Thats pretty normal dude.
I have called a couple of them out on it before and they make up some s*** about it being a job you called in rather than just jumping in a cab from a taxi rank. Sometimes they say it the other way around 2.

They also like to shoot people.



But in fairness they do drive an LPG powered vehicle all day.

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they are also bad drivers

i enjoy making their life tough whenever i get the chance

I had one last week that raved about how f***ed up our country is and how we drink too much, how we are greedy and lazy etc etc .. depressed the s*** outta me. I eventually asked him nicely to stfu and drive, which he did.

I wish I told him to f*** off if he didn't like it, missed my chance though, I was knackered from work and couldn't be bothered at the time.

last edited by NoLogic at 12:26:42 04/Jun/10

Got a cab from the city with another guy,
He got dropped off 1km from my house. $100.
I went up the road, and he charged me $100. I was too drunk to argue. F***. I hate being such a laid back no caring drunk.
If i was sober i woulda been all WTF and angry.

Somewhere, somehow, teq is angry over this post.

when they call me mate i tell them to get their own word and gtfo out of the cab

i suppose the plus side of them not speaking english is that they can't talk your ear off like the bogan aussie retards

Plus it's a lot easier to feel like a slave owning colonialist when you have minorities driving you everywhere.

Cab driving is the worst job of all.
Ive had a couple of friends drive and it messes with the mind.

Had a friend that used to be a fairly heavy pot smoker. He'd be driving around in the Cab sometimes and he'd look in the mirror and there was someone there, he'd forgot he had a fair lolz.

I always pay a small tip to Cabbies, its a s*** job so giv'em a break.

my primest cab driver would be a white chick with big tits who smelt nice and didnt talk to me

hay, i jsut realised, thats how i like my hairdressers too!

I had a great cabbie last night he had those gloves with the finger tips cut off, all twitchy and s***, looked like a serial killer.

I offer cash don't turn the meter on just shove it in your pocket and say your on a break it works like half the time and everyones a winner. normally like 25 to where i live i offer 15 bucks worked with that bloke so i listened to his ranting.

if hes a real prick just do a runner its fun.

there's a taxi thread and no-one has mentioned me yet?

here are the fares: http://www.blackandwhitecabs.com.au/cms/pages/TAXI_MENU/Estimate/!/Services/Taxi+Fares/display.html

Basically the tariff is $2.70. If you ring for a cab, it's an extra $1.40. If it's night, it's an extra $1.30 ($4.00 flagfall). If it's 2am-5am it's a $6 flagfall.

I always pay a small tip to Cabbies, its a s*** job so giv'em a break.

Truth.

last edited by hardware at 13:10:21 04/Jun/10

i love that guy that is a "dj/singer" and tried to sell u his cd's

Didn't worry me cause I think that meant he could get further up the queue to pickup from the airport

Sort of. The main reason would be so he could not pay the owners of the cab their percentage, he could keep it all for himself.

I love how many different jobs lots of these taxi drivers supposedly had: doctors, physicians, dentists, etc. I reckon they get into this country to fill a skill shortage then just get in a cab to piss everyone off. Or they sucked at their jobs and got fired.

There are a few white cab drivers (to be perfectly racist) that have been really friendly guys didn't have the heater on max, the sound on max and smelled like crap (like the ones which spend so much time in the cab that they get hookers to lean in the door, no really, i've seen that happen in woolloongabba, i hate to think what else they don't get out of the cab for).

Honestly you can summarise them into groups

Indian with a past job, will be chatty and tell you about how he was a doctor but manages to change the topic or tell you that being a cab driver makes life with his kids that much easier! 7/10 for usually having a little hygene and respect. Won't know the location but can understand english enough that he can put in suburb names by entering them into his GPS without asking "How do you spell Chapel hill?"

Indian without a past job, will be chatty but incomprehensible. He'll yell at traffic and tell you a story whether or not you like (or understand it) about some past fare or how he beat up a black guy in the passenger seat. Will fling the car around corners and speed through red lights and brake hard and fast throwing you into the dash or front chair. You're not sure if the smell is because he's more drunk than you are or if its something even worse. He'll start the cab rolling at $10 and will get lost 3 times. His heater will be on max, so if you drank too much the heat will boil your brain while the car ride will swirl your guts. If you dont spew, you get bonus points. Won't know how to spell most suburbs that aren't "Airport, valley, city" and will drive north first to take you south while gps finds a route.

Retrenched White guy, will be quiet and understand where "St lucia" is when you say that's where you want to go and take his own route there without GPS. He'll ask you when you get close which street to take and you can easily direct him. Simple job.

Angry white guy. Usually racist and will tell you about how some of his fares have paid in sex.. or worse. He'll tell you about "abo c***" and generally be a racist douche until you get to your destination not even realising the time has passed although it felt like eternity of trying to ignore him. You pay him quick, you get the feeling that his stories are so he could distract you while he piled on a few more dollars.

There are more....

I was shanked in Trieste, Italy getting a taxi to the airport. In a nutshell I ended up paying 75 EUR for a taxi ride of about 20km. He charged me 20 EUR for a toll gate we went through that was probably only 5 or 6 EUR.

I was late for a flight, I meant to catch a bus that never came so I had to quickly get a taxi instead. If I wasn't running late I would have fought it but I was about to miss my plane so I was like, "Yeah, dude, take all my f***n money, I don't care as long as I get this flight."

Wish I could live that one over again. Dodgy prick.

Also we were in Launceston last year and caught a taxi immediately after my Grandmother's funeral. Taxi driver parked on the opposite side of the road to us, facing in the opposite direction that we wanted to go. He wouldn't turn around. I just said, "Turn around or go home, up to you."

So he banged a u-turn, picked us up.

He was on his mobile phone the whole 15min drive into the city - holding it in his hand but had it on speaker phone. We were telling him where to go and his girlfriend on the phone was saying stuff like, "Are you working?" (i.e., do you have a fare) and he was answering, "No. It's fine." - obviously he's had problems in the past.

My mrs was f*****g irate.

About half the distance she lost it and said, "Pull over."

While I was still in the passenger seat (she was in the back) she opened the front passenger door and gave him a f*****g mouthful.

Anyway, the driver was this big African dude. I was actually concerned for our safety after the tirade she gave him, threatening to report him and what-not. He just kept saying, "Please darling! Don't report me darling!"

Hairy situation that one. We were zig-zagging up and down streets to make sure he didn't come back and f*** us up. I gave her a big blast about being street-safe. I just said, "I understand you were angry, but just get him to pull over and say, 'Here will do thanks', get out and get another taxi - no big deal."

He didn't have his taxi ID up or anything, so we certainly could have taken it further (and probably should have).

i was up in brisbane for work and moved my flight back from friday night till early the next morning so i could kick it at the RE, as you do.

anyways, after a big night and a couple of hours sleep 6am comes along and my cab turns up to take me tot he airport and im in a pretty dicey state. anyways, on the way to the airport im having a bit of a nap and i notice the cab driver is doing laps on the innercity bypass. getting off at an exit, driving back along side streets and then getting back on at the previous exit.

so i call him on it, and he blames his gps. i say bulls*** (he was on his third lap) and look at the meter and tell him to reset it or im calling the taxi council and he did.

dodgey f****.

I have to say english cabbies are worse.

Man that's dongs.

share that info then ticman instead of holding out on us like paid hooker.

oooh, my cab story was from san francisco

we're cruising back to our hotel with some russian scabby

going up and down san frans hills and we're cruising along

anyway lights go red up ahead (just before we got to them) cabbie goes through

im with family, no one really cares too much

next set of lights over a hill, same thing, cept lite was way red this time, no traffic coming the other way;

we're like ok, that was a little scary, dad says "that light was red", cabbie grunts;

next set of lights, light is way red before we get anywhere near it, cabbie is flying, cars are coming from 90 degrees, we're about to crash, scabby screaches to halt, other car screaches to half, cabbie goes "F***", guys in other car start screaming abuse at cabbie, my old man goes "F***", we're all freaking out;

cabbie just starts driving, swerves around all these angry guys getting out of other car that we nearly crashed into and zooms off back up the road, back to our holiday inn!

fun times! (he never said said a word appart from f***)

He was probably tanked on vodka.

3 Point Corporate Cars and Yilmaz is the owner's name but now he's made heaps of phat loots and gets his underlings to drive people around. He's an awesome guy though - he even offered me his brothers (brother went back to Turkey for a holiday) place down at Torquay years back when I wanted to come down for a holiday.

I had a cabby a few years ago that told us that he negotiated with a guy from the previous night, that didn't have money for the fare, to receive a head job in leui of payment. He went on to advise that his 'tip' was the guy swallowed :/

Man, I was checking my pockets quick smart for the cash.

thats because, sparrow, the vast majority of cabbies are good to people who aren't a*******s

BH, cabbies don't have bosses. The cars have owners and they don't give a s***, they just want their cut and the car un-wrecked.

Surely they have to report to someone at the company? The threat seemed to work.

I've never had a problem with dodgy cab drivers. You lot must all look like easy targets, or act like an bastard who they're happy to rort.

You could have been ripped off without knowing ;)

thats because, sparrow, the vast majority of cabbies are good to people who aren't a*******s

Totally agree. I've had some awesome cab drivers in the past but also the occasional dodgy one like I wrote about who tried to rip us off for a Saturday afternoon $12 cab fair.

there was really only ever one good cab company in the world......
http://mongie.com/ulimages/opt1275627660q.jpg

much like the hookers amirite?!

u r rite! :D

The problem with LFB is that most people are retarded and apply the same pressure to the brake with their left foot as they would the clutch (with their left foot.) Which makes for rather unpleasant stopping times.

thats right scooter
it took me a little while to get it right (after 2 years of owning a manual) but now i can seamlessly switch between driving a manual and an automatic using LFB or RFB. I've freaked a few people out at times, but once they see how smooth i drive they don't mind. I think.

Yeah i tried left foot breaking for awhile and i hated it. Like scooter said i kept putting too much pressure on it asif it were a clutch and it was just unco to me.

OMG! mission yeah my mates have told me about that shifty cabbie he offers to suck peoples d**** and they don't have to pay for the fair. you reminded me thats so creepy

Got in a cab with a mate and my mate made the mistake of saying "hows ya night been".

The old aussie fired up about how hes retired but forced to be a cabby coz he has no coin and how all the indians are taking his job and theres just more and more of the f*****s coming into the industry etc etc.

Soo much profanity and racism, lucky it was a short ride (City to West End) coz he was boring the s*** out of me.

possibly ara. I've seen it applied well and i've seen it applied poorly (ie vacuum line pops off the brake booster lulz)

the main reason it seems so natural to me is that i assumed it was the done thing when i first started driving autos as i'd spent so much time as a teenager go-karting, where of course you used your left foot to brake.

I always watch taxi drivers closely. They wont get from me a cent more than they are allowed to charge. The probably don't pay any tax anyways.

cabbies or not, people accelerating away with their brake lights glowing, are doing it wrong

BH, cabbies don't have bosses. The cars have owners and they don't give a s***, they just want their cut and the car un-wrecked.

Surely they have to report to someone at the company? The threat seemed to work

Yeah, they still get in the s*** from the company they work for for breaking laws and fair trading practices etc and can be taken off rosters. That'd be the harshest thing for alot of the foreign cabbies.

I just remembered a couple more stories.

In brisbane again, and coming back from a workmate's place after having awesome indian. My cabbie drops me off outside my hotel and then proceeds to do a u-turn right infront of a car coming the other direction. The girl driving t-bones the cabbie, smashing in the passenger side door that i exited not 2 minutes earlier.

The cabbie then proceeds to get out and tell her it is her fault. I tell her to call the cops and give her my details if she needs a witness, to which the cabbie starts telling me to mind my own business and get lost saying stuff like "I have your name from your credit card receipt if you cause me trouble" etc.

She calls the cops but i never get a call so i guess it got sorted out.

Now, back in San Francisco. I was over there for work and was getting shuttle to the airport to come home. Get in this shuttle and driving around picking up other people from hotels when this cabbie cuts off the shuttle driver.

Now, this guy was a nutter too because he drove like a maniac to then cut off the cabbie. So the cabbie starts tailgating us around the place and speeds up next to the shuttle to yell abuse. The shuttle driver grabs a half empty bottle of soft drink and throws it out the window and into the cab and smashes the cabbie in the face and drives away.

Now it all goes nuts. The cabbie is following us all the way to the airport, swerving into us and trying to get in front. Shuttle driver is swerving through traffic to stay infront. We get to the airport and the cabbie gets out as soon as we stop and starts a fist fight with the shuttle driver.

I had paid in advance with work's CC, so i just got my bags and left them to their madness.

lol ara.

my last cab driver went on and on about how i should mate with an asian chick cause our kids would apparently be supermodel beautiful. WTF.

Maybe he was coming onto you, was he asian? Could he have been a ladyman wearing man clothes?

Don't have to tolerate cabs too frequently - every cab I've caught over here in Singapore has been super-rad though.

Cab stories: I've had the usual shocking foreigners but the majority have been fine. The single worst cabbie I've had was a bogan aussie who started out seeming nice enough and quite chatty... Myself and 2 friends jumped in after seeing a gig and directed him towards my house. He got talking about all kinds of things - how much he hated aboriginals, why don't asians ever speak english, what the f*** is with kids these days not playing footy, dodgy parts of brisbane, people trying to do runners on him... then he started talking about his wife... er, soon to be ex-wife... er, actually they were more in a defacto relationship but they called each other husband and wife... actually they (etc). We got the sob story about how it'd all gone wrong and had gone to court (though at this point why had not been explained) . He got more and more into discussing her, progressively more worked up and rather angry.

Of course he pays less attention to the road - several near misses and a few "what the f*** mate"s later his story wraps up with a "I mean, how was I supposed to know there was a f***en brick wall behind her head when I gave her a punch". I think it was a nigh on simultaneous "uh, right here mate" from us in the cab.

Rad cabbies: Super friendly old mate picked me up after a tea party gig - had f*** all cash on me and could only afford to get to the toowong round-about so to get to my place there was probably an additional $15 in fare I couldn't pay. Tells me that his daughter was at the same concert and he was going to pick her up after she had a drink with friends in about 20 minutes - turns the meter off and drops me to my door - doesn't even accept the amount of the fare I could cover.

Reading these stories makes me glad I have never had a bad cab driver.

Our local taxis are meant to be prepaid after 10pm but everytime I have caught a cab after ten I just generally pay when I get to were I am going. Hell Ive even got a taxi for a $10 fare before and they didn't say its too close to want to drive there.

I just said, "Right. Nice." Ahaha, I'm not across the etiquette of how one should handle that situation.

F*****g gold! Sounds like the punch line of a comedy strip right there. just wow.

Bulls*** Spidz, i should be able to get into the boot if i want to and know that i'm not getting ripped off by matchfixa.

There was this girl who wanted to get home but didn't have enough for the taxi fare home, so she got in the taxi anyway, When she reached her destination, she opened her legs up and said 'would you accept this as payment?' The Taxi Driver then said 'Do you have anything smaller.' Might not be a true story.

I had a whitey cab driver hit some chick outside the port office going down around to the river side express. Not full on run over but going at least a few k's an hour... kinda bumped her a bit and we kept driving lulz. I'm like "mate you just hit that drunko" "she shouldnt have been on the road!!!!!!RAWRRRR" This c*** was about to explode with rage so I just shut up for the journey home.

had some vietnamese c*** try to introduce me to his daughter.

some israeli pakistan or some kinda spanish chinese dude with the full religious music like on black hawk down ranting on about terrorists and how brisbane is f***ed. Didn't wanna be racist but so just went with it. groovy music broseph.

Some israeli pakistan or some kinda spanish chinese dude..

haha

Ya and the Israeli Pakistan is Benjamin Sanjeev.

I assume you guys heard about this taxi driver

Apparantly Derrick Bird was an ex-nuclear plant worker before he was a taxi driver. Probably lucky he flipped out in his current occupation rather than his former occupation.

Last CAB i took was from office christmas work party to home in outer eastern suburbs a few years ago. Its a long trip anyway but the taxi driver drove 20 minutes before realising the road was blocked off due to road works and we had to turn around and go 20 minutes back the way we came to take a different route.

He was following his GPS though so i dont blame him, even though the mofo probably knew about the road works.

Anyway eventually we got to my mates place who lives 3 km from me, we had a work cab charge but the prick wouldnt accept it and wanted cash, made some excuse that they cant be used after 12am or some crap.

We were so wasted we paid cash and gave up ripping off work then i walked the 3 km home.

i see brissy cabbies are striking because the popo were mean to them and gave them tickets at the airport

boohoo cabbies, dont breakt he law, dont get tickets.

might help if there was some kind of counter showing how many cabs were waiting at the airport so cabbies could tell if it was worth lining up.

this new bay thing is going to cost the cabbies money though isnt it ?
i guess the cost will get put on the passengers.

oh noes how dare some massive corporation s*** on the poor cabbies

I'm sure that BAC would prefer everyone used the airport train or drove in so they got $50+ in parking fees

f*** cabbies, they're the second most useless minority on the road - only just behind asian female drivers
rude pricks that just push in where ever they want, flout road/parking rules and act like general d****
do they feel that they deserve extra leniency because it's their job?

If I rent a car and I go through the Lemon7 who pays the Toll ?

You do, idiot.

Fining Drivers at the Airport ?

oh come on, even I think cops need to be there to fine idiots who are doing the wrong thing
just because they drive for a living doesn't mean they are above the normal road rules

if your mum cant park there then neither should a cabby be able to, they are no different than every other driver on the road

I'm pretty sure even regular boaties can't have >0.0 either
at least that's what I was told 2-3 years ago when I got my boat/PWC license?

but yeah I do agree with you, there's definitely no way the whole "we drive all the time so we should get more points" s*** flies with me

scooter is old. Prob asks the eurosluts to put their tops on too

Nah, not old, just not stupid. 26 here. Plenty of drinking goes on at night, just none during the day.

Fishing is another matter, I don't know how anyone could do that sober, but I don't go fishing... so it's not really an issue for me.