Blackbriar 8,569 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Should taxi drivers be required to speak competent English ? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/09/uber-urges-tfl-drop-plans-drivers-written-english-exam-london Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Sounds perfectly sensible and reasonable to me, they need to be able to communicate effectively with their passengers for a whole host of reasons. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 9,789 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Yep and it should also be compulsory to have CCTV fitted in their cabs. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 They should be able to speak fluent English if they are going to live & work here permanently. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marshman 7,757 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 (edited) As I black cab driver we have to do the knowledge basically learning all the roads and points of interest . It took me 3 years to learn 9 to 5 and 6 days a week. Then we have to be police checked and even have a medical . Now uber gets the desperate almost all are immigrants driver that can't speak a word of English surely if your gonna work in a country it would be beneficial if you speak English ? Mind you TFL should be concentrating on the massive rise in sexual assaults commited by uber drivers rather as well ! uber Ceo being best mates with David Cameron helped . But now with Mr Kahn being mayor things are changing Edited August 10, 2016 by marshman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 They should be told theres enough cars on the road already and sent back home 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marshman 7,757 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 They should be told theres enough cars on the road already and sent back home exactly they keep charging us more money because of emissions and pollution . Then they give out thousands of cab lisceances thus putting more cars on the roads Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 They should not only speak English they should BE English. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crowsnest 55 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 when i went for my badge there was a dark skinned fellow there at the same time, his english was crap yet the left wing slag who works for the council was all over him, she pulled me about something that happend in a pub years ago, he got his badge right away i had to beg for mine and she told me if i ever step out of line once thats it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,539 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 they live in our country they should speake our language Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 I got a cab to Wimbledon Stadium a few years back. It was only 5 or 6 miles from where I lived. The first thing the driver (not English) asked was the postcode for the stadium. Strangely enough I didn't know the postcode and had to direct him every inch of the journey. How do these people get jobs like that? Can't beat the good old English cabbies. "You'll never guess who I had in the back of the cab last night." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,569 Posted August 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 (edited) As I black cab driver we have to do the knowledge basically learning all the roads and points of interest . It took me 3 years to learn 9 to 5 and 6 days a week. Then we have to be police checked and even have a medical . Now uber gets the desperate almost all are immigrants driver that can't speak a word of English surely if your gonna work in a country it would be beneficial if you speak English ? Mind you TFL should be concentrating on the massive rise in sexual assaults commited by uber drivers rather as well ! uber Ceo being best mates with David Cameron helped . But now with Mr Kahn being mayor things are changing Both of my first wife's brothers did "the Knowledge" - like you, they did it in their spare time and at their own considerable expense. Suddenly any old Tom, Dick and Tariq can borrow his cousins Prius and call himself a taxi driver ! It can't be right or fair, surely ? Edited August 10, 2016 by Blackbriar 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,550 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 I have used taxi's in karachi whose drivers spoke better english than some taxi drivers in London,thats the truth. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shepp 2,285 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Another problem with these Uber drivers is their police checks are only able to check from the day they bullshitted their way into Britain. They could have been up to anything back in Somalia or Pakistan. The bloke who killed the shop keep and was locked up yesterday was an Uber driver, as was the guy who cut the guys throat in the tube station in East London, he was known to have serious mental health issues. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nans pat 2,575 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 should have them pulling rickshaws barefoot, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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