Why are taxi drivers the worst drivers?

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Have to agree with that, when it’s clearly obvious that letting someone out would be the RIGHT thing to do, women often just close the gap, eyes fixed in a 1000 yard stare, while guys will give you a quick light flash to say “go ahead”, reasoning that that’s what they’d like others to do for them.

Lol spot on with the 1000yd stare thing! I know it so well. It's what you normally see them doing when they cut you up/pull out in front of you at a roundabout and then you pull along side them on a dual carriageway
 
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Cyclists are moving at about 6-20mph unless putting in substantial effort or having gravity/wind/motor assistance.
Drivers are moving at about 0-15mph most of the time in London.

They are much slower than cyclists.

Unless cycling into a major headwind or up hill >20mph is a fairly easy effort.
 

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Run a taxi company with 30 drivers

Some are fantastic most are barely competent. Some shouldn't be allowed anywhere within 100 miles of a car
 
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Run a taxi company with 30 drivers

Some are fantastic most are barely competent. Some shouldn't be allowed anywhere within 100 miles of a car

And this, gents, is the best summary we're going to get. When the guy running a taxi company concludes most are barely competent you know he's speaking the truth.
 
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Run a taxi company with 30 drivers

Some are fantastic most are barely competent. Some shouldn't be allowed anywhere within 100 miles of a car
Thankfully it’s the reverse with HGV drivers in my experience - perhaps down to training required to get the license plus periodic classroom training (driver CPC) the majority are very good, however some and I don’t mean necessarily our Eastern European friends really make me wonder how on earth they managed to get to a given delivery point, this sometimes springs to mind... :D
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We banned a few taxi companies from coming on site because their drivers were lunatics. Now people have to walk and meet them at the main entrance.
 
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We got kicked out of a taxi for asking the driver to get of his phone after he went though a red light and narrowly missed another car. And the cheeky **** even had the audacity to phone the police because I wouldn't pay him and even attempted to play the race card too. Funny thing though, when the police showed up and my missus had showed them the video she'd taken of him driving whilst using his phone he instantly shut the **** up and dropped the fare and admitted he was lying about the racist crap.

do you regularly record your taxi drivers? just seems weird
 

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what i would say regards HGV drivers if you spend any time on the motorway at night theres a heck of a lot of them struggling to stay awake

i'm guessing its tough when theres pressure on you to make schedules

i had a run to Liverpool last night but thankfully i'm in the position where i could just drop into Tebay and grab an hour before continuing up the road.
 
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what i would say regards HGV drivers if you spend any time on the motorway at night theres a heck of a lot of them struggling to stay awake

i'm guessing its tough when theres pressure on you to make schedules

i had a run to Liverpool last night but thankfully i'm in the position where i could just drop into Tebay and grab an hour before continuing up the road.

I have no real idea of what their shift patterns are like but I am assuming they do long shifts 4 days on then say 4 days off or something like that. Where it's a 12 hour shift or something.

Lets assume they need to do something and say their shift starts at 6pm til 6 am. Rather than sleeping the night before at say 9am til 4pm. They will probably be going to sleep like a normal person and waking up at 8am and taking kids to school or going to the shops, dropping stuff off at post office, etc or going to a doctor's / dentists appointment then going to work at 6pm. So come 1am they are knackered. It's normal.

What they need to do is make driverless vehicles a reality and make them either affordable or able to be rented/leased for short periods of time for peanuts. Like 1/3rd the price of an Uber ride is currently.

You then have to make them clean too. The drivers are human and have responsibilities. their shifts are more suitable for machines rather than humans.
 
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Have to agree with that, when it’s clearly obvious that letting someone out would be the RIGHT thing to do, women often just close the gap, eyes fixed in a 1000 yard stare, while guys will give you a quick light flash to say “go ahead”, reasoning that that’s what they’d like others to do for them.

I wonder if it says social awareness thing.

Men seem much more able to predict thier speed the gap the time it takes to manoeuvre etc.


I usualy know if I flash a bloke (hehe) he will be out and gone and I wont have to adjust speed.

If I flash a woman I will have to slow down as there will be dithering.





On cab drivers from the perspective of a motorcyclist, uber etc are terrible literally like they haven't passed a test.

Black cabs outside of London are just ******** loads of uturns/no indication.

Black cab drivers in London seem decent though they will take small gaps and are confident in their ability but they do seem very aware of what's around them etc not ridden in London much but I felt far less at risk around London cabs than Manchester cabs
 
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I have no real idea of what their shift patterns are like but I am assuming they do long shifts 4 days on then say 4 days off or something like that. Where it's a 12 hour shift or something.

Lets assume they need to do something and say their shift starts at 6pm til 6 am. Rather than sleeping the night before at say 9am til 4pm. They will probably be going to sleep like a normal person and waking up at 8am and taking kids to school or going to the shops, dropping stuff off at post office, etc or going to a doctor's / dentists appointment then going to work at 6pm. So come 1am they are knackered. It's normal.

What they need to do is make driverless vehicles a reality and make them either affordable or able to be rented/leased for short periods of time for peanuts. Like 1/3rd the price of an Uber ride is currently.

You then have to make them clean too. The drivers are human and have responsibilities. their shifts are more suitable for machines rather than humans.

Long time since I last drove a 44 ton artic, maybe 1988-1989, but I THINK that the max driving hours in a day are, or were, 9, and that at least a 45 minute break had to be taken after 4.5 hours of driving.
There were some extenuating circumstances, where you could drive 10 hours per day, once or twice in a week, or two week period, but I couldn’t swear to it.
 
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9 hour driving limit extendable to 10 hours twice per week, weekly limit of 56 hours, 90 hour driving limit over two consecutive weeks.

Shifts can be upto 15 hours in a 24 hour period you can do 3 15 hour shifts in a week the rest must be no longer than 13 hours.

I think if Joe Public realised just how long HGV drivers can legally work there would be an outcry - somebody phone the Daily Fail.... :p

@233 , add those hours to the graveyard shift and you soon understand why so many drivers are tired!
 
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