warren t claim

When I was learning to drive back in '87 one local instructor trading under the name of REW School Of Motoring used to teach in a '76 Mk2 Escort complete with ladders on the roof for his second job window cleaning. I suppose that was the equivalent of your pre facelift Focus guy.

It's not as if you're going to be putting in a full shift behind the wheel though?

She only had a broken leg and needed transport home. What's your policy on securing wheelchairs?

In my TX thread on here, I gave details of a £550+ job taking a wheelchair punter to South West London. Apparently I'm cheaper than an ambulance.

The TX is utterly wank in the snow. And that's coming from someone who's owned six cylinder Capris and E21 BMWs!

£650 iirc. Easy Jet were going to reimburse them apparently. For an airport in a capital city, Edinburgh is a dump and resembles a National Express coach depot. We've got our local train contract too. As well as that we've got other stuff like providing onward travel for the AA and RAC.

My longest 7 passenger job therefore with someone in the E7 jump seat. He didn't complain once!

The TX4 has a different rear suspension to the 1&2.

Liverpool won't plate any cab for a front seat passenger although over the Mersey my council will. The black TX was plated for six but the blue only five. Some E7s have a proper front passenger seat but others, like mine, only have a jump seat in the front.

A dead TX is worth about £400 here.

I can assure you that the novelty will wear off in a few days. Are you plated for five or six?

My E7 does fuckloads of overnight airport runs.

We had a couple of Vauxhall /Suzuki Agila things plated 15 years ago. We used to have a simple 4 wheels, 4 seats and 45" between the rear door handles rule but nowadays anyone wanting to plate a car of a type that's never been licenced before in the borough they have to submit the car to the licencing panel for their approval. My MG6 had to go through this along with my Ioniq as they were the first of their type to get licenced. Sometimes this backfires. A junior licencing officer handed out a plate for a Toyota CH-R without checking if one had been licenced before. This means that although the CH-R doesn't meet local regs anyone can plate one now.

Nope. Just one of a few nominated local MOT testing stations.

When I was a bike instructor taking a punter for a 3.27pm test I'd have to endure sitting in the waiting room with an assortment of driving instructors due to the local cafe closing at 3pm. They'd all chat amongst themselves after the usual comments about wishing that they could take two punters out at once treating me like the second class citizen that in all fairness I am. This left me time to peruse the various DSA notices stuck to the wall. I remember reading that any instructor using a Pug 206 for a test had to provide written proof from Peugeot that said 206 had been in for a critical safety recall. Another notice stated that any car with pens in the air vents will be refused a test. Arnold Shark pay as you go dual control rental cars are not an acceptable vehicle for a test either along with any car fitted with an electric handbrake. As you can imagine, when I rocked up with my pupil to see that the examiner was using his car that day my heart jumped for joy as he'd usually invite me along with him to moan about the job/his marriage/ask to see pics of my ex in lingerie that I had on my phone.

Are you sure it was a ZX? The early Xantia has a drivers seat that cripples me after a few miles. TX1,2&4 driver comfort varies from cab to cab. The black TX I've mentioned had a great seat but the tilt adjustment was jammed in the wrong position for me. The later blue TX had a pretty shagged out seat but I could get more comfy behind the wheel as all the adjustments still worked. Although banned in Liverpool about six years ago, fitting a Volvo drivers seat was commonplace back in the day. Would you not be better off looking for a car fitted with cruise control? No TX ever came equipped with it.

1760 miles so far, yes it's been a quiet couple of shifts. One EML huccup from a hot start earlier cured by a quick engine on/off. Cruise control working again. Discovered curry hooks in the boot. I'm not sure if Furious Driving has ever reviewed an MG6 but if he wants to try one then best leave it until just before Valentine's Day as it's got the sort of tea shelf that'll give him a diamond cutter hard on that Mrs Furious can enjoy later.

Vehicular confidence level has increased to putting £16 in the tank at a time.

You do have a manual licence, don't you?

My trader's policy has demo drive cover.

It's a manual. Go to a cab garage and ask to test drive a decommissioned cab?

I sincerely hope this is a rental and not a buy.

And still VM powered??????