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... but is there anyone out there brave enough for Taylor to drive for them?



It would appear that a £30 heater valve - the customers were complaining about being unable to turn off the heat,- was too much for the erstwhile boss, who complained that with putting the car through its test he hadn't time to get out to work to earn.

Except when I picked the car up last saturday there was just £35 on the meter.

The guy didn't ever want to work. He wanted the illusion of being a taxi boss but couldn't graft.

So the 11 grand I paid him didn't merit replacing the heater valve that the customers deserved for the sheckels they're paying.

This car has just gone through its test. It appears that our hapless cab inspector's team couldn't spot this. A moron looking at the encrusted valve in the engine compartment would wonder. But not Frank's lads. Of course, we've already questioned Frank's powers of deduction. Seems his malaise has filtered down to his boys. And it wouldn't be hard to find on a 15 year old cab. Why do we allow 15 year old cabs in the fleet anyway? If you can't aford to invest in a decent cab, why do you have a licence when those who don't wouldn't touch a bucket like this?

So Taylor doesn't have a drive.

(Cue universal rejoicing and smugness on behalf of all the taxi "businessmen" drunk with the illusion.)

I think I'll just toddle off to North Berwick, compete with the Skull's new venture, drive him out of business and back into the bosom of those who are beneath him 9in the taxi trade. I can't think of a single reason why he should be allowed to enjoy his life when there's real grief to be enjoyed here.

Or I could just become Toots' lesbian lover. No; we all know don't we ...



Or Captain Cab's linguistic guru. If his meanderings in the rag improve you'll all know he's taken my offer up but just isn't cracking on.


Or Dougie's psychotherapist? No, I don't think even I'm ready for such a challenge.

Or bite swannee's bum. Perhaps not.

Or I could just chill.

I think I'll just ....

BTW I'd hate to have a feckwit for a son.

I'm going to agree with you on one thing here, why do operators and owners refuse to spend anything on their motors when the money is coming in on a regular basis?

If the customers are complaining about the heat in the cab "get something done about it". At the end of the day the customers pay their wages.

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

The thing is that this paragon of business illusion decided to have his spat with me just as we move into the busiest period of the year. I've been paying him more rental that I've earned for myself for months now, and get dumped when I can begin to make some of it back.

And this fine upstanding operator also had his spat when he knows my old mother is lying in intensive care in the Western general desperately fighting for her life against pneumonia.

That's the quality of guys who operate taxis. That's the power they have over you.

And that's why it is fundamentally immoral for councils to refuse taxi drivers the right to determine their own future.

But I guess this is what we've come to in Salmond's Scotland.

I forgot to add that this wonderful person threatened to call the police to say I'd stolen his taxi if I didn't return it immediately.

That's shit of the highest order. Have you got yourself a drive sorted out?

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

I don't really expect to.

As public enemy number 1, because I've had the temerity to campaign for the taxi trade to operate just like every other commercial sector, I believe I'm frozen out.

So, I'm qualified to be a taxi driver but, because of the cartel operating in the trade, I'm not allowed to work as one.

That's the quality of enterprise in 21st Century Scotland.

This is what the b0dybags coming back from Blair's wars are protecting.

Tell me to feckoff if you like but what is the rental price for a weekly drive for nights and days?

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

I thought you won your plate along with skull, and the others

£250 per week. I haven't earned that for myself for months.

And I had nothing to do with this. All the griefmongers fail to realise that the state the trade is in is nothing to do with me. I'm not responsible. They've done this all by themselves.

What I've always campaigned for is to give drivers a fair shake. I always knew that at some point I wouldn't be given a fair shake.

How is it that your country allows you to be qualified to do a job, and then tells you that unless you are a happy slave it won't let you?

Here's a cracker that I've just remembered. Might as well get it off my chest.

The taxi went on fire in Warrender Park Road in the middle of the coldest spell of weather in my memory.

I put the fire out and called the owner. Did he come out to assist? No. He was pi ss ed already.

Did I sit for 3 hours freezing my borlocks off waiting for the AA?

Yes, until I could wait no longer. My fingers were numb with the cold. So I took a taxi, at my own expense to pick up my car.

Because we didn't know when the AA would arrive, it was the busiest time ever for them, I took owner Smith back to Warrender Park Road to secure the vehicle in the best possible position. I then drove him back home, before going home myself. All of this took around 5 hours. I don't think he even thanked me for my effort.

I was enjoying a restorative whisky at home when the AA finally called to say they were at the vehicle.

As I couldn't drive, my wife got out of her bed to drive me back to the taxi. She followed us down to Portobello to the changeover where Smith took charge of his taxi again, and she then drove me back home.

Would any other driver, or his wife, have done this?

And this is the owner who dumped me. at the worst possible time

Says it all really.

BTW My wife is furious at what he's done. But I guess you knew that anyway.

Stephen Smith is a scumbag. Anyone drives for him, he knows what to expect. A banger always breaking down, lost shifts and a lazy boss who's feeding off you.

Some people eh, they put out a perfectly good fire and then complain about the cold.

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Grandad,

Apply to CRT, City Cabs and ComCab for a drive and then put an advert in the Evening News. And when all that fails to secure a drive, apply to the council under special circumstance. Keep a detailed record of all the above and how much you are losing as a consequence of being unemployed.

Oh and get yourself a lawyer on legal aid to fight your case. No reasonable council would deny you a plate, giving that you are a political opponent to both the council and the vested interests they support.

I don't believe the council would have a leg to stand on, and what have you got to lose?

Just drive ph til you sort it out and before you bite my head off it's only a suggestion

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