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Gents / ladies as a relative newcomer to the world of cab driving any tips and advice that you all could pass on ! My biggest problem is dealing with those who enter my place of work and feel that they can verbally abuse me with out myself being able to give back what i receive ! A few times now i have felt totally intimidated when your car is full of shall we say drunk blokes ! Hey im a big lad and more than capabill looking after myself but I know the law and if i lash out then i lose my right to work the streets. I'm looking at installing CCTV to act as some sort of deterant can anyone advise.

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Cheers for the link

Don't let drunk blokes in your car.

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Grandad,

Superscot, you will get better at dealing with them in time. I hear your pain though. You can push things quite far with these p ricks, just far enough to show if they want a joust (whether physical or mental they will get it)..........but of course you don't give them this joust. That is the perception you should give in my humble opinion. You don't need to work on this, it will come to you in time. You will look back on this and wonder who you have become. Night-shift taxi driving will change you. Scorsese obviously noticed this, and extrapolated it to the nth degree with an unstable individual.

I am certainly more galas than when I started. The trick is to, 'slum it with these t***s' and if a possible complaint is launched against you (although it never will) turn back to your usual professional self with your base company. Be a chameleon brother. One face for some, another for another. My base actually thinks I am quite 'posh'........how little do they know . It will get better. Give it time.

Cheers for the advice Fudbaws

What gets me is the public or some of them think they have the right to abuse us while we are only trying to provide a service to THEM ! Some i would really like to take outside and give them the hammering of there life but know that makes me as bad as them then

Have spoken to a few of the local drivers who also gave advice along the same lines We will venture on and hopefully the [edited by admin] are few and far between

Cheers

Whilst you may not actually be getting paid to be abused you will end up being abused while being paid..hey, it's just part of the Job as Pisshead knobbers think it's a wheeze.

Have to say things have improved as you rightfully said above ! Next bit whit about the t***s who get in and you arrive at the destination and hey presto nae money ! Hey only a fiver but a fiver owed to me to say the least i was displeased ! Is it a case of lump it and leave it ! Advice please

Glad to hear that things have improved. You'll find the abuse is like water off a ducks back.

Ah the old " I've got no money driver" Luckily this is few and far between but unless you can get their mobile phone as a promise they will then you're better turfing them out and putting it down to experience. Try ok no problem sir/madam we'll just take a trip to the local police station, sometimes it's miraculous how the money will appear!!

Don't lose heart superscot!!

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Just take them to police station dial 101 en route.
Oddly three times I've done that and they panicked and phoned the police ahead on each occasion.
Or return the goods ,take them back to where you picked them up,it shows them their pathetic plan didn't work, and you feel less taken for a nob .
Unfortunately we will all get stung tho,if you don't accept taking one on the chin on the rare occasion you will torture yourself being too cynical.
Nine out of ten that say they will have to get money out the house will come back with it.

Just a wee update still plodding away and basically stand nae nonsence anymore ....You were all right through time you learn to deal with the dick888ds ...still the odd scary moment now and again

It's a question of learning to be firm with them but,usually that comes only with experience.

just stop the car & throw them out . as for a cam i just bought a vacron twincam & only cost 50 quid ( off ebay), not that bothered about it just wanted it as a deterrent like you do, i will be hacking for the first time in about 6 years this weekend but my wife thinks its the wrong move for me as i am very volatile , stand by for posts from either jail or a hospital bed on monday

or just drag them out the car & batter the fookers