I got BLOCKED!

In this episode, cycling madness-how to wash a London taxi-and I get a 24 hour block on my ride hailing app. #blackcab #londontaxi #hackneycarraige #londoncabbie

[@oneteaminbristolbcfc]

Hi Mark thanks for the upload really enjoyed this!! I work for a firm in North Somerset who use a taxi app to give drivers their jobs at a cost of roughly £150 a week for this privilege 🤔. They have brought in a system where if you refuse work over a certain amount of times you are logged out for a period of time and the more you refuse the longer the penalty. I think it’s absolutely disgusting and disgraceful that you as a self employed driver who actually doesn’t work for anyone gets a penalty. (From the boss 🤷) The Taxi bylaws clearly state that a driver can refuse any job unless instructed by a police constable!! Obviously you wouldn’t refuse blind, learning difficultes etc because you’d be a c u next Tuesday if you did!!! But being punished for not doing the guy with piss stains on his trousers smelling of shit or the dodgy drug run or the local crack head seems unfair and under the bylaws is illegal. I wrote to the council but they don’t want to get involved 🤦 ✌️❤️

[@Marktaxi]

Great informative post! Love the insight into how it works at your end. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@honestdelivery]

Love it how you sometimes have to repeat the name of the place the customer wants to go, to confirm it, and then you know exactly where to go. Brilliant.

[@Marktaxi]

Yep always confirm, meeting lots of people from around the world with different accents, I learnt my lesson a while ago to always confirm

[@lorenzohermoso1085]

Always thought that Shepherds Bush bus lane was buses only. Thanks for the movie & be lucky.

[@vinnieleader]

Absolutely love your channel. I'm a London BusDriver for over 27 years Total respect.

[@Marktaxi]

And big respect to Bus Drivers, 🙌

[@Alexspurs-hy3hq]

Bully driver more like!

[@djrudog1158]

I like your vids. A subscriber for long time now. Like this style of vid like when you inclued a bit of history on thus..thanks

[@user-or1rr6ym3h]

Don’t know if anyone else has said but loosing the hire light in those car washes wasn’t an urban myth on the fairways it happened to me and a friend also

[@Marktaxi]

Really! I’m guessing maybe the auto wash tech wasn’t up to it then. You’re the first driver I I know that it’s actually happened to. Thanks for watching,

[@jamie2954]

Hi Mark, Glasgow cabbie here. Really enjoy your videos and appreciate the effort it takes putting them together. This one especially so as I’ve spent a lot of time in Fulham and knew some of the runs 😂

[@Marktaxi]

Hellooooo Glasgow! Hey thanks for your kind words about the channel. Glad I could take you on a journey down memory lane.

[@martinfoskett7697]

Really good video this one 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@r21747]

23:25 nooo, it is never enough for us

[@BrockMak]

13:00 That would be a timely "triple flash and triple left signal" for the faulty left brake lights.

[@listey]

A bit naughty going through the red light at 22:45!

[@martingundry4454]

Blocked? You naughty boy! I assume ones profession is ecstatic with Mr Khan’s reelection?😂

[@hassnainhussain3511]

Cycling Mikey don’t capture them only the cab drivers 😂😂😂

[@mossy199]

As a cyclist myself, mikey is a twat. But the corner at regents park is where i nearly hit a car taking a "short cut". Ive no problem with a driver checking their mobiles in traffic. Lets not point out how many drivers i see checking their phone while driving 🤫

[@oldskool731]

i been blocked 5 times last time scrolling through the jobs accepted one accidentally had to cancel it got blocked its pissing me off

[@BrockMak]

9:53 It's like our drivers cancelling a job without explaining to our dispatchers, as our company does have a comms system, but doen't have "For Hire" signs. You also cannot refuse Urgent Specimen, Blood Samples, Dialysis, Guide Dogs and Account jobs at all, but the penalty is a blanket 2-hour ban, meaning your tablet and meter (within the tablet) is blocked for 2 hours. All that said, however a 24-hour penalty is harsh.

[@Marktaxi]

Interesting! Is it 1 refusal the 2 hour ban? Also good that specific job categories ie Blood samples have a protected status. Obviously are apps don’t have that. Thanks again for watching, I think you’re my furthest global subscriber!

[@BrockMak]

​​​@@MarktaxiYes, but once the penalties are handed down by the system itself, it is difficult to remove. I obviously have no authority to deal with driver queries. Only plausible bypass I heard is if the samples were not ready to be picked up, but the booking was actually made and dispatched to you. The only other exception: You are a School Run driver. That takes priority over dialysis jobs awaiting return taxis due to far quicker turnaround time.

[@michaelslipman8853]

they used to take the hire sign off then they reversed the brushes

[@runarandersen878]

I think it should be possible to explain why canceling, even if that also could be exploited I guess.

[@Marktaxi]

There is a reason option that the driver has to go through before cancelling. Thank you for watching

[@jamesk1806]

Does the auto washes not leave swrill marks on the paint?

[@bigjml]

Hand car washes leave swirls. In all honesty the automatic washes likely causeess swirls.

[@jamesk1806]

@@bigjml I suppose with hand car wash they need a 2 or 3 bucket method. A decent good quality brush auto wash as you say will be less invasive.

[@Marktaxi]

Nowadays the new auto wash uses components that don’t leave any brush marks at all. Company’s spend millions designing these things and have really improved over the years. Thanks for watching

[@jamesk1806]

@@Marktaxi good to hear. So convient too.

[@johnorchin8567]

Hi Mark, It’s interesting to me when you say not much chance of a job on the street in Wimbledon, now Wimbledon is an affluent area, so why are people not likely to hail a cab? Perhaps it’s became they go out not expecting to see many cabs, and so have made other arrangements in their mind. When I’m in such areas, that I’m not really familiar with, the temptation to grab a cab is greater than in central London where public transport is so good.

[@CaboloNero]

Nobody’s walking out of a side street to a main road in the hope a cab will pass so they order on an app to their door.

[@Marktaxi]

As Cabolonero says, people just don’t expect black cabs to be available on the street there, so they will just order a ride off an app. Having said that very occasionally you can get lucky in the suburbs and get another ride off the street but it’s unlikely. I just just head back to where the work is. 🚕

[@davidomahoney1507]

Wake up freenow! You block a driver for 24 hours at any one time of the day annd you have probably a quarter of your work force not unable to use app. That really helps cover the work when it's busy. Where is yor business common sense? What do i know I'm just a london taxi driver.

[@Shads187]

Why not just delete the app. What makes you think you can't survive without the apps? Come on, get your thinking 🧢 on, I mean you did do the knowledge.

[@thomasdunkley7867]

Fed up with Freenow myself. They forget we don't need them and I earn better without them

[@Marktaxi]

I think the apps are handy for the drive in to work and back, I must admit I worked 6 days a week during Covid and Freenow was good to me. But I’m fully aware things have changed now. Anyway thanks for watching

[@hachi.]

Good

[@kennybraithwaite]

Great video Mark. Seemed like a great day for jobs . When's your next post

[@Marktaxi]

Gonna be doing every fortnight! Hopefully in 6 months every week. Thanks for watching

[@dVb9]

Have they moved Grosvenor Square? I'm sure that's where Belgrave Square used to be...

[@Marktaxi]

As far as I’m aware the squares are still in the same place

[@dVb9]

​@@Marktaxi Phew! Just a slip of the tongue, then (en route from Grosvenor Crescent to Chesham Place). 😊

[@BrockMak]

In Auckland's case? People on Lime scooters cutting through. As they are for hire, there's no guarantee that the helmet is included. You must have bike helmets when riding, even if it's just a practice just outside your backyard.

[@Marktaxi]

You have like too! They are everywhere and also on the Uber app

[@bigneil8888]

How did that fella get a third term ?

[@hachi.]

Because he got more votes ha ha

[@middxmale9692]

Re: Cab Wash .... I cant believe what im seeing ? .... In My day, we would NEVER go through a Car Wash , as Brushes no good for Paintwork ... EVERY Cabbie i knew, would only do 'Hand Car Wash' (or) 'Jet Wash' ( In my 25 years pushing, I NEVER came across a Driver who took his / Her cab through a actual 'Car Wash' )... Im stunned actually ! ......... Still its a Butter 'New Breed' thing , The 'Rules' are a Changing, as Bob Dylan or someone said Similar !

[@CaboloNero]

I wouldn’t use them and 100% not in a txe only got to close the door hard for the paint to fall off

[@Caravanguy60]

Unbelievable!! ANY vehicle through a car wash is like rubbing sandpaper over your body work. Come on Mark. Hand wash it. Every wash is free then!!

[@Marktaxi]

I’ve tried all those hand washes around my area and the first shell garage near me always came back better. No brush marks or signs of an auto car wash at all, the tech and components are a lot better now. Also got bored with a load of guys diving in the cab looking for spare change around the seats and sniffing around all the nooks and crannies. I would clean the cab myself but live in a flat with on street so it’s a real pain walking down with the buckets. Is Dylan ‘times a changing’? Good song writer awful voice. My badge is a replacement I was 67475 most cabbies spend their day tutting at me when they see my number. 😂 thanks for watching guys!

[@middxmale9692]

@@Marktaxi Im my day it was sacrosanct ....25 years, i never knew a single Cabbie who would use a Normal Car Wash ... Maybe its the 'Woke' thing to ignore the past traditions ! In the words of Lindsey Buckingham ' Never Going back Again' .. Footnote , I did once take a Garages Cab when i was a Butter through a Car Wash ... They went BALLISTIC ! lesson learnt !

[@Marktaxi]

@@middxmale9692 I guess nowadays it’s less about tradition and more about does my cab look better. So quick thought, maybe I’ll do an episode and compare the 2! Then do a rating at the end ‘Hand versus auto’

[@CaboloNero]

Why didn’t you use Vincent sq elverston ?

[@Marktaxi]

Well they just gave a me a number thought it was on the north side, thanks for watching

[@ColininThailand]

Stuff free now.

[@paulbond1666]

Delete the app I wouldn’t let a minicab circuit tell me what’s happening

[@timdaugherty5921]

cheap carwash!!! most here in USA are over $16!

[@cb91uk5]

* looks through comments for cyclists justifying jumping red lights *

[@Marktaxi]

Justifying jumping red lights! Is that even a thing

[@ColininThailand]

Best stop praising the bus lanes in case Saddo khan here’s you and changes it.

[@Marktaxi]

Wouldn’t surprise me

[@London77513]

Wake up still doing Freenow shame supporting this minicab app , you sound like Uber driver

[@Marktaxi]

Thanks for watching!

[@thomasdunkley7867]

This is why I hardly use freenow in town. Its either gett or taxiapp or street or rank