A couple of weeks ago an Asian Driver was given the boot from a firm on the coast for somehow finding himself and his passenger in Washington whilst enroute to the Airport from Whitley Bay. This week a female Asian driver was let go from a North Shields Taxi company. She had been sent for a pick up to go from North Shields to South Shields but she couldn’t find the Tyne Tunnel. Earlier in the week she had to take a fare from North Shields to Nelson industrial estate in Cramlington! Over an Hour and a half later she had still not arrived, I don’t even know if she ever got there.
Another Asian driver took a fare from North Shields to the Airport, set fare £14.50, (I know, who would do it?) anyway he got to the Airport with £33 on the meter, he had went via Stannington??? This isn’t an anti Asian thing as there are plenty of Asian drivers out there who do know there way around. These drivers are not to blame for this bad service and neither are the operators who take them on. The blame lies squarely at the feet of Licensing.
What are they doing, giving a badge to someone who has such a poor knowledge of the area “You are letting them be Taxi Drivers” there’s a clue there! To you who licence taxi drivers don’t just take their money and run. Make sure they are up to the job. It doesn’t reflect well on the Taxi trade as a whole, the company that takes them on and it certainly is a bad reflection on the Local Authority.
A Taxi driver is more than a driver, who takes passengers from A to B, he or she is an Ambassador of the town or region that they service. As Taxi drivers we pick up holiday makers, visiting businessmen & women and many other people who simply expect the Taxi driver to get them where they want to be. Good local knowledge is imperative if we are to live up the expectations of the passenger.
Our trade is being eroded by outsiders & jobsworths who obviously care nothing about the Taxi trade and more about their own job justification. Don’t let them do it!
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In this article you state it is not the Operator who takes on these (INCOMPETENT DRIVERS) that should be blamed but the Licensing Department Staff who issued the Drivers Badge?
I do not know how you can state this because if the bloody operator gave a shit about their business firstly and not about the £100 a week income they will recieve from these incompetent drivers then these problem drivers would not exist because the operator would not allow any drivers without a North Tyneside Drivers Badge and that would mean they would drive a North Tyneside Licensed Private Hire Vehicle Only!!!
I am certainly not a fan of the North Tyneside Licensing Enforcement Offices who our Council have employed for the last 20 years because the main two of those staff have been in place all throught the 1990`s when the problems of none enforcement of council policy first started and they did not inform the councillors on the Licensing Committee that the rules where being ignored meaning they colaborated with the crimes being committed by their silences, but on this post I have to say that they do follow the rules in relation to if you fail the North Tyneside knowledge then you do not recieve a North Tyneside Drivers Badge and so it is clearly an OUT OF TOWN Licensed Driver you must be talking about in this article!!!!!
Good Luck.
Well I picked up a regular custumer the other day who had stated that he wanted a LOCAL DRIVER when booking his Taxi.
When I picked him up I ask why he had asked for a LOCAL DRIVER?. He then told me that when he was picked up the day before by a young asian driver plated OUT OF TOWN (he could tell by the topsign) from the Gosforth empire club (on salters rd incase anyone didn’t know)going to west denton (just off west denton way)the driver asked him which way to go. The elderly gentlemen being polite said go straight up kenton lane son al keep you right. The driver sat for a few seconds obviously getting his barrings then headed up salters rd, turned right on to kenton rd and left on to kenton lane. All seems well until you get to the crofters. Now most drivers would have turn right on ponteland rd, left on to the A1, first exit off motorway turn right at round about and left passed mc donalds. But the driver didn’t he insted turned left down ponteland rd to cowgate turned right on to stamfordham rd got to the A1 and tried to turn left. The gentlemen told him no son go straiht over. So the driver did go straight. straight into westerhope the gentlemen then told him to stop the car and just carryed on his journey by foot.
Now that route is a basic route using main roads which anyone wanting to be a driver should know.
I had another custumer complain that a driver again asian OUT OF TOWN didn’t know were Wallsend was!!!! Wallsend!!!! its a f***ing huge place 5 mins from the city centre. They weren’t bothered about directing the driver to the street when he got to wallsend but they expected him to know how to get to the general area.
Now is this the way forward for the trade?.
Yes some OUT OF TOWN drivers will know there way around. And yes some Localy plated drivers won’t but the use of OUT OF TOWN plates what ever the drivers colour or religion is making it easier for any F***ing nugget to get on the road and F*** our regular punters off giving us all a bad name.
On this site the other day I was told to go BUY A SHOP OR CAR WASH, STAND ON THE A1 AND THAT I’M A SAD MAN. SAD MAN!!! why??? because I give a Shit.
There are quit a few members on this site that like me are passionate about what they do. And alough we all have different points of view I look forward to readig what others have to say.
Lets be honest the world would be boring if we all agreed, But I think that most of us can agree that there are TOO MANY TAXIS and far too many nuggets being introduce threw the back door.
@MB 27,
Well said mate loads a punters are now starting to ask for locally licensed drivers and the more that do the better , and no this is not for my financial gains but so we can regain the trust of the general public ! I will job by job be encouraging every fare i pick up from now on to ask for a locally liscenced driver and i will tell all my taxi driver mates (and i have a lot) to be doing the same !
Long live the locallity test and make it bloody harder in my opinion !!!!!!!
Am133
They think they on baywatch with there big yellow top signs, and its always a gupta driving. what happened to working in the curry hoose ?
Reference to Article “Locality Tests”
Is’nt the Female Asian Driver mentioned the Wife of the Driver who carried out the Set Fare to Washington International Airport….Tyne & WEAR???????, apparently Terminal one is just a mile past Washinton services!!!!!!!!
Like I said about Eastcoast, well done for getting shot of him and well done to Central for getting shot of the Missus!!!!!!
If you are reading this site Mrs Asian Driver, pop into Venus Cars, they are a Female only Taxi Office so they say, but I have’nt seen any females yet, just a couple of male refugees and a English bloke driving a white Transit, so you could be in with a chance, if you can’t find the Tunnel, you will be closer to the Tyne Bridge up there pet!, alternatively, you could throw them out at the Millenium Bridge!, and tell them to walk over.
PS I have no problem with Asians before the PC Brigade come out, this is just a bit Banter!
Cheers all
Stephen
@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.), Tyne & Where??
This is the sort of thing that is going to give the whole trade a bad name. But its to late because thanks to berwick council and a the well known North tyneside office that has helped and still suports muppets the bandits are here to stay.
On the other hand the local Authority are still at the top of the food change so why don’t we the localy licenced drivers ask them to state in their operators licences that yes because of the disney land law a hackney can work PH out of their area but the driver must hold the Local authoritys PH badge. That way the operators can’t bulk buy their micky mouse plates and put any of the seven dwarfs behind the wheel without them sitting a Local Knowledge test to prove they at least have half a clue. offices that insist on cross boarder hiring should be delt with in the same way as none of their cars hackney or PH ever seem to head back to their licenced area when they clear.
Dooms day is almost here. so changes need to be made asap.
By Dooms day I mean the begining of the new Super council. The Local authoritys and the genuine localy licenced drivers need to be careful and start planning for the future because the super council will eventualy intise alot of new drivers and already licenced driver loosing newcastle and north tyneside councils so much revenue that the taxi departments will join the super council meaning mass de-regulation and a none exsiting PH badges as we will all be licenced the same. Cant wait to join the rank for the gate on the A69.
Then we will see how many drivers want to stick togeter and try and stop the MICKY AND MINNIE MOUSE PLATES taking over the world or has it gone to far already.
@MB 27, I totally agree with the quote( a hack can work ph out of there area but the driver should hold the local authority ph badge ) but it aint gonna happen!!!!!!!!
@derwentside hack,
why aint it gonna happen!!!!!!!
Is that because nobody gives a shit about the genuine drivers as they believe we are just always going to be here.
Because I believe that if all of the genuine drivers stuck together on at least this one issue we could make enough noise to make it harder for bandits.
@MB 27,
i think some one made a very good point about this the other day. If a newcastle private hire drivers attitude is so bad he is ‘sacked’ from an office, if this trend continues he soon runs out of options or changes his attitude.
however the same guy on an out of town plate could in theory swan off to any other office in the country!
does this alone not sum up the safety aspect of the out of town scenario!
what amazes me is that the private hire have done nothing, say you have a large office, with 200 or so local plates then 80 or so out of town plates, if those guys (who must have forseen the problems it would cause) got together and said, where going on strike untill you agree to not take on anymore out of town plates or get rid of the ones you have, it would have been very interesting to see the offices stance then!
after all, this started and still is a private hire problem, it’s the offices who have taken on a large amount of drivers who should not or are not good enough for the trade. and because of this, the work is drying up, or customers are changing offices!
it became a hackney problem when private hire drivers relised that in order to pay bills they would have to come into the city centres and risk there livelihood picking up illegally, after all we all have bills to pay!
so maybe, instead of the hacks continuing to protest against the council, private hire drivers at a large office should maybe get together and try to get all on board and force the offices hand with a strike, surely even the most stubborn owner would be worried when 3/4 of his workforce left and would not return till demands were met.
@Andy Warhol, wilfy this would never happen as there are too many backstabbers in the trade
i think, corretc if i am wrong, but there is acse going to court to settle that argument once and for all. A council is taking an operator to court to say that they should not be taking on out of town plates, so when this case goes to court it will settle this argument once and for all, lets hope the judge has the nerve to put this to bed once and for all.
but to be hounest by then it wont make a hapeny of difference, the offices have been flooded and this has a knock on effect to the hacks. and by the time any action is taken, all these drivers who can will have other licences and badges for the correct areas. or certaing people at certain offices will continue to exploit the laws and ways to screw the rest of us all in the name of greed!
Shanksy, You have stated on here that Blueline has its own area test to make sure new drivers have a clue, yet on monday when i was paying my bit I over heared a polish lad asking eddy about his mate in Poland who wanted to start at blueline, I was shocked top here eddy say “I only need him to sign the forms” to which the polish lad asked “will he have to come over first” “no” was eddys answere! how can somebody who is not in the country be passed to drive? can he give the “good custmer service at all times” as we keep getting told? or is Eddy getting kick backs from Berwick? maybe you should change “do you know who is taken you home?” to “will he know where he’s going?”
@lost the plot,
because when he gets here he does not go straight on the road !!
he fist completes ten lessons in Hadrian School of motoring for him to let me know the driver is OK on our roads and systems
then Eddie or someone else teach him the basic areas before he goes on the road.
its a good job we do work to what goes through your ears !
@Ian shanks, Ching Ching, thats all your ears here. wonder what your old man would have to say about the state of blue line now and the state its in re ur retarded drivers.
@Brutally_Honest,
what do you go to work for ????
oh and dont let it worry you what my old man would think !
@Ian shanks,
then ian i suggest you sack the hadrian school of motoring, for i have lost count the amount of times i have nearly been wiped out on the central motorway by a berwick plated vehicle of yours watching there tom tom instead of the road and swerving from one lane to the other.
or the black doblo driven by the young (bengali?) lad who drove the wrong way past sallport house and nearly went head into me as i came round from melbourne street! yes that gtoo was a berwick plated vehicle! next time i wont hoy the anchers on!
@Andy Warhol,
just because its a berwick plate does not mean its a foriegn driver !!
and if your telling me holding a newcastle badge makes you a good driver !!! i would suggest you book in for theorpy !!
come on andy your better than that !
@Ian shanks, Yeah I go to work for money, I dont sit waiting for the next juggernaut coming up the A1 to drop me next lot of (HALFWIT) drivers off, you fell into Blueline courtesy of your old man, he done the hard bit now your just sitting back getting richer, so dont mug me about what I go and do a proper days graft for cos you dont know what it is. Maybe you should look up newcastle in the a-z and realise where the boundaries are for north tyneside and how far away Berwick is you plum.
@ian shanks,
i was mearely pointing out that he was, i believe of bengali origins, you dont get any BNP quotes from me!
ok ian is this better, british aisan?
But all i was trying to do was point out some of the ridiculus, and sometimes danagerous driving demonstrated by those on berwick plated vehicles. Normally they are heading away from me so i dont get to look at the driver.
i’m not saying all local plated vehicles are 5 star drivers, cause there not, we’re all guilty of driving a little fast at times, or cutting somebody up by accident, but MOST local plates have knowledge of the roads and have an idea of which lane they are to be in, or which way traffic runs on a street! Not driving round like a tourist in a strange city, should taxi drivers do that in there local areas ian?
therapy? then might you suggest the name of of your psychartrist?
@Ian shanks, what you should be asking yourself is why do you need to do this (limited) training, it will not benifit the customers having a driver with VERY little knowage of the north east, equaly its not much benifit to the driver who will struggel every shift to cover his cost and make money, so he’ll have to work longer hours just to keep his head above water (not very safe for the public have a knackered driver at the wheel, maybe time to drop “investers in passenger safty” logo) the only party to be winning in this situation is the famliy Shanks! £100 rent+ £115 car rent + £40 insurance, maybe a bit house rent as well?
Why do you need to look over seas? why dont local lad want to work at your office?
The whole Berwick scenario Stinks of corruption From Mr Wilson to the people that guided him ,one day it will be exposed so the general public can see,that has to be the lowest point yet if true recruiting sausage rolls(poles) who arnt even in the countrie.
@Ian shanks,
Asian driver Blue Line, Berwick plated 1826,reg. S14 NUR sat outside Madisons 10.45pm til 11.00pm pulled away empty.
Hi Everyone,
How about it from a desk clerks point of view!!!!!!!
GET REAL Mr Shanks!!!!!!!
Training drivers and taking them on the roads a few times a taxi driver doth not make!!!!!!!
How you can even justify what your office is doing to get these drivers on the road is downright rubbish. I have been a desk clerk for a number of years now and I’m not the only one to say that we are sick to death of mollycodling drivers who can’t speak the queens english to a pub with neon signs outside it never mind an obscure address in out of area place!!!!!!!
Stop insulting our intelligence. How your poor staff cope I can’t imagine!!!! And before u say they cope well DON’T BOTHER because I don’t believe you.
Get A GRIP on reality!!!
I want to know my children are getting into a car with not only a properly licenced driver but also someone who knows where they are going and can be understood!
Stop thinking about LSD(no not the drug) and put things into perspective.
Oh and by the way for a seemingly intelligent man your use of the english language is appalling you don@t come from Poland yourself do you? I suppose it would answer a lot of questions if you did!!!!
NO1DESKY!
If you work at a big Office yourself, you must have wrote this in between “Feeding” your favourite Drivers, or if you are female, the Drivers that you are having S**ual encounters with for a Airport return!!!!!!!!
Some of you Guys are often forgot about when we all whinge about the trade!!
Desk Clerks and Dispatchers can really f*5K up a Drivers income!, it’s not fair that someone who is guaranteed a wage (I know small
but..) can determine how much another “Self employed” person earns!
Regards
NO1 “FEEDING” INVESTIGATOR!!!!!!
@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.), Don’t tar every1 with the same brush! As it happens my husband is one of those taxi drivers (and no we don’t work together for that reason). I know how hard it is out there at the minute but lets face it you’ll always have desk clerks who favour certain drivers. Try being nice once in a while you never know it might work! LOL. I’ve been in this trade for a long time now and i totally agree with what you are say! I’m not saying i’m perfect but you hit the nail on the head when
you said I,ve got a guaranteed wage coming in!!!!
Just as well or we would be sunk!!!! I’m on your side when it comes down to it but some drivers haven’t even got the decency to be civil over the radio!
MOTTO: Politeness and courtesy cost nothing try using it
Kind regards
NO1DESKY
@NO1DESKY,
I have never verbally abused a Desk Clerk yet and never will, but I still have’nt been Fed!, if I pick office Staff up when they are not at work, I would never charge them!
If you are so honest, where do you work?
Regards
Stephen
@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.),
You personally may have never verbally abused a desk clerk and to be honest in all the years i’ve worked as one I have rarely been abused myself, purely because I believe in fair play!!! However, there are many out there who do, and it gets very frustrating listening to drivers talk to clerks like they are worthless pieces of s**t!
You will never stop the feeding as no system is infallible, I know i’ve worked on quite a few! It’s wrong and I agree with you 100% but it’s going to happen.
If the owners paid decent wages it may shall we say “Attract a better type of person” who would be less likely to feed certain drivers. And another way of doing this is to keep the drivers away from the office staff thus cutting down the opportunity to merge a friendship or more!!!!!!!
And where I work is irrelevant, suffice to say I have worked in most of the larger town offices at some time, and have very good friends in both the hack and ph trade!
@Stephen (FKA Central Enth.), obviously u been sh@gging a desk clerk and been shafted over.
As a licensed radio operator,on marine and amateur radio,I would just add this comment.
There is never a time or condition under which abusive behaviour,language or any other form of missuse is justified.Drivers behaving in such a fasion run the risk of Ofcom/DTI suspending the radio operators license,then where would you be,with no radio to get work.
Any disagreements should be sorted in the office,and kept off air. If you think I`m winding you up,anyone who wants a copy of the license conditions,let me know,they are free.But think about it,missuse the radio and you could end up with no radio to missuse.
the thing is all of the out of area hacks working newcastle/NT offices do get tarred with the same brush i drove a Ncle hack for 10 years and met alot of ncle hack drivers who didnt have a badge,shared friends cars and a few who didnt even know were the station was and dont forget the strange influx of drivers in ncle hacks at xmas the u never seem to see again.and yes i drive a berwick hack because i want to not because there was no locality test i know my way around very well and when i get around to it i’l transfer to NT badge and plate.but the funny thing is when i left Ncle hacks there was hardly any berwick plates around and Ncle hacking was knackered then as there is far to many to make any kind of decent living.
Also i would like to add that my wife has great issues with ncl hacks as she is disabled in wheel chair and could ot get a hack to take her home after nearly 2 hrs had to get the police to take her home and filed a complaint with ncl licensing and got it investigated alot of people that myself and wife talk to find that they feel safer in a private hire car makes no odds what plate just feels safer as its recorded as alot of young woman have complaind about sexual harrasment of ncl hack drivers, also on a few occasions my wife has made them pull over to let her out as they refussed to show them there badge witch as you all know should be on display at all times, so i feel its about time you should lay of the issues of berwick hacks and look at the real reasons why this is happening.
@Ex-Ncle Hack,
Spot on there!
Those NODA Doblo’s hate taking Wheelchairs, they should have their Plates removed, you would think by now some “Disability Rights group” would be on to them!
Six Wheelchair Hacks refused to take a young Lass in a Wheelchair back to North Shields Christmas week, no wonder there is so many NT Cars in Town!
Stephen
@Ex-Ncle Hack,
sorry mate but I believe the out of town plates is the biggest issue regarding the taxi and PH trade in newcastle.
Without the out of town plates and the cars and offices from all surrounding boroughs sitting in the city the newcastle trade would improve massivley.
If cars are wanting to work in newcastle get a badge and sit the test its not hard. Then go to a newcastle office instead of using the back door by getting an out of town badge and going to offices that exploit the cross boarder shite.
I agee with what your saying about the newcastle wheel chair plates and the drivers working other peoples cars with other peoples badges but if that is going on and the hack drivers know then they should say somethink about it.
Alot of drivers like to hear their own voice in a car park but when it comes down to it they are shity arses and wont move out from the crowd. When I was young I was told to stand up tall, keep me head high and always stand us for what I believe in and I think that alot of drivers should start to do the same
FOR MR SHANKS.
COME ON MR SHANKS LET US KNOW WAS REG BG05 RJU FLIMPING OR DOES HE HAVE THE CONTRACT FOR THE FLAME GRILL ON THURSDAY NIGHT, FRIDAY MORNING PAST.I AWAIT YOUR REPLY.THANK YOU.
@NEWCASTLE HACK,
the job before was picking up at aspers to gatehead
then at 3am magic flame to fenham
he then went to blue velvet for a pick up
is this about the time you are talking about ????
@Ian shanks, THANKS FOR THE REPLY MR SHANKS.BUT THE TIME WAS 01.15 hrs THE PHOTO HAS BEEN ON HALLOF FAME SINCE THAT NIGHT & WE KNOW HE DID FLIMP A JOB.AND KEPT RETURNING TO THE FLAME GRILL. ALL SO COULD YOU TELL ME IF THE ASIAN DRIVER YOU SACKED FOR FLIMPING DRIVES THE AUDI A4 REG-RNO5 ODV
Basically Shanksy is a curry lover.
newcastle hack
at the time you now mention
he picked up at 00.40 mc donalds grianger st for kerry to fenham
then at the dog and parrot for rhona to heaton
then wilkinsons for jackson to benwell
so he maywell of beeen seen in the area you talk about if the passengers had moved pick up piont a little bit ????
Newcastle Hack- i watch the black Audi A4 and he was the 1 Ian sacked, he now works and flimps for 5 star after a short spell at ACE, his car is a derwent plated one nd he drives like a maniac, i saw him drive over the path at the lights on Brighton grove/Studley tce/Nuns moor road just this week, i think hes called Vin Diesel coz he drives Too Fast n Too Furious!
Just making a few random points after reading comments above; Is it just me or do drivers not think that feeding is actively encouraged by some operators in order to keep their rental cars busy enough to pay the weekly fee, it could be paranoia but i know alot of owner drivers who share this belief. Also, has anyone noticed that a recently established N/T office advertises on flyers that all their drivers are N/T licenced, yet it has at least one berwick plated vehicle working from it that i have seen. And last of all, i couldn’t begin to count how many of my customers have complained to me about polish BLT drivers not having a basic knowledge of the local area. Some have told me that the driver has requested them to write down the post code on a piece of paper so they could transfer that into their sat-nav, i can only assume that these were berwick licenced drivers. Their was one who didn’t know where chillingham rd was when directed to head their from the coast rd. I realise that passing the knowledge test set by N/T council doesn’t mean that drivers know every single street etc. but it does require the applicant to put in a bit of research and make an effort, thus providing the minimum standard to achieve. Some experienced drivers have chosen to go to berwick council because they are sick of being screwed by local authorities, i sort of understand that, but office owners should take some amount of moral responsibility and stop sh*****g on the lads/lasses who got them where they are today and remember who pays THEIR wages. Surely there’s enough local badges to line their pockets.
Regarding Foreign F*ckers, Berwick plates or any other out of town crap i had and incident with a Gateshead licensed Felling driver turning right onto Gosforth High Street from Ivy Road where it clearly says NO RIGHT TURN, i sounded my horn to notify him of his error, but to my horror i was given a load of abuse then he shot out of the junction then noticed the pedestrian crossing was on RED and stopped with his pope mobile (doblo) over the white line nearly knocking someone down. Is it me or does a NO RIGHT TURN in India, Pakistan or what ever country he came from mean something else, i don’t think so it’s pricks like him that give us a bad name.
@Brian N. Peterson, or every hack that turns rigth up the big market!!!! pricks
Sadly Brian the taxi trade is heavily influenced by the ethnic minority and sadly they drag the whole trade down, it is a very sad state of affairs.
In an ideal world every council should have to make applicants sit an extensive locality test. It would solve alot of these problems. That is, of course, unless you want to get your granny’s hatch-back plated and only need to have it tested localy on behalf of some distant council once a year. And who’s gonna check if you haven’t. It’s bloody hard to read details of a taxi plate when it’s desplayed in the rear window. If your lucky you can even select the Berwick hack tarrif on your meter to make a few more quid.
Why is is these out of town plates drive round with the plate in the rear window and dont have a top sign is that not illegal.
Having the plate in the window is illegal as far as I know but not having a top sign is just against the council rules and not illegal.
It is not just out of town cars that don’t have top signs, I have seen a few Newcastle hacks working without a top sign on.
The reason they display plates in their back windows is because there’s nobody to tell them not to. It should be the local authority’s job to keep a check on them but they don’t work in the area of their local authority, i.e. berwick etc. The police may occasionaly pull them, but they’ve got bigger fish to fry so probably ignore it alot of the time. Locally plated cars get random kirb side checks by the council but the bandits are exactly that, a law unto themselves.
I have just read the article and all the comments. I must say – the taxi trade is in a very dire state.
I can put my hand up and admit to saying that I was going to apply for a berwick plate myself – but decided not to quite a long time ago. And to be perfectly honest -I’m glad I didnt.
I’m now revising my locality test to sit my for my hack badge for newcastle.
racist’s
i wonder what the licencing team would think of your comments. Some of you really need to open your eyes and maybe read up on discrimination, which private hire drivers must not discriminate against disability colour or race etc
@knightrider, Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the act of bringing the issue of race or racism into a debate, perhaps to obfuscate the matter. It is a metaphorical reference to card games in which a trump card may be used to gain an advantage.
Should people be quiet, when something is wrong within the trade, just because the person involved is ‘different’ in some way. There are many good ethnic drivers,who are probably just as dismayed when any driver who can’t find the Tyne Tunnel is allowed a badge.I know Asian Drivers who could be classed as more ‘local’ than me but I also know drivers of all races & creeds who should not be badged. So tell me how discussing any drivers’ failings on here can be in any way construed as ‘Rascist’! Licensing can look at these comments as much as they like and most probably do,it’s an open forum.It’s also interesting that everytime someone mentions rascism to me they are always white.If you have a genuine grievance of a rascist nature,explain it but don’t come here and make comments about rascism with no basis. I would always look into anything put here that could be offensive, infact I have over 100 comments which have been disallowed due to offensive content.
@Admin, COMMENT OF THE WEEK BY ADMIN. Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the act of bringing the issue of race or racism into a debate, perhaps to obfuscate the matter. It is a metaphorical reference to card games in which a trump card may be used to gain an advantage.
Should people be quiet, when something is wrong within the trade, just because the person involved is ‘different’ in some way. There are many good ethnic drivers,who are probably just as dismayed when any driver who can’t find the Tyne Tunnel is allowed a badge.I know Asian Drivers who could be classed as more ‘local’ than me but I also know drivers of all races & creeds who should not be badged. So tell me how discussing any drivers’ failings on here can be in any way construed as ‘Rascist’! Licensing can look at these comments as much as they like and most probably do,it’s an open forum.It’s also interesting that everytime someone mentions rascism to me they are always white.If you have a genuine grievance of a rascist nature,explain it but don’t come here and make comments about rascism with no basis. I would always look into anything put here that could be offensive, infact I have over 100 comments which have been disallowed due to offensive content.
young hack – you must be extremely stupid to want to be part of the taxi business.do you not take in what you read on these pages
i have recieved my driver badge from berwick but i did nt realise that you can only drive cars plated up from berwick is this correct went to a north tyneside office to work but say i cant because of the above is this true?
how do i change to a north tyneside badge what is the cost and how long will it take??? will i need to do a locality test
@stu, Phone North Tyneside taxi Licensing, 0191 6432165, Monday morning they will tell you all you need to know.
thanks for visiting TooManyTaxis.com
You guys aint racist r u ?
@BOB, Bob you are welcome here but anyone who comes to play the racist card will be banned, however they choose to go about it.
I personly know some drivers who have passed knowledge and locality test in durham including me but we still dont have a clue about the area..One more thing some of local lads who also sat tests there same time as me it was either their 2nd or 3test and they been in trade for years the only reason why they had2 do it was bcoz they didnt renew thier badge on time while i passed both tests 1st go,,wot does that say about locals and english lads esp those who dont pass knowledge,now knowlege test is just common sence and if you dont pass that 1st or 2nd time den am afraid your 2 thik 2 b in any job!!!!
hi there,
do u provide some training or help to pass Locality test
f***in racist cun*, white drivers are worst!