Taxi Driver Online

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

You're a strange chap wanabeeahack, what is it with you and wallowing in your own servility? Driving a taxi is sh*t and it's not going to get better anytime soon, yet not only is your glass half full, it's positively brimming over. So much so you don't believe you deserve better pay and working conditions.

It's "I'm a taxi/ph driver, and this is the way it should be, what do we want with working fewer hour's increased earnings, holiday pay, sick pay and pensions, etc."?

Me thinks you are about as crazy as a sh*thouse rat....

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

OK, find me a job then........bet you cant cos i couldnt

ill do 60 hours a week for the profit in my £700 till then thanks, cos hard work dont scare me

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So how is it, I've never met a wealthy taxi driver unless his wife is out working and on a big salary, has a pension from a previous employer or he's won or inherited some cash?

Twenty years ago, Electricians, Joiners, Plasterers, Plumbers, Bus drivers, Firemen, etc. They were all clambering over each other to drive a taxi, and now they are all back working in their respective trades. I even know guys that haven't bothered to renew their taxi licence the trade is so sh*t.

Oh and Super wannabeeahack, you do realise that I know when you are talking sh*t because I drove a taxi for over twenty years and watched the trade go steadily down the tubes?

Your "cos hard work don't scare me" just doesn't cut it. You are a dinosaur me auld chum, and you are living in a bygone era.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

fu...ing hell Skull... how do you want to force old cabbie to do something different even if there is more money and less hours? that`s fu...ing strange, it`s like trying to teach an old elefant to dance. struggling to earn decent money these days is not taxi drvers habits it`s global lack of money. don`t you think that this business as a service is not necessity? people don`t use taxis cos they can`t afford them... so we`re comming back to the point and start again...

You are correct, there is a serious lack of money and what is more, there's been a sea change in how people go about spending their hard-earned cash. Nevertheless, your trade has to take responsibility for doing nothing in the last twenty years, to improve their lot. They've run their industry into the ground. Oh and most of what has happened was predicted by yours truly.

Do you know, that when I first started driving taxis, I could make more money on a Saturday night, than most people could earn, in a week?

The taxi trade got to where it is now, for the most part, through apathy, greed and self-interest, and it was guys like wannabeeahack that allowed it to happen. You've only to read some of his posts to realise what I am saying is true. He's living in denial. And as was written before "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" Voltaire, knew what he was talking about...

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

When I first started, we didn't have meters it was a fixed rate, and everyone knew how much it cost to get home, now we have them and fare rises almost annually, less folk use the cabs.
I know what I would like to do with the meter

At one time in Edinburgh, you could run the meter to pick up the job.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

FFS Skull you could have been visiting Guss for a pint at the time 120 miles to pick up a £2.00 job

I remember walking four miles out from the city center on your average weekend before hailing a cab with its light on and if the guy didn't want to go in your direction, you were fuc*ed. Oh and a neighbour of mine had a taxi he drove two days a week, and that was it.

The money they earned in those days was the equivalent of a professional salary, if they worked the hours. Pensions, sick pay, holiday pay was all figured into the equation. A mate of mine told me he paid off a new taxi in nine months and ran it for 5-6 years before buying a new one.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Oh and taxis in those days, were the preserve of the middle and upper classes, none of the scheemies you get now. This was before even my time...

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Become a private hire operator then.

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Grandad,

Correct, when I started people who used us were workers, now it's people who are on the dole and getting benefits.

Yesterday someone rang for a Taxi to go to the food bank, £10 trip to get £40 worth of food.

So you don't want a yearly increase then??



It used to be the same round here, now it's pick up to drop.

erm, you may have to put it on to comply with your LA regs (within your LA) but nothing says you cant charge less

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