Where are the most miserable cab drivers?
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Saundersfoot
Posts: 716
Where are the most miserable cab drivers?
Tampa International airport takes some beating for me. No talk, just grunts and they never never crack a smile. Is this typical or have I just been unlucky?
Edit; Sorry mods, meant to put this in Travel Buzz!
Edit; Sorry mods, meant to put this in Travel Buzz!
#2
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: in a cabin
Posts: 6,522
No problem, thread moved
NYC does have a fair amount of grumpy cab drivers around. Occasionally I run into some hilarious drivers though.
Paris has a fair share of less friendly drivers too
M%€&E! F#s de P&/! etc... I once saw a guy give the finger to a cab driver in the Port Malliott roundabout. The cabbie jumped out and wanted to settle with his fists. Quite normal apparently
NYC does have a fair amount of grumpy cab drivers around. Occasionally I run into some hilarious drivers though.
Paris has a fair share of less friendly drivers too
M%€&E! F#s de P&/! etc... I once saw a guy give the finger to a cab driver in the Port Malliott roundabout. The cabbie jumped out and wanted to settle with his fists. Quite normal apparently
#6
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MCI
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Burbank Airport seems to have contracted with a cab company that hires from only one national origin. Never mind what it is; my intent is not to bash the ethnic group. I should have been more concerned, though, when I told the driver I wanted to go to a particular Marriott and he asked if I had directions. He got on the road and called the dispatcher; they had several lengthy discussions in their native language and I wasn't even sure if we were on the right road as I watched the toll mount up. Finally, in desperation, I pulled out my newly-issued Blackberry to see if it had a GPS. It had enough technology to list directions from BUR to the hotel and I determined that we were on the right road and told him what exit to take.
Shortly after that he stopped at a gas station to ask directions and we got to the hotel soon after that.
How in the heck do companies get a contract when their drivers don't know where the hotels are and they're more comfortable dealing in a language other than English? I probably don't want to know.
Shortly after that he stopped at a gas station to ask directions and we got to the hotel soon after that.
How in the heck do companies get a contract when their drivers don't know where the hotels are and they're more comfortable dealing in a language other than English? I probably don't want to know.
#9
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: BUR/LAX
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Burbank Airport seems to have contracted with a cab company that hires from only one national origin. Never mind what it is; my intent is not to bash the ethnic group. I should have been more concerned, though, when I told the driver I wanted to go to a particular Marriott and he asked if I had directions. He got on the road and called the dispatcher; they had several lengthy discussions in their native language and I wasn't even sure if we were on the right road as I watched the toll mount up. Finally, in desperation, I pulled out my newly-issued Blackberry to see if it had a GPS. It had enough technology to list directions from BUR to the hotel and I determined that we were on the right road and told him what exit to take.
Shortly after that he stopped at a gas station to ask directions and we got to the hotel soon after that.
How in the heck do companies get a contract when their drivers don't know where the hotels are and they're more comfortable dealing in a language other than English? I probably don't want to know.
Shortly after that he stopped at a gas station to ask directions and we got to the hotel soon after that.
How in the heck do companies get a contract when their drivers don't know where the hotels are and they're more comfortable dealing in a language other than English? I probably don't want to know.
#13
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: MEL
Programs: QF, VA, VN, BA, SQ, KC - all reds and blues.
Posts: 3,205
LCY - the airport is half an hour's drive out of the city so most drivers who take people there end up waiting for a fare back. Trouble is, it takes an hour of queuing to get a fare and most of the fares are pretty local - just to Canary Wharf or suchlike. Then the choice is to wait in one of the giant queues at Canary Wharf or resign yourself to the long journey back into the city centre. You seldom get into a taxi at LCY to find a happy driver.