I note the following article:As if London didn't have enough traffic on its streets, the capital's cabbies have vowed to bring the city to a standstill in a protest against the taxi-booking phone app Uber.
London cabbies to offer EVEN WORSE service in protest against Uber
My instant reaction has been to install Uber on my phone. Anything at all which might get on the average taxi driver's tits is fine by me. I have never, not once, passed through the forecourt of Temple Meads station without being forced to listen to the massed cab drivers using their damnable horns for conversational purposes. Were I First Group's forecourt manager at Temple Meads I'd make a complaint to Bristol's cab licensing authority naming every bloody cab driver who ever sounded his damned horn in the precinct, there is never ever a single good reason for doing it.
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And I thought you was all for the working man. More taxis, cycles and buses would lessen the need for other cars.
Think they are shooting themselves in the foot, advertising it for free, why don't they use it? Or did I miss something?
Think they are shooting themselves in the foot, advertising it for free, why don't they use it? Or did I miss something?
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
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Yeah, the app BOOKS rides for them, wouldn't that make their lives easier?
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Bruv;1453604 wrote: And I thought you was all for the working man. More taxis, cycles and buses would lessen the need for other cars.
I agree entirely. I'd ban motorized private transport entirely within all city limits if I had the opportunity. I merely object to the use of horns by taxis (or any other cars, though other people do it far less) in circumstances other than those designated in the Highway Code. Bloody cab drivers use them to talk to each other as though the horn was a localized CB radio. They should lose their jobs for it.
I agree entirely. I'd ban motorized private transport entirely within all city limits if I had the opportunity. I merely object to the use of horns by taxis (or any other cars, though other people do it far less) in circumstances other than those designated in the Highway Code. Bloody cab drivers use them to talk to each other as though the horn was a localized CB radio. They should lose their jobs for it.
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Týr;1453620 wrote: Bloody cab drivers use them to talk to each other as though the horn was a localized CB radio. They should lose their jobs for it.
That would be bloody annoying, I grant you. Can you start a movement to make taxi horns only play small snippets of classical music? Or maybe make every taxi's horn a different musical note? That way, it would sound a little like a symphony maybe.
It's either that, or sneak around at night spraying insulating foam into the grills of their cabs.
That would be bloody annoying, I grant you. Can you start a movement to make taxi horns only play small snippets of classical music? Or maybe make every taxi's horn a different musical note? That way, it would sound a little like a symphony maybe.
It's either that, or sneak around at night spraying insulating foam into the grills of their cabs.
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Saint_;1453618 wrote: Yeah, the app BOOKS rides for them, wouldn't that make their lives easier?
English taxis have a competitor which is less regulated, the minicab. The minicab can't ply for hire, it can only be booked. The taxi can stop on demand in the street. The taxi drivers publicize scare stories of unregulated minicab drivers being fly-by-night shysters who take the long way round and charge extortionate unmetered fares. The idea that an App might make minicab drivers more respectable and their charges more checkable is scaring them. Sucks to them, that's what I reckon.
English taxis have a competitor which is less regulated, the minicab. The minicab can't ply for hire, it can only be booked. The taxi can stop on demand in the street. The taxi drivers publicize scare stories of unregulated minicab drivers being fly-by-night shysters who take the long way round and charge extortionate unmetered fares. The idea that an App might make minicab drivers more respectable and their charges more checkable is scaring them. Sucks to them, that's what I reckon.
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Týr;1453623 wrote: English taxis have a competitor which is less regulated, the minicab. The minicab can't ply for hire, it can only be booked. The taxi can stop on demand in the street. The taxi drivers publicize scare stories of unregulated minicab drivers being fly-by-night shysters who take the long way round and charge extortionate unmetered fares. The idea that an App might make minicab drivers more respectable and their charges more checkable is scaring them. Sucks to them, that's what I reckon.
I agree with you.
There Is scaremongering of the mini-cab trade to force the public to use Hackney licensed plated Taxi's.
When In fact the criteria Is exactly the same with exception to the actual plate on Hackney Taxi's which is purchased through councils to give the right to pick up unbooked In the street or as they call It ' Flipping'.
The plating test carried out by councils vehicle examiners Is approx ten times stricter than an MOT and done yearly. The drivers are screened by the Criminal Records Bureau yearly before a licence Is Issued ore re-Issued. Their license must be clearly secured to the outside of the car and clearly visable.
No min-cab can operate with out regulated council tariffs and meters ( not Including waiting time ). The council can at any time sieze a mini cab meter to check for tampering.
Booking a taxi with a mini cab or private hire company ensures the safety of the driver and the passenger. The radio controller will know exactly what time the pick was and ETA of destination ensuring the whereabouts of the driver Is known at all times.
I agree with you.
There Is scaremongering of the mini-cab trade to force the public to use Hackney licensed plated Taxi's.
When In fact the criteria Is exactly the same with exception to the actual plate on Hackney Taxi's which is purchased through councils to give the right to pick up unbooked In the street or as they call It ' Flipping'.
The plating test carried out by councils vehicle examiners Is approx ten times stricter than an MOT and done yearly. The drivers are screened by the Criminal Records Bureau yearly before a licence Is Issued ore re-Issued. Their license must be clearly secured to the outside of the car and clearly visable.
No min-cab can operate with out regulated council tariffs and meters ( not Including waiting time ). The council can at any time sieze a mini cab meter to check for tampering.
Booking a taxi with a mini cab or private hire company ensures the safety of the driver and the passenger. The radio controller will know exactly what time the pick was and ETA of destination ensuring the whereabouts of the driver Is known at all times.
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I am thinking you are talking of an ideal world where everybody plays by the rules.
There are illegal cabs touting for business that don't have much of anything going for them, not even a safe car.
There are illegal cabs touting for business that don't have much of anything going for them, not even a safe car.
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Bruv;1453642 wrote: I am thinking you are talking of an ideal world where everybody plays by the rules.
There are illegal cabs touting for business that don't have much of anything going for them, not even a safe car. Yes there are but my post was In response to the difference between Black Hackney and private hire mini-cabs.
There are illegal cabs touting for business that don't have much of anything going for them, not even a safe car. Yes there are but my post was In response to the difference between Black Hackney and private hire mini-cabs.
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Oscar Mate;1453644 wrote: Yes there are but my post was In response to the difference between Black Hackney and private hire mini-cabs.
I suggest you book a ride with Dad's Cabs down St Pauls, and compare reality with your criticism.
I suggest you book a ride with Dad's Cabs down St Pauls, and compare reality with your criticism.
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The business of blasting the taxi (hackney or mini-cab)horn seems to be countrywide. Where I live, taxis sound their horns outside the house where they were booked to do a pick up, in order to advertise to the customer that the taxi was there ! This annoys the heck out of me as it is so anti-social. Why they do it is not entirely clear to me, as most taxi drivers have mobile phones which they can use to announce their arrival at the customer's house. I do appreciate that taxi drivers are loathe to leave their vehicle (even locked) to knock on a customer's door, particularly when it's dark, but using a mobile phone negates the need to sound the car horn, or leave the vehicle unattended !
I agree with Tyr over the horn-sounding, and also point out that it is illegal to sound a vehicle's horn whilst stationary, and also I believe it is illegal to sound horns on the move after 11pm and before 7 am in the UK (I may be inaccurate with those times though).
I agree with Tyr over the horn-sounding, and also point out that it is illegal to sound a vehicle's horn whilst stationary, and also I believe it is illegal to sound horns on the move after 11pm and before 7 am in the UK (I may be inaccurate with those times though).
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Oscar Namechange;1453626 wrote: No min-cab can operate with out regulated council tariffs and meters ( not Including waiting time ).
And, just to clear up the lingering misinformation here,Cabbies are unhappy that Uber is using a mobile app to work out the cost of rides. They argue this is tantamount to a taxi meter, which only black cabs are legally entitled to use in London.
BBC News - London braced for anti-Uber protests
And, just to clear up the lingering misinformation here,Cabbies are unhappy that Uber is using a mobile app to work out the cost of rides. They argue this is tantamount to a taxi meter, which only black cabs are legally entitled to use in London.
BBC News - London braced for anti-Uber protests
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