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What do you think about drivers taking the test ( Not the one in the game ) the real DSA test ?

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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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IDFIMH

I have booked up for the DSA Taxi Test.
Works out a pricey business with the pre-test training / lessons.

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Indeed it is a pricey business, and I have no doubt that price keeps many out of the trade.

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IDFIMH

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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There's no excuse for animal abuse. If you ain't vegan you are an animal abuser.

Apart from anything else, will it not assist in raising the standards within our trade.

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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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There's no excuse for animal abuse. If you ain't vegan you are an animal abuser.

Then one has to wonder why so many fail.

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IDFIMH

Don't be stupid , if they fail you you have to pay Again, and when it becomes compulsory..... Happy Days.......

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I wouldn't fail, cos I'm in the Jimbo gang of good boys.

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IDFIMH

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

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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A member of the Hire or Reward Industry

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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A member of the Hire or Reward Industry

Oh no you won't

You put them into the public domain, so in the public domain they'll stay.



So you think we're going to spend ages looking for your hundred-odd posts posts to delete them?




His membership has been deactivated.

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Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

Hoisted by his own petard, in more ways than one.

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Former taxi driver