Taxi Driver Online

they are called bookings which are a contract to provide service so yes I do have to turn up

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

You are not compelled to accept bookings. Just say no. You’ll find it quite liberating. No one ever said on their deathbed, I wish I’d spent more time at the office. Or maybe you’re loving it?

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Former taxi driver

The point I'm trying to make is that if you don't answer the phone because you are knackered, or resting, is that the punters won't be stranded, they have other options.

For one or two days a year let them use the other options or prebook in good time.

No good working like c*** every day of the year.

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IDFIMH

the thing was that these were all pre booked days or weeks ago in the end I persuaded him to come back out

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

I wonder when “pre” became a thing.

For instance, my hairdresser asked me this morning if I had any holidays planned. I told her that I had booked a holiday in Mauritius for May next year. How lovely, says she, but don’t you surely mean pre booked? No I don’t I said, I haven’t previously booked it, I booked it today, at the travel agent’s next door.

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Former taxi driver

The fact that this is the two-thousandth post on the 'Gripe of the Day' thread.

Who would have believed that of a taxi/PH topic?

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IDFIMH

Operator's pretending to be honest and straight all the time they are giving work out via the back door.

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IDFIMH

my back door is my business thanks

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

Another thick customer.

She was complaining about the big wheel/observation wheel that was put up in the city center over Xmas.

Apparently it was ten pounds a time and all you got for that was two and a half turns.

I ask her again how many times it went around and she repeated two and a half.

I then asked her if she got out at the top then.

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IDFIMH

All of a sudden everything is a ‘hack’.

What happened to tips and hints?

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IDFIMH

I seem to see plenty of hints and tips online maybe that's what they have become but I suppose the word Hack makes it sound a bit more exciting and borderline legal for people who drive a Jag

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-60081971

absolute chaos all morning

and in the same spot 3 killed last sunday !!! after a pillock drove south on northbound carriageway killing himself and 2 others in the process

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

Customers reeking of weed when they get into the car.

On their way to work FFS.

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IDFIMH

when you are about to pass parked cars on the opposite side and someone pulls out of a side turn and then overtakes !!

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

Operators not knowing the rules.

Operators asking drivers to act against the rules.

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IDFIMH