Tigger wrote:
I can see this from both sides and what really gets me is under current legislation (and please correct me if I'm operating ileagally) I can drive 12 hours in my Taxi - swop into a 56 seater coach and work a further 8 hours, drop back into the cab for 12 hours and then drive the coach home for 4 hours! Yes its not right and NO I don't do it - but it is legal!
It wouldn't surprise me if you were right there Tigger.
Read recently of a driver in Ireland doing 36 hours straight.
And picked up the following whilst browsing:
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Now, in Singapore, our friendly taxi drivers are renowned for working 14 hour shifts, seven days a week and drinking kopi-o until they jitter so much, they bounce off their seat... but their Japanese counterparts cannot be beaten!
This from a guide to taking a taxi in Fukuoka:
"Taxi drivers work 24 hour shifts. If your driver appears to be sleeping it is considered polite not to awaken him until you have reached your destination."
Link here:
http://kyushu.com/fukuoka/getting_aroun ... 0,,x.shtml[/url]
And that's before we get on to the antics of some of the Chinese taxi drivers.
(kopi-o is coffee with no milk or sugar apparently.)
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