Taxi Driver Online

OK, I'll admit it. If I'd been working for a reasonable owner who believed that a puncture at 70 mph on a motorway, which the driver saved the car from being rapped into a barrier, was not the fault of the driver, then I would not be writing this. I would still be his serf.

Anyway, thinking about what I'm missing, here's just a few of the things I'm not.

Like:

Sitting for 2 hours at the airport in the forlorn hope of getting a job, to be dragged to Newbridge to take a numpty who thinks you're too expensivce to his billet in Ratho station.

Or sitting on the city rank for an hour and watching the number of cars in the zone rise, and fall, and rise, and fall, all the wondering why no work is coming your way.

Or getting a job from the Waverley to Russell road, that's priced at just £6, and which was priced before the road works require a significant detour, and the price which remained the same throughout the last tariff hike, and which the guy you're driving reckons the railway is paying over £9 for, and which the company dips into your pocket for an extra 10% to them.

Or getting a job for the railway from the back of the Waverley, sitting for 25 minutes, only to finally get through on the radio to be told that the customer is "now" waiting opposite the taxi rank in the station. A customer who was repeatedly asked by the guy who called for the car why he was still waiting, certain that's where the car should have been picking up in the first place. And knowing that when you raise the matter back at base you're gonna be pooh poohed and nothing done. It's the serf, not at fault, who takes the financial hit. After all, the poor wee staff dears at base are just "too busy".

Or being first car in a five car job for staff at a pub, to find that your reward for being first car is a £3 job from Princes Street east end to McDonald Road, while the cars following you are heading for Brunstfield and Morningside etc.

Or sitting for yonks to get a random job from a hotel located on a natural black taxi cruising route and you know the punter just aint gonna be there.

Or getting a job like Sheraton Lothian Road when the job really was Lothian Road at the Sheraton. You're sat at reception awaiting the phantom punter while she's lit off in a hack from the rank because you didn't turn up.

Or getting a job from Mood at 3pm, punter outside, along with 500 others, if at all. And calling the bogey to find you're at position 15 in the queue, no hope of getting through. So you crash the job to be allocated another job immediately. Good. Beep beep, and its another job from Mood. Another phantom punter.

Or getting a job from Pizza express anywhere or any other restaurant which has been closed for two hours and you know its not a real job, another bogey.

Or getting a job you know is a bogey, going to it and proving it, only to wonder where the next job off the zone was going and who got it?

Or getting a job from a pub toog in the Canongate, named because that's what it sounded like to the hapless call agent who didn't have the wit, or couldn't be bothered, to verify the name? (Anyone know which pub it is?)

The positive thing for we who don't want to be serfs is that the the solution is quite simple. Just don't be someone else's serf. If you can't own, don't drive for the serf master. Cos he aint got your interest at heart. It's his ten per cent that's all he's interested in.



I'm loving this Friday.

And tomorrow's Saturday. You won't believe what happens on a Saturday

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

And your knowledge of the airport & waiting times is what exactly?

When was the last time you was on the airport rank, operated by the black cabs (FTS) an not the PH side

Btw, I've been to airport 3 times since 20:00 tonight & had a £17.30 job "take the twenty", admittedly a £7.30 to norton house (take the £10) and a £20.80 "take £22" in last 2 an a half hours, not forgetting the fare out that way from Broughton to Maybury Marriott

As usual your speaking utter drivel. You carry on peddling your doom & gloom prophecies, I'll just carry on working!

And now airport to hillside crescent. Make that 4th job from airport in less than 2.5 hours

Well bully for you. Problem is, you're relying on us to trust you dimwit. The post must have stung you

But thanks for trying.

Mind and not post while you're driving tumshie?

Oh, and I can do it too. Take the thirty tumshie Shi tty Cabsniggr

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

So we have to take your word for it being gospel yet I'm making it up! Usual pish from you & I'm sure other airport users know the truth in this

And btw, I'm not typing & driving as the customer stopped at shell garage at maybury to pick up cigarettes!

S o you're an ipad junky.



Look you were stung. get used to it.

Then ask why you're so defensive. It's very curious?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Good use of the word cabni****, of course, some (like me) might say the phrase should be banished from tdo..... like t***, [edited by admin] , and [edited by admin] [edited by admin], but there you go.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I thing [edited by admin] should be banned

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http://wingsoverscotland.com/ http://www.newsnetscotland.com/

[edited by admin] A dude

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Nah, I don't think naughty words should be banned.

If they were then people might start taking Captain Cab seriously

Does banning anything make it less appropriate?

Rather than banning the word, shouldn't you be asking questions about the condition?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

What condition?

I thought everyone was in perfect health

Gotta admit though, Jasp has worded that one pretty well how it is with regard to what we pick up and how it thinks it should pay what it feels like,

I'll nay back the baron bit up though because by removing the baron the way Jasp wants them out opens another door of abuse.

Indeed, nicely articulated why I prefer vegetating on the ranks to pre-booked work