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Money never seems to be the motivation in taxi driver murders. The scum just want someone to kill.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-59753723 On the other hand maybe not.

The seat belt exemption is a bit strange. As a hack driver I never have to wear a belt, even without a passenger but a PH driver is only exempt when he's POB. Due to the fitment of seat belt chimes in modern saloon cars about 80% of PH lads in my area wear a belt. Only those few remaining Mk4 Mondeo drivers who could disable the chimes are driving around like real men. Hack drivers are different though. I only know of about ten in my area who listened to the advice from Jimmy Saville and of those eight drive new Ford Tourneo hacks where the buzzer can't be bypassed. I know of only two TX drivers who clunk click. Pretty much all murders of taxi drivers go unsolved. Crimewatch has a few reconstructions of them on YouTube. There were the Heathrow minicab murders of Stephen Sylvester in his tasty early Mk3 Cortina XL and an Asian part time driver stabbed to death in his HC Viva. It looks like plod made a breakthrough in the murder of Steve Johnson who was killed when driving his Mk2 Cavalier diesel hack back in 1990. https://highgear.co.uk/police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-1990-hanley-taxi-driver-murder.htm

One interesting question is do I feel safer driving a hack fitted with a partition and bandit screen as opposed to a Mondeo PH car? I find that a punter riding in the back of a hack feels safer giving the driver some verbal shit as he knows that the driver can't reach over and give him a slap. Due to the fact that the sliding doors on my E7 are a little tricky to close this stops most punter abuse as the know I'll be getting in and out of the cab to let them in and out so they'll have to deal with me face to face. In all my years of driving a PH car I wasn't attacked once.

A street hail or rank job is almost always cash and if it isn't then I have a chip and pin card reader that's linked to my bank. I also work for a local PH firm where about half of the work is paid by the passenger via the firm's app. The app jobs used to be a pain in the arse as it took us up to a week to get paid for them but now any job I get where the punter has paid with their bank card registered on the app gets put into a seperate Revolut bank account at 3.30am everyday. In many ways that's better than cash. Hospital account work is a mixed bag. If I'm covering a normal private hire hospital job then it's paid at a fixed price reduced rate. Specific hack hospital jobs are paid at a higher rate. Last week I had a 4am hospital job from a nursing home needing a wheelchair vehicle. Whoever ordered that must have had a massive wank when the job was covered as I'm the only hack out at that time and wasn't at the airport. Non-payers are very few and far between. I catch about half of them and that makes it all worthwhile.

Yet I used to think that they were spacious compared to the Fairway!

Earlier this week I wired in a new Bluetooth radio into a TX4 belonging to a mate. I can't believe how cramped they are for the driver! Did I really used to do a twelve hour shift in similar TX1/2s? I honestly felt like I was behind the wheel of a Morris Minor!

A taxi lamp on the roof means that it's licenced as a hackney. Maybe he disconnects the speedo cable for nine months of the year?

Or had a HMRC haircut before every inspection.

https://www.one2car.com/en/for-sale/lti-tx1-bangkok-metropolitan-ratchadaphisek-huai-khwang-lat-phrao-phetchaburi/7617276 WTF???

How old is it?

Don't try to flatter me. You're the half of the writing team with a gift for words!

Haven't you got some writing to be getting on with?

https://www.vehiclerepoweringsolutions.com/new-cabs-for-sale

I'm trying to persuade Claim_Intended to tag along.

That's truly beautiful!

The Kia Sportage is the beat car of choice her on Merseyside.

This. In 2023 a bailiff uplifting a car to cover a debt is pretty unusual due to modern immobilisers making boosting a car from a debtor a tricky task. This is why a bailiff will usually clamp the motor instead and use that as a negotiating tool.

I'm sure that this has something to do with the chip supply problem affecting car production. If BMW have a waiting list for cars with buyers willing to pay full retail then it makes no sense to flog 530D estates to the police for £15000 each.

We had a Citi Golf go through the auction I drove for. Ford Corcel anyone?

He's AS through and through!

I hope you remember to black up as well?

That outfit would get you lynched over on TDW.

Especially the hair.

We can start a game of football in no man's land.