Taxi Driver Online

Absolutely gospel GBC. Still he appreciates exactly how good our service is now.

London, where muggers drive round the city all night in black wagons with orange lights on top.

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A member of the Hire or Reward Industry

By your arrogance, it's obvious you've been caught out. Oh dear . . .

Dream about me tonight.

I am very arrogant GBC, my wife tells me all the time. Or she asks her solicitor too.

The customer was asking me to pay the bill until he read the email booking the car.

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A member of the Hire or Reward Industry

i hope you aint calling us all mugs mush

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FORUMS ARE A GOOD PLACE TO LET OFF STEAM ! DONT TAKE LIFE TO SERIOUSLY ..

anyway i got to go and do a few hours work and i should earn a grand or two

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FORUMS ARE A GOOD PLACE TO LET OFF STEAM ! DONT TAKE LIFE TO SERIOUSLY ..

Still not earning as much as shell.

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Grandad,

What black cabs charge is nothing to do with touts, touts normally charge MORE than black cabs.
Tom Thumb, what you wrote does not quite work out,
1, 80 minutes there, and 80 minutes back, =160minutes.
2, fuel cost has to come out of that, total jorney of 130 miles at 35mpg=3.7 gallons of diesel, £15approx.
3, the standing cost of owning the cab also has to come out of the fare.
I reckon he was earning about £50 net per hour.
But remember this, london taxi's are LONDON taxi's, and he was working nights.

I got a cab from my nans in christchurch to the local barber shop, journey of about 700 yards(was raining, could'nt be bothered to walk), fare was £2.20 for a job that took about 1 minute, useing that he's earning £132 per hour!.(I think it was £2.20, can't remember the exact amout, but if it was £1.50, thats still £90 per hour).

It's all revelant.

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stressed controller!!!

Assuming he was just outside waiting solely for your call!

And the next job was picking up where he dropped you and he didn't have to wait between jobs.

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Grandad,

You're right to point out that Tom Thumb was quoting gross figures, but your comparison with the Chirstchurch driver is IRRELEVANT because you don't know the context and while £200 profit for less than three hours is significant in anyone's book (ie what London driver made) £2.20 could amount to nothing depending on the context.

For example, I heard of a local driver who waited six hours for a four pound job the other day - which by your analysis would probably amount to a loss.

F*** me, let's have a whip round for him.

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IDFIMH

You keep your personal fetishes to your self.

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Grandad,

I think what happened is something along these lines.....

Driver is looking for one on the way home, punter flags him down and is desperate to get home, driver qutes silly fare to get rid of punter, and punter says YES.
I cannot see a 65 mile jorney on rate 3 going £250. GBC, what do you reckon.
If you don't want to use christchurch driver in comparision then you must accept that the london driver does not earn this every job.

I would imagine theres more to this story than we are being told.

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stressed controller!!!

My lad paid 35.20 from o2 arena to Baker St tube stn on tarrif 3, his mate had another cab same time same destination and it was 40.00 how far is that journey GBC

About 9.5-10 miles

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Grandad,