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what the hell!!
£28 for a 8 mile trip from one village to another!!!
taxi drivers recently complained they were going out of business up here because of a lack of customers, its no bloody wonder. i could have hired a car and paid the petrol for that!!! needless to say no tip was left!!
£28 for a 8 mile trip from one village to another!!!
taxi drivers recently complained they were going out of business up here because of a lack of customers, its no bloody wonder. i could have hired a car and paid the petrol for that!!! needless to say no tip was left!!
The reason I always try and sort lifts out, and indeed when evenings are clement would rather spend an hour walking home from town or wherever I am than pay £14 to get a 4 minute taxi home. I'm prudent because that is the way I have been brought up to be and I deem VFM with a taxi ride abysmal. Frankly it's a con.
They moan it isn't well paid lol. Well someone is creaming a fantastic amount of money as the fuel must cost them about £1.50 tops and even taking into account wear and tear it's £2. Who is creaming the other £12 for less than 10 minutes work...
The last taxi ride was £14.20. The guy was shocked when I was still stood there expecting my 80p change? Tip? Stop charging so much you greedy
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They moan it isn't well paid lol. Well someone is creaming a fantastic amount of money as the fuel must cost them about £1.50 tops and even taking into account wear and tear it's £2. Who is creaming the other £12 for less than 10 minutes work...
The last taxi ride was £14.20. The guy was shocked when I was still stood there expecting my 80p change? Tip? Stop charging so much you greedy
. I went for some beers last month with a good mate of mine, he lives 0.3 of a mile further away from the pub we were in but in the opposite direction. His house is in a bit of a crappy mainly council house area, mine is in a quiet area where everything is privately owned and much better off, My Taxi £8.30 his £4.40.
Cheapest ever must be near Stranraer, £8.00 to do a 9 mile drop off at 1 am, any bloke willing to do that with 4 pissed fat men carrying kebabs deserves double
Cheapest ever must be near Stranraer, £8.00 to do a 9 mile drop off at 1 am, any bloke willing to do that with 4 pissed fat men carrying kebabs deserves double
Edited by Chris_w666 on Monday 8th March 17:32
slipstream 1985 said:
what the hell!!
£28 for a 8 mile trip from one village to another!!!
taxi drivers recently complained they were going out of business up here because of a lack of customers, its no bloody wonder. i could have hired a car and paid the petrol for that!!! needless to say no tip was left!!
From one village to another. Country lanes to take up time and to decimate fuel consumption. He had to get to your house, then on to your destination? How long did the latter take? And then he had to drive back. £28 for a 8 mile trip from one village to another!!!
taxi drivers recently complained they were going out of business up here because of a lack of customers, its no bloody wonder. i could have hired a car and paid the petrol for that!!! needless to say no tip was left!!
Best part of an hour all in? Plus fuel and taxi insurance and maintenance and radio hire?
All for £28. (and thankfully you didn't run away when it came time to pay or spray your stomach lining around the interior)
I wouldn't work for that little.
soad said:
ezi said:
I got a taxi once by myself and was rather drunk (Ok I couldn't even string a sentence together), taxi driver must've noticed this and we went about 1 mile (One road), he wanted £15.
What happened in the end? Take it, you didn't pay £15?! We need closure...;)pbirkett said:
ZOLLAR said:
Thats cheap!! from my work home 6.7 miles its £30!!!
no it isn't cheap. 5 mile taxi ride home on Friday night costs me £10 - £12. If I ring someone up and pre-book it can be about £8. Chris_w666 said:
soad said:
ezi said:
I got a taxi once by myself and was rather drunk (Ok I couldn't even string a sentence together), taxi driver must've noticed this and we went about 1 mile (One road), he wanted £15.
What happened in the end? Take it, you didn't pay £15?! We need closure...;)
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