Taxi Driver Online

I have 3 stories, perhaps stories 1 and 3 explain story 2.

1. Last saturday night, my teenage son up town at an 18th birthday party and the worse for wear and lost, flags a taxi in Fairmilehead and asks how much to musselburgh?  £40 is quoted, yes £40. son does not have £40 and getting very worried calls home and I duly pick him up. I did not want to post this, airing dirty washing in public, but story 2 and 3 have p*ssed me off no end and I have decided to post.

2.  coming down willowbrae road towards jocks lodge this morning. I am in outside lane level with a private car, and behind a bus, both in the greenway. As the traffic on the inside approach a parked car, I flash the bus to let it out but not the car, since I was level or slightly in front of it. the car behind me duly lets out the private car who then deliberately cuts in front of me at the lights, almost making contact. (He would have if I had not moved towards the kerb). he then proceeds to level a volley of abuse at me, of such severity, that I just did not understand what the problem was, surely not the incident immediately prior to his outburst, it had to be more than that?

3. I post these stories now, because my son's friend has just related what happened to him last saturday. Youngsters not accustomed to being up town did  the sensible thing and went to waverley bridge to get a taxi. They were charged £50 fixed fare to go to wallyford via musselburgh. When the parents found out, they went bananas, one of the boys had thought the fare was excessive and had duly noted the cab 's license number. To cut a long story short, comcabs reimbursed the £50 and said the driver would be disciplined. (all the other youngsters present related similar stories that had happened to them or their relatives) 

I would like to know what "disciplinary measures " were taken against the comcab driver.
I also wonder if stories 1 and 3 reflect the attitude of the bloke in story 2.

The taxi driver dictates professional what, exactly?

Skull

The term professional isn't due to the level of accomplishment or qualification

When the term professional is used, it's to describe how you make your living or PROFESSION!

Like a professional gambler doesn't have qualifications but has his living made from gambling

If someone can make a living collecting rusty old baked bean tins then they're a professional baked bean tin collector

So, our profession is taxi driving which makes us professional drivers

Skull... I'll give you one thing.. you're definitely a professional pain in the a**.

What's wrong Mr. T, don't you what to discuss screwing the worth out of people? It's not like you and Wayne (Uncle Tom) Casey haven't been doing it for years. Oh now I remember you don't like being described as Uncle Tom's, do you, a little too close to home for your “members” .

Once again, I am interested in how you see yourselves as professionals?

And who, exactly, cares what the great Skull is interested in? Us mere mortals just try to earn a crust and live a life - unlike Skull who seems to be perpetually at war or having a pop at those he has not the wit to understand.

Life is hard so Skull why not get a job or a life even and leave the taxi game to those who CAN make a living from it.

btw since you seem to have acquired a liking for Plato, perhaps in your dealings with the cab inspector, you should have remembered another of Plato's well-known quotes "I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

Or was it another case of "Skull knows better?"

“Life is hard so Skull why not get a job or a life even and leave the taxi game to those who CAN make a living from it”.

As a taxi driver Swannee has no dignity, he is happy to be denied his fundamental rights and has very little or no self-worth to speak of.

Swannee feels ashamed and more than a little embarrassed but is so inured by the system believes that everyone should be just like him. To such an extent, he is prepared to defend his servitude against anyone who would point it out.

“we don't want dignity, who needs rights, and we've always had the council to tell us what we are worth”

This is Swannee's World and yet. I lack “the wit to understand”.

I understand only too well Swannee, and to me, what you accept is unacceptable.

Oh and btw, you've taken Plato's quote out of context.

That's only your opinion



Once again that's only your opinion, you weren't there so you don't know for sure

"My father adored me and my ex treated me like a princess in public, but, he had a drink problem in so far as his jealously of my brother would manifest itself when he had drink and I was the person around at the time. It had an effect then but not anymore so whatever you think you're achieving by continuely reminding me of this is anybodies guess"

I have always supported the professional taxi-driver/ owner...... and have always told them to place a value on themselves...... but then.... we have the fly-by-nights... the people that just drive taxis..... that eventually get thrown out of the trade.... the worthless useless noisy minority..... I don't class them as taxi drivers.... I class them as the people that steal money from the professionals pocket .... and the rip off merchants that hold the general public to ransom and give the professional hackney driver a bad name that destroyers the Return work for the professional trade.... have a nice day....