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Good article but - stories like this only enhance the fear that especially women have of Taxis's (just read a couple of this months women's mags carrying headline stories of unlicenced cabbie rapes etc; to quote one there are 7500 assaults on women per year by "unlicenced cabbies" - if the are unlicenced them why call them cabbies? They are low life posing as the professionals that we are!) I have written a reply directly to the magazine and if anything comes of it you will be the first to know!
LO's are able to stipulate a checkable history of certain period of time - ten years seems to be the norm; thats work, Police etc. This is just a scare mongering headline grabber.
I would point at that I am not racist at all; I can't be - my parents are imigrants and I was brought up in this Country and respect the laws etc that go with that. I have heard the stories of my parents trying to find accomodation, work etc and how they ever settled here I will never know! Racism isn't just black and white its far deeper than that........
In our daily work we come accross all sorts of senarious and if I were to turn up at a booking and the person was to say "I requested someone who respected the *whatever religion*" I would try to oblige of call for another driver. Being female and living in a mixed race community I try to oblige - ie. I always wear trousers, long sleeves and tops that can be adjusted to cover my neck etc if needed. In the ideal world I shouldn't have to do this but this is the times that we live in and we have to respect each person as we find them.
To put this in perspective - I am white and my youngest child has physical disabilities - if you refuse to pick him up I can have you prosecuted..................
For as long as every cabbie out there is Licenced who gives a [edited by admin] what their creed, race or colour?
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