Now let's talk about some tricks of the trade. A load of bollocks is talked by many instructors about if you're good enough to pass a test you're good enough to pass anywhere. This is total shit. Any test taken away from your local test centre should be treated as an "away match" with a gr...

I suppose as I'm having a rare Friday night off with a glass or three of something cheeky I'll continue with my (mainly) true instructors tales. A little about the fleet we ran. To begin with we had, starting from the bottom up, a Honda Vision Met-In 50cc scooter, two Lifan CG125 clones, three conse...

So I'm not clogging up the main board with migrated topics and posts I thought it might be a good idea to reproduce my Confessions Of A Motorcycle Instructor onto our Two Wheels Good thread so here goes... Sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction so here goes. Let's assume the following stor...

Here's a golden oldie from February 2011. I can't believe how much my life has changed in 8 years. Back in the late 1980s I used to supplement my meagre student grant/giro by working as a fiver a night driver for a banger auction. Back in thoses days the sort of sub £500 chod I was lucky enough ...

THREAD FROM THE DEAD I'm not sure if this'll interest any of you but the national taxi trade magazine has at long last produced a list of vehicle age requirements for all local councils. https://www.phtm.co.uk/vehicle-age-and-regulation-survey&filter=A So if you fancy trying your hand at minicab...

This post from Feb 2014 really does seem dated now in 2019! Update time. My local authority has finally moved into the 21st century and realized that maybe a car isn't totally fucked when it hits eight years of age as is sick of issuing discretionary six monthly extensions after eight years. Now we ...

Throughout the years there's been a few noticeable absences from my local taxi fleet. British Leyland/ARG products although plentiful on the used market several examples never made it as a taxi, a Triumph Acclaim was never plated and only one example of its replacement Rover 213 made it onto the cir...

The local authority I answered to was/is Wirral Borough Council. Wirral is a place of stark contrasts, we regularly hold the Open Golf Championship and have areas of green belt situated around the multi million pound homes of Caldy and Heswall which are about as opposite to the areas of mass unemplo...

Anyway, a bit about the cars driving the roads of my town around the Millennium. The 406 was still a pretty new car and was somewhat aspirational to us drivers of older tackle and when someone on the firm bought one it was truly the object of desire at the base car park. Eventually the 406 went on t...

After being asked I thought I'd bring this topic over to the dark side courtesy of copy and paste. I'll also post any relevant updates here as well. The last time I drove a licensed vehicle was in 2006 so I thought I'd entertain you with a thread about the taxi shite I drove from 2001 to 2006. The t...