Those f**king Cab Drivers!

[SECURITY]

bit off topic but

i know a fella that got pulled over by a coppa for doin like 5k's over the limit it was around $150 fine

the dude was pretty pissedas you would be the coppa was cockie

so the coppa got back in his car

the fella got out of his car put his fluro vest on as he is a govermant OH&S officer he asked the police officer to get out of the car

he gave him a fine of 400+ dollars for failing to complie to saftey standards on the job

about time someone got them back i say

yeah i heard about that. the copper appealed it and won.

[Beer Baron]

well I nearly got a in a fight with a cabbie the other day. he farken ripped me off. it wasn't my money (cabcharge) but the principal of the thing pissed me off. the problem was I had a tomei stroker crankshaft worth a few thou in the boot and the bastard refused to open it so in the end I gave in and resisted the urge to strangle him in front of my office. nasty.

[Marsss]

taxi drivers = assholes

nuff said.

[scathing]

I regularly get cabs home from work (Cabcharge), and they are the only people that manage to really scare me on the road. Their inability to drive to conditions, stay in one lane, negotiate traffic smoothly, use indicators, or maintain constant throttle/speed beggars belief.

The fact that they also disable their airbags and ABS, and don't wear seatbelts, freaks me out considering idiots like this would be more likely to crash than middle aged, pissed, old blokes driving down the Great Western Highway.

I used to think that if you did something for long enough, eventually you gain enough experience to stop sucking at it. But cabbies seem to be an exception. Learner drivers have better car control than your typical cab driver.

[D_I_F]

Gotta love cabcharge..

[sh@un]

I used to think that if you did something for long enough, eventually you gain enough experience to stop sucking at it. But cabbies seem to be an exception.

being arrogant, they just reinforce their bad driving habits 13 hours a day instead. lol

[GoldZilla]

I regularly get cabs home from work (Cabcharge), and they are the only people that manage to really scare me on the road. Their inability to drive to conditions, stay in one lane, negotiate traffic smoothly, use indicators, or maintain constant throttle/speed beggars belief.

The fact that they also disable their airbags and ABS, and don't wear seatbelts, freaks me out considering idiots like this would be more likely to crash than middle aged, pissed, old blokes driving down the Great Western Highway.

I used to think that if you did something for long enough, eventually you gain enough experience to stop sucking at it. But cabbies seem to be an exception. Learner drivers have better car control than your typical cab driver.

I was gonna ask about that, are they somehow exempt, or just dumb-ar$es? I've probably caught a cab maybe three times in 5 years, but I've always noticed this.

The last think I want to happen if I get in an accident is for one of these clowns to injure me due to the fact that they were bouncing around during an accident they likely caused...

[Beer Baron]

they can get exemptions from wearing a seatbelt due to health reasons. not too bright though...

[GoldZilla]

So I'm guessing they all have bad backs, hence the beaded seat covers that are/were so popular with them?

[scathing]

being arrogant, they just reinforce their bad driving habits 13 hours a day instead. lol

They're making a living driving cabs, not doing practical astrophysics or neuro-surgery....let alone driving in WRC or F1. What have they got to be arrogant about?

I've been really tempted to just go absolutely nuts abusing a cabbie a few times; if I wasn't telling them where I lived I probably would. I have, at least twice in the last few years, told a cab driver to just pull over and let me out because I was not going to go any further with him.

[scathing]

I was gonna ask about that, are they somehow exempt, or just dumb-ar$es? I've probably caught a cab maybe three times in 5 years, but I've always noticed this.

If I remember correctly (and IANAL) when the laws were brought in making seat belts compulsary cab drivers were given an exemption, because they have to spend so long in the car and its uncomfortable.

I don't get it. I feel uncomfortable not wearing a seatbelt when I'm driving, but then I also use it to hold me in place as drive around at my favoured pace.

[Sticky]

maybe instead of the tv doing a thing on hoons every 2 weeks, they should do an investigation into cab drivers?

get a undercover police officer to go for a ride with a hidden camera to some destination. and at the end of the ride give the cabbie a fine for all the driving offences they have done.

one night on the way back from north sydney at late at night, my mates and i got a cab back home......

- the driver only knew if he was in the lane by the line markers (noise of hitting them),

- he never used an indicator but was changing lanes every 400 metres (dont know if he meant to change lanes?)

- at one point there was a sydney water truck stopped in the middle of the road doing work.... and the cabbie didnt realise he wasnt moving till we just about hit it..... (scared the crap out of me as we got closer)

- he did a 3 point turn in a thin street where there was double lines

- when we said to stop and let us out he kept driving another 50-100m

the guy seemed like he was half dead