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Author:  I/O [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:50 am ]
Post subject:  What is a cabbie?
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Problem with these company guys is they've forgotten how to be cabbies.


This caught my attention elsewhere and is maybe fair, maybe not, I have no opinion on that but, the question begs, in todays world, what is a cabbie or perhaps more importantly, what makes a good cabbie?
Author:  toots [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:51 pm ]
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Well whatever it is there are them in the trade that will tell you it's not a PH driver they're just transport providers :wink:
Author:  Sussex [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What is a cabbie?
I/O wrote:
what makes a good cabbie?

A sound driver, who drives a sound car, with good local knowledge, who respects his punters and doesn't rip them off.
Author:  MR T [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:03 pm ]
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Like the dodo... we are now extinct :wink:
Author:  toots [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:19 pm ]
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MR T wrote:
Like the dodo... we are now extinct :wink:


You may be getting on but you're not extinct yet :wink: :lol: :lol:
Author:  MR T [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:46 pm ]
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toots wrote:
MR T wrote:
Like the dodo... we are now extinct :wink:


You may be getting on but you're not extinct yet :wink: :lol: :lol:
AM I not ..Oh..I thought I was.. :wink:
Author:  toots [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:50 pm ]
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MR T wrote:
toots wrote:
MR T wrote:
Like the dodo... we are now extinct :wink:


You may be getting on but you're not extinct yet :wink: :lol: :lol:
AM I not ..Oh..I thought I was.. :wink:


That'll be the bad circulation :shock: Can't feel all your body moving :wink: :lol:
Author:  captain cab [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:53 pm ]
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There are taxi drivers and then there's people who drive taxis.

there is a difference.

CC
Author:  MR T [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:54 pm ]
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toots wrote:
MR T wrote:
toots wrote:
MR T wrote:
Like the dodo... we are now extinct :wink:


You may be getting on but you're not extinct yet :wink: :lol: :lol:
AM I not ..Oh..I thought I was.. :wink:


That'll be the bad circulation :shock: Can't feel all your body moving :wink: :lol:
I could get myself into a great deal of trouble if I said what I thought... in reply :wink:
Author:  toots [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:00 pm ]
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MR T wrote:
toots wrote:
MR T wrote:
toots wrote:
MR T wrote:
Like the dodo... we are now extinct :wink:


You may be getting on but you're not extinct yet :wink: :lol: :lol:
AM I not ..Oh..I thought I was.. :wink:


That'll be the bad circulation :shock: Can't feel all your body moving :wink: :lol:
I could get myself into a great deal of trouble if I said what I thought... in reply :wink:


Chicken :lol: :lol:
Author:  I/O [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:36 pm ]
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captain cab wrote:
There are taxi drivers and then there's people who drive taxis. there is a difference. CC
Rightly or wrongly, that's what I'm trying to explore and thanks to the other posters also because one (if only one I can think of immediately) attribute which IMO is vitally important is personality.

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A sound driver
Expand?

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who drives a sound car
Reliable, clean, looks good.......?

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with good local knowledge
Has technology reduced this necessity at all?

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who respects his punters
Define respect?

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and doesn't rip them off.
How is this done (usually)?
Author:  toots [ Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:41 pm ]
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Reliable, clean, looks good.......?


Comfortable and spacious

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Has technology reduced this necessity at all?


No, not at all. If the technology fails you still need to know where you're going and how to get there

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How is this done (usually)?


Going the long way around or simply over charging
Author:  I/O [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:30 am ]
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toots wrote:
Comfortable and spacious
So bigger is better?

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No, not at all. If the technology fails you still need to know where you're going and how to get there
Therefore, as a booking company which provides the dispatchers to the cars, we have perhaps misspent by including a "Sat Nav" module in our new system? http://www.mtdata.com.au/default.asp?pa ... ch_Systems

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or simply over charging
How? By dodgy quotes, not running meters, how?
Author:  toots [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:34 pm ]
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So bigger is better?


Bigger what is better? Its an air of spaciousness and comfort is a must.

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Therefore, as a booking company which provides the dispatchers to the cars, we have perhaps misspent by including a "Sat Nav" module in our new system?


It's there to assist a driver it should not replace a drivers knowledge or need to know. Apart from which why would a company want to 'employ' somebody who couldn't even be bothered to learn where they are driving

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How? By dodgy quotes, not running meters, how?


Some would be over charging by quoting when going out of the area, we have that particular problem with the Liverpool taxis travelling 2 miles through a tunnel and charging £30. Not sure with the meter situation you'd have to ask somebody that uses a meter :wink:
Author:  Nigel [ Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:59 pm ]
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captain cab wrote:
There are taxi drivers and then there's people who drive taxis.

there is a difference.

CC


There are Taxi drivers and Screw Drivers.
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