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GBC
 Post subject: TAXI
PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:05 am 
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This weeks edition of Londons finest Licensed Taxi trade paper.

Good headline this week. :wink:


http://www.ltda.co.uk/taxi/issue_113/pg01.htm
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:06 am 
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greenbadgecabby wrote:
http://www.ltda.co.uk/taxi/issue_113/pg01.htm

Can't understand why they didn't get it right by saying exactly what he is/was i.e. A bogus 'Taxi Driver'.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:02 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
greenbadgecabby wrote:
http://www.ltda.co.uk/taxi/issue_113/pg01.htm

Can't understand why they didn't get it right by saying exactly what he is/was i.e. A bogus 'Taxi Driver'.


Simple, in London Taxi drivers drive Taxis, do the knowledge, and once in every two decades someone may commit a crime and get in the news.

The other side are Minicabs, drive cars, and . . . you know the rest. :roll:
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I think it's more of a sad reflection on the London cab trade.

The bloke is more of a bogus cab driver than a bogus minicab driver (if it's possible to be a bogus of something that doesn't exist), but telling the truth on the front page of 'Taxi' mag is alas a rare event. :sad:

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A tad sad when the local press know a little bit more about the cab trade than the trade version.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/el ... 4c723b.lpf

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So how precisely would an objective person know whether a bogus driver is can be best described as taxi or PH/minicab?

I'm surprised that GBC concludes the latter, since he's always accusing them of shouting 'taxee, taxee'! :lol:

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Sussex wrote:
A tad sad when the local press know a little bit more about the cab trade than the trade version.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/el ... 4c723b.lpf


Don't think so. Must have been a bogus PH driver, doing 110mph?

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Well I seem to recall that you once claimed that you had NEVER broken the speed limit jimbo, but I know plenty of taxi drivers who do. And one or two of them have bragged to me about doing the ton on 60mph roads.

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TDO wrote:
Well I seem to recall that you once claimed that you had NEVER broken the speed limit jimbo, but I know plenty of taxi drivers who do. And one or two of them have bragged to me about doing the ton on 60mph roads.


Not possible. (in a metrocab.) Why don't I speed? with a decent fare scale, there's no need.

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Sussex wrote:
I think it's more of a sad reflection on the London cab trade.

The bloke is more of a bogus cab driver than a bogus minicab driver (if it's possible to be a bogus of something that doesn't exist), but telling the truth on the front page of 'Taxi' mag is alas a rare event. :sad:



What was it Claude used to say? :wink:
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jimbo wrote:
TDO wrote:
Well I seem to recall that you once claimed that you had NEVER broken the speed limit jimbo, but I know plenty of taxi drivers who do. And one or two of them have bragged to me about doing the ton on 60mph roads.


Not possible. (in a metrocab.) Why don't I speed? with a decent fare scale, there's no need.


Hear Hear.

I'm never in a hurry, either with a fare on board or in between jobs.

No base or address to rush back to in case someone else takes the work.

Nice. :D

Thats why its a tough being part of the worlds best. :wink:
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:12 pm 
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'Taxi' is a comic written by comedians.

Read by idiots. :wink:

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Ollie wrote:
'Taxi' is a comic written by comedians.

Read by idiots. :wink:

Ollie



We're all aware you read it Ollie, you would have nothing else to post otherwise.

Hows the rent this week? :lol:
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I confess. I nearly got up to 70mph in my Metrocab once. With the wind behind me, down hill, on the M11. :roll:

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