So I've been driving a taxi for a little while now, I thought I'd make a thread and see if anyone is curious about what I do. I'm a 20 year old dude and I drive around Perth, Western Australia.



So right now, the day driver went away over christmas, so I've had the taxi at mine and I'm giving it a going-over. I gave the steelies a fresh lick of paint and started diagnosing a creak coming from the back end, once that's done it's time for a wash and then I'm back on the road.







Also merry christmas, right-side-up friends

 

Have you been asked to "follow that car" yet?

 

you do the work on the taxi?



I would think it would be a pretty interesting job.

 

What percentage of your passengers are either currently drunk, or planning on being drunk?

 

Not really. I've had a couple of hairy pickups from parties where the other drivers want to do 20 over the whole way - I guess they don't make the connection that having a licence = income.





Not officially, I lease this car off the owner. However the owner is lazy/stingy and there was a bunch of stuff that needed doing - the car was making embarrassing/worrying noises so I thought I'd better investigate.





Over 90% of them I would say. Taxis here are so bloody expensive that people rarely take them unless they have to.

 

That's about what I figured. I've only ever gotten a taxi if I was already or was going to be drunk.

 

Have you ever had someone try to ditch out the car and not pay?



Taxi for me=crazy times! Made a chick take a cab to meet me somewhere she didn't have any money; I told her to jump out down the street. Didn't work the driver took her to her house where she gave him a DVD player for payment. And one 420 night got kicked out of a house with a shotgun in my face. Didn't have enough money to make it home. The driver was cool took what we had and got us home.

 

^dick

 

^ you think so?

 

In Korea we may have tipped the tab driver 20 bucks if they beat another cab back to base... for a 3 dollar cab ride. Probably not the brightest thing ever. I did find out that a Sonata > Kia Magnus.



Next question. The internet tells me people get it on in the back of cabs all the time.. well certain sites do. Any truth to that?