Taxi Driver Online

Writer’s block I take it

thats jim alright

You fail to understand that you can't win or lose until the fat lady has sung.

Now I suggest that you reflect on the battles of the First World War. Try to grasp the concept of war of attrition.

Then try to understand that right always wins out in the end. That's why the greed and self interest of the trade can't be allowed to prevail. Or we will always have wee lassies being assaulted raped or even murdered, just because they can't hail a cab to get home.

It's only a matter of time before this becomes politically as well as morally indefensible.

BTW Those fannies on the cesspit appear to have not understood that my reference to cabbies being stupid was a question?

But then, they're not the first.

"Jim Taylor, secretary of taxi trade lobby group CABforce, today said there was no need to "tinker" with the current set-up.

He said: "Taxis are readily available in Edinburgh about 95 per cent of the time so we do not believe there is an unmet demand.

"In Edinburgh, we have about as many taxis per head of population as London, where there are no restrictions at the moment."

CABforce also believes that easing the rules would result in hackneys catering for the disabled being replaced with "lowest-common denominator vehicles" such as saloon cars.

Mr Taylor added: "The quality and integrity of the trade will simply diminish."

Bristol deregulated its taxi fleet in 1997 but reintroduced restrictions last year.

The number of hackney cabs jumped from 273 to about 650 during the period, prompting claims that drivers were being forced to work almost around the clock and even overcharge passengers to make ends meet "

You gotta laugh !!

Edinburgh de-restricted in the early nineties and put the cap back on a few years later. It will happen again. I believe a few guys took their own lives because they hawked the family silver to buy in, just at the wrong time.

A bit like Dublin you might say . . . .


So Bristol have introduced a new cap. Would you care to explain the significance of your statement?

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Three quarters of the local authorities in the UK do not operate restrictions. So they are all wrong and Edinburgh is right?

Aberdeen and West Lothian have recently de-limited. So, they are wrong and Edinburgh is right?

The OFT recommends de-limitation.

Consumer groups recommend de-limitation.

The shortage of cabs leads people to take risks of getting into other vehicles. Shouldn't the council be doing everything possible to protect the public? Isn't that what councils are supposed to do?

How many assaults = de-limitation?

Or will it take a death?

Limitation is political. Whatever the so-called "representatives" think they're achieving in protecting owners' interests, they are just bit part players.



BTW Trying to "defeat" Jasbar and the Skull will have NO influence on what happens here. Expending huge effort and wasting vast sums of money is futile.

But keep doing it anyway. The victory will just be so much the greater for it.

And, if companies go to the wall as well as individuals ....

Que Sera Sera.

Ahhhh Jim, Edinburgh council knows best, or didn't you know ????

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

It's not that they know. Just that they think ty do.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Three types of ppl drive cabs


1 - The born cabby, he can't wait to get to the wheel and stays there until his cab is traded for a lay down and won't move model in wood.

2 - The I like to drive for my living and meet ppl type, this one does the job through choice until they tire of it and find something else to do.

3 - The guy without any papers to say he can do anything else, he isn't dumb but can't get a job doing anything else that pays enough.


I know when I started I thought I was reasonably smart, but what I had no idea about was the ways of the world, the job has taught me that, ppl I thought to be ok turned out to be complete aholes, ppl I looked down on showed me they had real value and became assets to know, stepping out of the 9-5 bubble was the real educator for me, the ability to question the accepted right, and change the way I see things as an individual as opposed to being a sheeple, finding out all those *hardmen* were living on bully reputation and no longer any worry to me, prime example was a big lump who terrorised ppl, gave me the old *me and you are gonna have a meet* routine over a fare I'd done with him a few days earlier, should've seen his face when I knocked his door and asked *waddayawant* oh oh oh, I only wanted a chat was his answer, not bad for a guy who'd threatened my 50+ yr old mate on the desk a few weeks before in the office, so next time anyone wishes to label us cabbies as stupid,dumb etc, consider this, if you want your car fixed, your computer fixed, major decorating of the house i.e pastering,kitchen,bathroom fitting, and above all else.....LOVING , just remember I'm a cabby and I can do all of those things.

Aye, but do you have the wit to understand what's wrong with the trade and the balls to do something about it?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Does anyone?

Other than me of course.

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IDFIMH

Personally I don't like being looked down on by ppl with 40% knowledge of what I know, ok I ain't gonna work for NASA or run for PM, yet! but I know I'm well smarter than the average Joey that earns 40k+ pa, he might have pieces of paper, but stick us both on a desert island and I can say 100% 90% of them would have no shelter or food and die before me, it comes down to whose who, wannabe Ray Mears or Tony Blair? easy innit.

Neither do I but people think my t*ts can talk

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

You are a flirt, unless I get pics I won't agree to marry you and be faithful to you on Mondays.