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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- This crazy Monday! I grab some amazing food at an iconic cabman's shelter, take a trip out to the Cutty Sark, and my day ends on a high! #hackneycarriage #blackcab #taxidriver #cabmanshelters
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Probably one of the most interesting varied taxi videos ive watched, not predictable at all , well done mark
Thanks buddy, appreciate your support
interesting way from Knightsbridge to the Hammersmith flyover. I might have to give it a try next time. But I am on a bike, so congestion is a smaller issue for me than for you.
I currently avoid it via Paddington flyover ;-)
Unbelievable knowledge. From a new Glasgow cabbie!
Nice 1 again Guvnor👍👍 that bacon and egg roll looked good 😋.Good to see you looking well👌Be lucky mate .....
Yep feeling better now and getting back into the swing of things, thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@Marktaxi 👍👍
Surely Waterloo for Wimbledon…. Unless they were going via Tube
Yes they wanted the tube, thanks for watching
Love your vids Mark, starting the knowledge this year, I’m super inspired 👍🏻💪🏻👌🏻
Great vid Mark 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great video Mark👍🏻
Great day, great vid, congrats.
Hi mark nice to see your back to your old self looking better then well great video very entertaining thank you be lucky 😂
Very nice little earner!
Your comment about the flag issue doesn't surprise me considering who it came from , absolute tool , great video as always , keep up the good work , cheers
How times have changed..those cabs look so good with all the gizmos etc..i watched carry on cabbie last week...all open at the side where the cases go!.. great vid again...
I drove one of those Austin FX3 ,for 5yrs in the 1960s . No heating, cold draft coming through the luggage side window.No windscreen washers ,I had a plastic squeezy bottle that reached round and squirted the windscreen with.In those days I liked the cab ,I knew no different.
Very kind driver not charging Heathrow dropping off fees 😀
I know right! Totally forgot about it 🤦
@@Marktaxi make sure you pay the parking otherwise you will get hit like i did new years eve took me nieghbour to Heathrow didnt charge her for droppimg of then went home and totally forgot cost me ...
Am I one of the only drivers that doesn't charge the drop off fee😅
Most drivers don’t as it happens just hope for a tip ❤
I'd like to eat at a shelter but they all close after lunch.
That’s true! And a bit annoying
The Harry's job just curious what do you do about price when that happens Mark?
Depends if the punter has the hump. I would usually have offered a couple of quid off
Well I’d actually stopped the meter! So I just carried on the journey heading west to Harrods. If you do stop the meter the time element of the journey is halted and only the distance is measured for some reason.
This will be todays lunchtime viewing in a couple of hours. Great stuff. I'm wandering if you say crazy cats in this one ? Lol.
Yes I did! Hope you enjoyed it
@Marktaxi yes indeedy. I used to watch Tom the taxi driver. Since his tfl telling off his channel hasn't been the same so I don't watch it anymore. Would love asmr full journeys on the odd journey.
Never know. Maybe I'll hail you one day.
New glasses! I miss the old distinctive ones. But still stylish 😊
My reserve pair, left the big ones at home by mistake. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Nice not sure if I could do it 😊
You can do it!
I live in Greenwich and I always take the A202 through Peckham. There's a bus lane almost all the way and if it's really bad, you can turn off left and take the small streets across to the A200.
(A202 from Vauxhall is New Camberwell Road, then Peckham Hifh Street and Queen's Road, you end up on the A2/New Cross Road and then you can take Greenwich High Road (30mph limit!))
Gotta be honest I hadn’t been down there for so long I put it in mapping just to see what it came up with, I’m always wary of not knowing the road closures and road works in an area I haven’t been to for months. Anyway it was nice to go back again
@@Marktaxi I'm fairly sure it's about a half mile further, but there's usually loads less traffic
Seems a bit petty with the flags
Hi Mark. Glad to see you looking well. The "no flag" rule seems peculiar in light of what you said about the display of other "non UK" flags. Perhaps the new government will remedy that & etc... I had no idea how large the interior of the cab was until you showed it at the beginning.
Seats 6! Unlike 5 with the old tx. I jumped into a tx 4 last year and it felt tiny!
I dont know if youve done this yet but it would be great to join a New York taxi driver for a day - it would be interesting to see the contrast - ' busman's holiday' ?
I might be doing that this year!
Hi mark you are Londons greatest showman of them all go for it mark ali walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall
Love you videos Mark . I was a London taxi driver up until the pandemic and haven’t driven since . Your videos are giving me the itch to get back in the saddle . At least part time .
Any advice about road changes etc.
I went back after five years been driving again for nearly two years a lot has changed no left no right, new office blocks speed limit ect ,and I found the traffic is worse than before, good luck.
@@johnfox570 cheers John . Can’t see me coming back full time but the couple of weekends a month would be good . All the best mate
Lots of changes but you’ll get used to them after a couple of outings! It’s busy at the moment tbh and London needs you! thanks for watching
@@Marktaxi I had over a year off in the 80s , if I didn't know a new club in the evening I used to say I was a day driver,if I didn't know a new office block I would say I was usually a night driver.lol. It saved a lot of arguments
Hi mark well done you keep it up you are doing a great job and having fun making some brilliant videos superstar Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall keep it up Londons greatest showman 😢😮😅😊
Thanks so much 🙏🏻
Great video Mark, really enjoyed this one!
I think you mentioned in a previous video that you work to a daily target. Would be curious to know roughly how many hours a week you end up doing?
Good question! I’ll look into that and maybe do a video on it. Thanks for watching
18%i left when they were on 10%
Wish I did what you did! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
5:10 Prices look very reasonable for London
And really tasty! Fiver for coffee and that massive roll
I am not calling you out but you can get the Thameslink train from Kings Cross to Wimbledon :) . Enjoying the videos though.
True but much further away in the wrong direction, plus more expensive journey in cab when victoria is nearer
Thanks for watching, they just wanted the tube in the end.
Just wondering mark, wouldn't you run prescott street all the way down the embankment? I always enjoy your videos because it gives me new ideas on how to run some fares.
Can do! It’s definitely an option, need to use trinity sq to get out. Like so many journeys there is always more than one way. Thanks for watching
What do cabbies mean when they say comply by ... . Does that mean take the first exit, or go straight over?
It means turn or navigate as directed, definitely Heinz ketchup cabbies would go nuts if it wasn’t. Thanks for watching
@@Marktaxi 😅 thanks for the reply
I can see why the taxi apps block you for not accepting jobs as there is nothing worse as a customer waiting and failing to get a ride booked. But could be worse, up in Glasgow no one accepts app jobs, they are too busy kerb crawling doing jobs off the meter for hugely inflated prices which I recently noticed after a sell out gig at Hampden Park.
@@ThatLeeNoble Accepting then cancelling is unacceptable. Not accepting a job that’s offered to you that’s 3 miles away with a drive in time of 20 minutes is acceptable, customers nearly always cancel if they have to wait over 3 minutes! And I don’t get paid fuel costs for driving to the customer. When I work off the street the customer is already there.
Exact reason why I don't bother with nonsense apps behaving rubbish
Another interesting video Mark. Glad you’re keeping well 👍ps do you take any money off the fair if that happens?
You mean the Harry’s restaurant job?
@@Marktaxi yeah mate.
Something I've been meaning to ask for a while. What do you mean when you say "comply"? I tried a dictionary search and Google search and it didn't seem to make much sense in this context, so I have been quite confused!
Essentially if it is a right turn only, he turns right, complying with road traffic’s laws.
Yes as above, turn and navigate as directed. Thanks for watching
When you want to stretch the legs how easy is it to find a place to park in central
If you can get on a charger or a rest rank it’s fairly straight forward. Lots of options available. Green huts are really good to park up at, but make sure you buy something from them, it’s good to support these iconic shelters
Free now, jokers, left them ages ago
Himsrk its like we are sitting with you in the great black cab 🌄 ali walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall
Thanks buddy! Always love your channel support 🙏🏻
I used to work as a courtesy car driver for the Wimbledon tennis you can see their cars are out on the road now as Wimbledon is on ever consided it Mark mind it doesn't pay as much as your job of course
Yep this week I’ve seen loads, they all have the racket emblem on the side, also they’ve started using Range rovers I see. Thanks for watching
@@Marktaxi yes they been using Land rover for quite awhile now and Jaguar too one of the benefits is you get a pass for the grounds so can get to watch a lot of tennis
Just like to inform you Waterloo is the station you need for wimbledon not Victoria as you said in video
They wanted the district line, thanks for watching
that ketchup in that bacon bap looked very plastic. I wish more cafes would use proper ketchup
Definitely Heinz cabbies wouldn’t stand for anything less, thanks for watching
Get rid of the mayor
I retired 22yrs ago. Sloane Sq to Waterloo, Eaton Sq, Lwr Grosvenor Place , Buck Pal Rd , Birdcage Walk , Westminster Bridge , sorted. It's ridiculous what routes have to be taken now. So much for cutting down emissions.
Yep Eaton square is the way unfortunately the gas works have closed that off so I was forced through Pimlico. Thanks for watching
So the woman in the cab man shelter doesn’t wear gloves while making the sandwich? 😑
Your hands are often cleaner if they are washed regularly. Gloves often are worse as you can't clean them and are unlikely to change them regularly.
@@bigman5125 I worked in a sandwich shop when I was 16 and I had to change gloves every 20 minutes. It was what the manager wanted.
What a joke .. get blocked for accepting… you accept whatever you like to
Agreed! It’s like being treated like a child
No English flags under Mayor Khan , who would have thought eh ?
How on earth can a London Cabbie not fly the English flag? Disgrace.
I bet flying a Palestine flag would be allowed though.
I don't use freenow much now because they think it's clever to keep blocking drivers for no reason, it's there choice, don't forget they work for us not the other way round.
Agreed!
I've been a cab driver for 32 years mark, I spent most of that time on the radio, dial a cab for over 25 years, freenow are rubbish getting taxi are not much better
I can't wait to get out of this shit job, your videos make it look like it's a great job, it's not tell the truth on your videos
@@johnfox570 I love the job!