Hello everybody, I hope you are well and earning enough.
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you think that everybody has either gone mad or is out to get you? Well thats what this week has been like for me. It started on Monday eve/Tuesday morning when nearly every punter that hailed me [...]

Hi everyone, this Wednesday the traffic in town was bad, I picked up two ladies in brook st, on the corner east of New Bond St and they wanted to go to Charring X Stn, my only way was to head towards Hanover Sq, normally you would turn right down St George Street but it’s [...]

Hello everybody I hope you are all well and earning enough.
I have been back at work for a week and a bit and the “kipper season” has certainly arrived! I know it happens every year but it always takes me by surprise,maybe when I’ve been driving a cab for another 10 years I’ll get [...]

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas and new year, as you probably well know by now I spent my Xmas and new year in Brazil,there was only one regret and that was it didn’t last long enough, now my batteries are charged, I’m ready to put in a few hours overtime,if only [...]

Hello everybody I hope you are all well and earning enough. I have just recieved the new mini cab,sorry Taxi driver ID markers that I’m supposed to fit in the front and rear windows of my cab and I can’t help feeling that they look very much like the identifying badges that are fitted in [...]

Hi there everybody I hope you are all well and earning enough. I’ll start by wishing you all a Happy new year and hope it’s a bit easier than last year to earn a living.
It’s been a while since I last posted on here and as Steve has decided to take a bit of time [...]

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
Every black-cab driver in central London has to have “The Knowledge” — a memorized map of the capital, including some 25,000 streets and thousands of landmarks, right down to the order of theaters on Shaftesbury Avenue.
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It’s a brutal learning process that can take three to four years to complete, with a [...]

I always put my intercom on when reaching destination, no different this time. except my punter turns it off, this happened four times, she then says your intercom is faulty, I says no its not and explained what she did,  it took a while to sink in. I  just pulled over anyway and asked where [...]

Black cab drivers were today divided over demands to charge passengers 20 per cent extra during next summer’s Olympics and Paralympics.
A group representing about 2,000 drivers has attacked the main trade body’s claim that cabbies would be “encouraged” to work during the Games if they could earn more.
The Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association claimed that up [...]

London cabbies have done it again.
This is the second time the ( UCG)  United Cabbies group have arranged taxi’s for transporting War veterans to the cenotaph in Whitehall.
There were so many cabs that they had to have a double queue, it stretched from the centre of Westminster bridge all the way back to Lambeth Palace [...]