Royal Taxi's

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

9 of us got a mini bus from Bishop Cuthbert to Wynyard on sat night, straight up the A19 at 7.30

How much do you think ?

JohnnyMars · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:24 am **Posts:** 2471

Eight quid?

ptbap · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:07 pm

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

£40

yes £40 i kid you not

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:10 pm

A tenner.

Not a tenor...

... before some smartarse posts a picture of Pavarotti or one of his mates. :roll:

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:10 pm

£40?

It's less then half that to go to Sedgefield!!! :shock:

Jonny · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:12 pm

Did you agree the fayre before setting off or was that what the meter displayed.?

ptbap · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:14 pm

Did you pay it? With 9 people in the van I'd have been tempted to tell them to go fuck themselves!

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:15 pm

offshorepoolie wrote:

Jonny wrote:

Did you agree the fayre before setting off or was that what the meter displayed.?

Fayre there's fook all fair about that FARE rolfl

But if they were getting fed on the way then that might explain the seemingly exorbitant charge?

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

alls fare in love and taxis

Jonny · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:18 pm

Maybe someone in the group was late to the pick up point and the meter may of been alreading ticking over. If the meter wasn't in view then and no price was agreed before the journey then I know who the daft ones are......

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22659

Il a besoin a faire un salaire.

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

I was the last pick up and we all live the same place, one lad had just phoned them and didnt tell us the price till we got there

JohnnyMars · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:24 am **Posts:** 2471

verbalkint wrote:

£40

yes £40 i kid you not

Forty quid :!:

Thats highway robbery that is rolf

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:31 pm

How much did you tip him... rolfl

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:31 pm

mouldy old dough wrote:

How much did you tip him... rolfl

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

try

404040

:grin:

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:36 pm

I'd have paid him, took the keys, locked him out and told him to call a taxi to get home, 'it's alright mate, it's only 40 quid......' :evil:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:07 pm

Oui, bien sur. Faites vous un GCSE en francais, Monsieur ?

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

Hartlepool Radio Taxis charge £21 from Victoria Park to Darlington train station. I think that's quite reasonable.

Them taxis outside the train station at Leeds once quoted me £68 (yes sixty-eight) for Leeds train station to Donny when the trains stopped running due to signal problems... I didn't go.

NEW ADMIN · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:48 pm **Posts:** 185

I got a taxi from Redcar High Street to Brierton lane on Saturday night at 10pm
£32 --A lot further than this journey

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

i think the point here is that there were 9 of you
so it was more than a taxi ride
it would have taken 3 taxis to get all of you to wynyard
basically you have hired a mini bus and paid the rate for this.

i cant believe i am siding with a fooking taxi firm :uhoh:

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:42 pm

Royal taxis are a bunch of bounders. I wish they would p*ss off back to boro where they belong. If you use that company you deserve everything you get. They are the scum of the earth and a bunch of money grabbing cowboys.

Some fat asian bloke was driving one the other day and pulled straight out infront of me. If I had not hade my wits about me I would have gone straight into the back of him and it would have been my fault legally.

If I see him again im going to string him to the back of my car and pull the bounder all the way back to boro. rage

(ps allegedly)

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:38 pm

Royal Taxis- they're not just Indians, they're cowboys aswell.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:53 pm

Dugoutpaddy · **Joined:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 am **Posts:** 1772

I heard last night that they charged £15:00 from the Lighthouse to Elwick road :shock:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:34 pm

they'd have had to call the police for me if they asked me for that much for such a short journey. They are in breach of the local asuthority pricing structure if that was the case

Dugoutpaddy · **Joined:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 am **Posts:** 1772

Cabbie last night said ( and cabbies don't lie...do they?) said he heard of a fare from Tennyson ave to the Belle Vue club charged at £8:00. He also said that they (other taxi drivers) are up in arms over this firm but the poilce and local authority have told them to keep away.

He also alleged that a normal £6:00 fare from the fens to the headland was charged at £20:00 and when the old lady only had her 6 quid ready, drove her to a mini bank where another taxi was waiting and made her take the cash out of a machine. This story I have also heard from the son of the lady in question !

Bang out of order really refred

tigro · **Posted:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:01 am

why do people still use royal taxi's then? they are just a branch of boro taxi's arent they? if thats true then i believe every story ive read about on here, robbing fookwits

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:25 pm

Dugoutpaddy wrote:

He also alleged that a normal £6:00 fare from the fens to the headland was charged at £20:00 and when the old lady only had her 6 quid ready, drove her to a mini bank where another taxi was waiting and made her take the cash out of a machine. This story I have also heard from the son of the lady in question !

Bang out of order really refred

If that is true surely the Police would have been called!!!! confised

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:24 pm

they CAN'T charge more than the local borough's pricing structure if the entire journey falls within that borough, i.e. Hartlepool.
I've just gone past a Royal Taxi outside the Navy Club, with a Wear Valley taxi plate on the back???

katcha · **Posted:** Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:28 pm

I think that there is a difference between private hire (who dont have to display their fares) and hackneys who do have to display. If you get a quote over the phone they have to honour it otherwise they'll probably try and take your bollocks out like they are.

Don't use 'em - they've ruined what little of a good name Stripe had

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