Taxi Driver Online

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?

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

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A sound driver, who drives a sound car, with good local knowledge, who respects his punters and doesn't rip them off.

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IDFIMH

Like the dodo... we are now extinct

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

You may be getting on but you're not extinct yet

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AM I not ..Oh..I thought I was..

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

That'll be the bad circulation Can't feel all your body moving

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There are taxi drivers and then there's people who drive taxis.

there is a difference.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I could get myself into a great deal of trouble if I said what I thought... in reply

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Chicken

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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.

Expand?

Reliable, clean, looks good.......?

Has technology reduced this necessity at all?

Define respect?

How is this done (usually)?

Comfortable and spacious



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



Going the long way around or simply over charging

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So bigger is better?

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

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

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



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



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

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

There are Taxi drivers and Screw Drivers.