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.

Taxi Pete and fellow Sherwood regular Trev were booked on a mini bus to go to PNE’s away match at Scunthorpe. The bus was booked for 3PM at the Withy Trees pub and Pete told me he had to be there for 1:30PM because Trev didn’t like being late. Aye, I’m sure that’s the only reason they turned up so [...]

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.

What a horrendous night that was! Town was full of very drunk people and idiots hell bent on finding confrontation. I had one ‘customer’ who talked to his mate for the whole journey home, about how he was going knock out a guy’s teeth the next time he saw him, and when I got them home he started to verbally [...]

I’d just dropped off at the top end of Ingol and was heading back to town; while I was passing a bus stop full of town bound people I announced on the CB that I’d not had a bus stop flag down for months. One of the other drivers replied that he was carrying customers that had flagged him down [...]