2020-11-27 16:59
An interesting piece here from the Church Times, believe it or not. Colin Dobson is interviewed on his life of taxi driving. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/27-novembe… Read More
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2020-06-10 17:10
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 the years, but I've actually never written Read More
2020-04-12 10:53
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 indeed true in the State of Washington, taxis are now… Read More
2020-01-22 16:58
Cabs Are For Kissing: Why The Medallion Tanked: For several years now the most talked-about topics of conversation with passengers have been Uber and the fate of the once coveted taxi med Read More
2020-01-15 16:00
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 announced with some enthusiasm that their destination was… Read More
2019-12-19 15:44
2019-12-19 09:58
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2016-09-03 18:58
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, they sure do bother some people. Apparently, I have had a spider… Read More
2016-09-01 19:14
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 uniforms. One woman was totally oblivious to her three unr… Read More
2016-08-06 19:09
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 waiting for a minute or two when a guy walked down t… Read More
2016-07-28 14:53
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 my fare walking through it and messing the car up… Read More
2016-07-28 14:22
Overseas readers might know an operator as a dispatcher.OPERATORS LAMENTWe sit behind glass windows like being in a goldfish bowlSat glued to our seats looking at our consoleTaking calls gal… Read More
2016-06-24 19:48
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 with the fare when I saw a guy with a loose dog on… Read More
2016-06-19 18:39
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 wave which we have been experiencing for the… Read More
2016-06-11 20:20
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 broken down miles from anywhere. The two passengers want… Read More
2016-05-24 19:31
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 street when she said “no de judderbutt… Read More
2016-05-18 18:18
A 15-minute drama, written by Nicholas Hargreaves and Tabitha Konstantine. - We follow the journey of a black cab and it's driver, through three different jobs which are all inspired by true… Read More
2016-05-14 19:25
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 straightaway I had picked him up many times before the amount… Read More
2016-05-03 18:47
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 change. But when I looked at the four "poun… Read More
2016-04-25 19:37
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 haphazardly on the road with the hazard warning lights… Read More
2016-04-25 19:17
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 Read More
2016-04-25 19:05
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 shines but where are they at other times I wonder, o… Read More
2016-04-12 18:12
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 she set it five minutes fast. Why do that I asked… Read More
2016-04-07 18:57
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 problem was that only one of them… Read More
2016-03-31 20:04
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 returned from a tour overseas. He told me that nowaday… Read More
2016-03-20 19:36
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 possessions with him. Are you off somewhere nic… Read More
2016-03-09 18:44
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. Girl chav" why didn't you eat the dinner I made you?"… Read More
2016-03-04 19:53
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 go I asked? "Dalton” she replied a… Read More
2016-02-27 20:22
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 bridesmaids brother going to the bride’s mothers… Read More
2016-02-19 19:30
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 week, and they can be of either sex and old or young… Read More
2016-02-08 21:07
Today was one of the very few occasions when I found myself lost for words, I usually have no problems understanding just about any nationality, but today the two lasses who got into the bac… Read More
2016-02-04 14:44
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 airwaves system to dispatch work. After about… Read More
2016-02-04 14:44
A young girl passenger was telling me about her crazy Saturday night out this morning. It involved lots of alcohol, drunken fallouts, regrets and only hazy recollections. But I think the ros… Read More
2016-01-28 20:56
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 it was her first time oop north. “Well, what do you… Read More
2016-01-19 20:03
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 three of the pound coins. They rolled down the… Read More
2016-01-13 17:28
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 next town five miles up the road, but the fare had st… Read More
2016-01-11 20:00
Early one morning I had a call to pick up from what I thought was a really dodgy place. My screen just gave the flimsy location of school playing fields in the nearby town of Dalton, wh… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A driver’s number or call sign can be very important to him; some drivers want their lucky number or a number that means something significant to them. This leads to drivers trading nu… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Way up here in this part of the North of England, we tend to call the last Friday before Christmas “Black Eye Friday.” It's the day most people finish work for the Christmas… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Some stuff will just never find its way onto these pages, some stuff which I see and hear would just be too hurtful to the folks involved. Other stuff can be told after the passage of time t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I always like to listen to people's regional accents and then try to guess exactly whereabouts they are from. Today I guessed correctly that my fare was from the Salford area straight after… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It still amazes me even after all these years driving a taxi just how different one fare can be from the next. A day or two back I picked up an Italian doctor up who was over here… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Now and again I will pick someone up who tries to catch me out by asking to go to a street with no houses on which very few people have heard of. A few local examples of these are Water… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I had picked a couple up very early on the Sunday morning , they had obviously been out all night long and both looked the worse for wear. They were both going to Walney Islan… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Walney Island's west shore park which is a kind of chalet retirement village has always had an unofficial competition for the wackiest garden ornament. Well I would say that this is the outr… Read More
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