Taxi Driver Online

I know of a driver who has an exemption from the council, Bad back, Shoulder, whatever, but when Fraser Eagle ask him to cover rail stations purely for Wheelchair work, It's a miracle, he can do that. Taxi drivers are a bunch of lazy [edited by admin], don't want to help anyone, just gimme the money and [edited by admin] off (present company excepted) so with a wheelchair user, it's too much trouble, unless it's out of town.

I wish you were wrong jimbo, but I got to agree

regards

Captain cab

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

Remember the lads who have looked after the wheelchair fraternity for years,the salt of the earth.
And do you know,they are still doing this,no matter how many new wavs come on(majority will not do the work),and still happy to look after the customer.
It is really up to your own frame of mind,do you want to do the job properly or not.
Some of the newer lads do not,then it is up to the council to pull the plates of the back of the Wav vehicle.

If the person does have a bad back though then he is protected under the same legislation that forced the inclusion on WAVs in the first place.

So the council impliment the DDA then a driver takes advantage of the DDA by claiming a disability which means he cannot have his licensed revoked as it would be done so because of his disability which they would class as discrimination.

The law is an ass.

B. Lucky

Wheelchair Issues? TX1 TX2 Metro Cab vehicles

Have a wee look

http://comcabhenryglasgow.blogspot.com

Wheelchair Issues? TX1 TX2 Metro Cab vehicles

Have a wee look

http://comcabhenryglasgow.blogspot.com

As Angel correctly stated...

"The Law is an ass" and a "whole" one at that.

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Hi..sussex..love..mr T....

Heres an interesting case which happened in Manchester a few weeks ago at Victoria station Taxi rank. I don't think we have heard the last of this but have the two Taxi drivers involved shot themselves in the foot by giving perhaps dubious reasons as to why they couldn't take the passenger?

Would it have been more reasonable to suggest to the extremely large passenger that they couldn't take him on the grounds of health and safety and personal liability?

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/n ... bbies.html

Regards

JD

if you read the comments left by readers the majority seem to be agreeing with the cabbies.

Cyril Smith lives on.

I suppose they were perhaps just trying to be diplomatic, and maybe didn't say quite what they meant.

Another thing is that it seems that quite often in such situations the passenger's perception of what was said differs somewhat from the driver's.

So the drivers may not have expressed themselves clearly, the passengers may have thougth they said something else, and by the time the press put their interpretation on it, the original message becomes a bit garbled.

Some interesting points in the comments page though, no wonder the DDA is taking so long to come through at the DDA.

As for Manchester drivers being 'a law unto themsleves'...really!!

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Taxi Driver Online
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That's one big mush.

Still it's nice to see that the T&G are helping out the lads.

Instead of belly aching the rep should have helped out the drivers by pushing the bloke up himself. And as for the comments that drivers shouldn't be working with a bad back, the rep is a tit and a big one at that.

Is this now T&G policy that workers should lift unsafe weights? And is it now T&G policy that anyone with an iffy back is no longer deemed 'fit and proper'?

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IDFIMH

That bloke needs a tail lift.
simple as that.

its not just the cabtrade who are in hot water over wheelchairs
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2005 ... 5998t0.asp
i dont know about the rest of the country but dundee cabbies were rushed through a course which lasted a couple of hours and cost a tenner, you were led through different areas showing you different situations the only
taxi related thing was showing you how to put a wheelchair in a minibus and strap them in, all the areas had one thing in common, more than one individual was present to assist, unlike the real world as i have learned since getting my wav