Taxi Tales

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https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/lancaster-taxi-shortage-putting-passengers-22207340 A shortage of taxi drivers across the Lancas...

 An interesting piece here from the Church Times, believe it or not. Colin Dobson is interviewed on his life of taxi driving.  https://www.c...

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8666571/NYC-taxi-driver-shares-story-city-bounce-response-Jerry-Seinfeld-op-ed.html?fbclid=IwAR...

Cabs Are For Kissing: The Rhinoceros Story : Here's a story from the vault.  I've told it many times to passengers in my cab over th...

Real Seattle Taxi: The Supreme Irony Of Taxi Designed As An Essential... : Yes, if you can believe it, because I still can't, that it is...

Cabs Are For Kissing: Why The Medallion Tanked : For several years now the most talked-about topics of conversation with passengers have bee...

Cabs Are For Kissing: How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall? : I stopped for a couple of passengers the other day on the Upper West Side who announc...

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Many of Barrows taxi drivers gathered on Thursday morning at the Town Hall in protest at another proposed hike in taxi fares. ...

I don't mind spiders at all, they just don't bother me, but going by the reactions I have had in the back of the cab lately, the...

I picked lots of noisy kids up this week, it's the week before the schools go back and so it's the last minute rush for school un...

It was a slow Sunday with few rural runs but two jobs stand out from today. The first was from Walney Island, I got to the address and was w...

As I pulled up outside an address to pick up a fare today I noticed a big black dirty oil patch outside and so I parked just past it to save...

Overseas readers might know an operator as a dispatcher. OPERATORS LAMENT We sit behind glass windows like being in a goldfish bowl Sa...

I had picked my very first job of the day up this morning at about 7.30 am and it was to be just a short ride into town, I was talking away ...

Now you may not believe this but the taxi drivers here in Barrow aren’t really well known for their sense of style. But what with the heat ...

I went out on a job to a country lane near the small town of Dalton-in-Furness when I got there it was a driving school car which had broke...

I picked up an old German lady today and a good old stick she is too we were cracking away as we drove along. I was about to turn off down a...

A 15-minute drama, written by Nicholas Hargreaves and Tabitha Konstantine. - We follow the journey of a black cab and it's driver, throu...

My first job this morning at 7; 30am was to take a guy up to High pond Roanhead he was going fishing. I knew where he was going straightawa...

A customer I picked up today never ever tips, so I was very surprised when the fare was £3.40p and he said here's £4.00 keep the chan...

I took a fare out to the village of Baycliff today and on the way out down the coast road, we came across a beat up looking car parked hapha...

Awww how sweet you may say, yes but after the fifth or sixth time of being held up within a few hours that's not exactly what I say.

Loads and loads of pretty girls out and about today I seemed to pick lots of them up one after another. This seems to happen when the sun sh...

A lady who I pick up now and again asked me what the time was, I told her the correct time and she went to adjust her watch. I noticed that ...

Picked up three passengers early this morning and they all had garish eye  makeup on and lots and lots of glitter and blusher.  The only  pr...

I took a guy through to the nearby town of Ulverston today and he was telling me along the way that he was in the army and had recently retu...

I took a guy round to the local Magistrates Court building this week and he had with him a large bag and what looked like all his worldly po...

I had a local chav couple in the back of the cab today and I couldn't help but overhear the bizarre conversation that they were having. ...

My passenger was a young lass of about eighteen years of age and she looked as if butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. Where do you want to...

In stark contrast, to yesterday's run of funeral jobs I had a few wedding runs today. One was with the bride, chief bridesmaid and the b...

I had what I always refer to as a coin juggler in the back of the cab today. I pick this particular type of folk up maybe once or twice a we...

Today was one of the very few occasions when I found myself lost for words, I usually have no problems understanding just about any natio...

I was talking to another driver one day this week, he works for one of the last firms in town which still uses the old voice over the radio...

One of my fare's today was telling me that she was a barrister up here in Barrow on a business trip from that there London and that ...

A young girl passenger was telling me about her crazy Saturday night out this morning. It involved lots of alcohol, drunken fallouts, regr...

A very nice ould lass who had enjoyed her cab ride went to give me a nice tip today, unfortunately as she went to hand it over she dropped t...

Another busy Sunday and the morning started off with lots of leftovers from the Saturday night. One of the first was from a house in the nex...