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| Author: | Taxis [ Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Taxi Driving Test |
What do you think about drivers taking the test ( Not the one in the game ) the real DSA test ? |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taxi Driving Test |
Taxis wrote: What do you think about drivers taking the test ( Not the one in the game ) the real DSA test ?
A great idea. If we are going to be deemed a professional outfit, then we had best do something to back that up. Other than the Limo mob is there any other trade that has no training for the job we do? 
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| Author: | Taxis [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:50 pm ] |
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I have booked up for the DSA Taxi Test. Works out a pricey business with the pre-test training / lessons. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:23 am ] |
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Taxis wrote: I have booked up for the DSA Taxi Test.
Works out a pricey business with the pre-test training / lessons. Indeed it is a pricey business, and I have no doubt that price keeps many out of the trade. 
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| Author: | Bart [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:47 pm ] |
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There is no point to this test other than as a money making exersise. Clearly anyone taking this test already knows how to drive, but has to learn to pass a test again, not the same thing at all. |
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| Author: | Taxis [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:21 pm ] |
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Apart from anything else, will it not assist in raising the standards within our trade. |
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| Author: | Bart [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:35 pm ] |
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Taxis wrote: Apart from anything else, will it not assist in raising the standards within our trade.
Steve I don't see how it will do that I took the taxi test in 2005 and in no way did it make me a better driver, just had to learn some pointless rituals to pass the test for example: I remember on a lesson I was at a T junction waiting to turn right, there was a long stream of cars coming from the right so I was looking right waiting for a gap, the instructor said that I need to also occasionally look left while waiting for the gap, I said there is no point in checking the traffic coming from the left UNTIL I see a gap on the right, at which point I would check left, the instructor said I would fail if I did that on a test. I now drive the way I always have done (safely) This test does not in any way make the roads safer, all the lessons in the world are no substitute for driving experience. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:04 pm ] |
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Bart wrote: Clearly anyone taking this test already knows how to drive,
Then one has to wonder why so many fail.
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| Author: | MR T [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:03 pm ] |
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Sussex wrote: Bart wrote: Clearly anyone taking this test already knows how to drive, Then one has to wonder why so many fail. Don't be stupid , if they fail you you have to pay Again, and when it becomes compulsory..... Happy Days....... 
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:21 pm ] |
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MR T wrote: Don't be stupid , if they fail you you have to pay Again, and when it becomes compulsory..... Happy Days.......
I wouldn't fail, cos I'm in the Jimbo gang of good boys.
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| Author: | meltingsmoke [ Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:07 am ] |
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in my neck of woods new drivers and the ones who's got 7 points on their driving licence must take the test but it did started out with 4 points on their driving licence watch out for those speed cams 
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| Author: | Tom Thumb [ Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:53 pm ] |
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You failed? Well surely if the test has any merits then you should be suspended immediately and off the road becausethe test you support says you are not capable!!!! So protect your punters by taking your licence back to the council today. Our local council is proposing that any driver who they receives complaints about should be sent to pass the test. Currently to get a licence down our way you have to wait 4-6 weeks for a CRB. Our doctors waiting for medicals is 4-5 weeks and a DSA taxi test is 7 weeks. The last thing we need is another bureacrat getting in the way and making his wedge from repeating something we have already done. A driving test is test your ability to drive a car on the road, why enforce another test apart from setting barriers to entry. |
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| Author: | Tom Thumb [ Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:04 pm ] |
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Just so you all understand the posts removed by Taxis. He supported the introduction of DSA test in his area and decided to take it in advance. He failed so as you can see from my post above it is only right that he surrenders his licence until he passes. |
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| Author: | TDO [ Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:06 pm ] |
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Taxis wrote: Removed by Taxis Will remove all posts I have made in due course Oh no you won't  You put them into the public domain, so in the public domain they'll stay. Quote: Unless admin will be good enough to delete all posts and remove all my details from your database. So you think we're going to spend ages looking for your hundred-odd posts posts to delete them? ](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall") Quote: And of course remove my membership
His membership has been deactivated. |
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| Author: | jimbo [ Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:41 pm ] |
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Tom Thumb wrote: Just so you all understand the posts removed by Taxis.
He supported the introduction of DSA test in his area and decided to take it in advance. He failed so as you can see from my post above it is only right that he surrenders his licence until he passes. Hoisted by his own petard, in more ways than one.
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