Well what a relief the students are back, I can tell you. It’s been a long hard summer without them, and we’ve not had much sunny weather to brighten up an otherwise miserable holiday season. Speaking of holidays, I didn’t even manage to get one this year due to a number of factors, one being the fact that Mrs Taxi [...]

2010 has been a difficult year for me financially; the recession bit very hard into my takings, my best customer found love and now hardly goes out any more, and fuel prices rocketed. Personally, 2010 has been cruel too, with an immediate family member being diagnosed with cancer, and the subsequent fear & upset within my own home. On the [...]

I’m pleased to hear through the Lancashire Evening Post about the Tithebarn Project getting the go-ahead from the Government, although it has not yet been officially confirmed. I like all the other cabbies, know too well that our city centre is in need of new investment. Currently the area of the Tithebarn is in a mess with rundown buildings and [...]

I did a bit of overtime Sunday daytime to fund an evening out with my brother that night. Town was quite busy due to the Liverpool versus Man Utd match being shown in the pubs, but there was also an atmosphere that can only be described as edgy. I don’t think I’ve ever swapped allegiance from team to team as [...]

I don’t know what’s happened this year, but the student work is nowhere near as good as the two previous years I’ve been a taxi driver. I’ve had another rubbish week, with the vast majority of my jobs being tiny little ones;  I’m not alone either, some of the other drivers have had a poor two weeks too and they [...]

I’ve just had a runner from the cab, it was actually quite funny the way he did it, but I still have to pursue it with the police as the lad stole off me in this incident. The job was a phone call from my regulars Luke & Dan; they wanted picking up from town and taken to Bamber Bridge [...]

I’ve not had a traffic related rant in a while, so I thought it was about time I vented my frustrations once again through this blog. This time I’m talking about the very pathetic Lightfoot Lane Garstang Road traffic lights. My God they’re annoying.

I have a bunch of girls from Euxton who ring me for a taxi once a week; every time I go to pick them up they’re already half drunk. They’re a good bunch really, they head to The Warehouse which is Preston’s premier nightspot for alternative/rock music, and I even used to go there myself back in the day.