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Latest Taxi driver activity...

  • 29-07-2009 9:58am
    #1
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭


    I'm sure others have noticed this...taxi drivers are now PUSHING their vehicles with their hand in the window to steer when moving up the rank queue. I first noticed this outside the Gresham Hotel on O'Connell Street.

    C'mon "bud"...pushing your car in this day & age...are they that stingy to save fuel LOL.


Comments

  • #2
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Saves on the fuel to ignite the engine

    Helps prolong the starter motor/ignition.

    Moving a car a couple of feet requires little effort...

    Whats wrong with this.


  • #3
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    /moved to the really bad attempt at humour forum


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I sometimes do this if I only need to move my car a few feet. Seems ridiculous to turn on the engine just to roll it forward and then switch it off again.


  • #5
    loobylou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    Taxi drivers always did this back in the seventies/eighties. Economically we seem to have gone back there too.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    seamus wrote: »
    I sometimes do this if I only need to move my car a few feet. Seems ridiculous to turn on the engine just to roll it forward and then switch it off again.

    i have never heard of this.. maybe for a taxi driver but for a regular person seems a bit odd.


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  • #7
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    I always do that when moving the car in the driveway. Though you should sit in, turn the key to '2' and have your foot ready on the brake.


  • #8
    biggus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭biggus


    a Prius would solve this problem for them.


  • #9
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Taxi drivers are not the only ones pushing their vehicles, this photo was captured yesterday of a motorcyclist pushing his bike around the recently opened bus corridor on Collage Green to avoid prosecution.

    http://www.biker.ie/gallery/albums/userpics/11972/Push_It.jpg


  • #10
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Deleted User wrote: »
    i have never heard of this.. maybe for a taxi driver but for a regular person seems a bit odd.
    In my head, the effort required to release the handbrake and roll the car forward by six feet is less than the effort required to sit in and drive it thos six feet.


  • #11
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    The future of Irish taxis?


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