if you go on them, there's a lot to learn and you only really learn it by experience.

Had a guy who used to drink in my old local ten years back, he was an east ender and didn't really want to speak to me because at the time I stood up for foreigners, but I have to say, everything he said to me why he didn't like them nor my outlook about it has come 100% true, so be warned if you get an influx, your earning potential will die within a couple of years once they get their foot under the table.

wasnt enoch powell was it?



I watched "border control UK" yesterday, illegal immigrants are GIVEN £35 a week IF they report to an office weekly, why not just ship em back?

no, ill be shot
no, ill be tortured
no, i have no passport

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

If this is how you feel perhaps it is time you looked to find other uses for your vehicle and not just taxi driving

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