Time does not equal money
At 3:33AM this morning a young lady got in the cab, sat herself down and said “can you reset your meter please?”
I turned around and said “that’s the time sweet heart”.
She said OK and off we set.
When I got to her destination I asked if she’d experienced hiring a taxi with the meter already running, and to my disappointment she said she had. I told her if it happens again she must note the cabs number and report it to the council.
Apart from Christmas and New Year, the price you need to see on our meter when setting off is either £2 or £2.70; if it’s any more insist the driver resets it, but make sure you don’t mistake the time for money.
We do get asked a few times why the meter is already on £3 or £4 or £4.50 etc but that’s when they do mistake the time on the meter for money, (when meter is off the time shows in the screen) if it’s 3AM or 4AM or 4:50AM, it shows in the meter screen as 3.00 or 4.00 or 4.50 so I can see how easy it is for people to make the error.
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~ by prestontaxi on May 21, 2009.
Posted in Taxi Stories.
Tags: lancashire, lancs, night life, preston, taxi
