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Taxis; What frequency in your town
Topic Started: Sunday, 5. July 2015, 12:21 (1,285 Views)
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Over here in Hull Taxis traditionally use Channel 6 for their chatter, what channel do they use where you live?

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Taxis(minicabs) in London use alloted Taxi bands not CB radios what I thought they are supposed to use all over
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We don't have any taxis on the CB band here nowadays but years ago they used to use 33 and 7 (separate firms). Dead handy when their phone was off the hook on a Saturday night- we used to call up one of the drivers we knew (which was most of them)! and get them to pick us up to go to the pub :D
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Sunday, 5. July 2015, 12:52
Taxis(minicabs) in London use alloted Taxi bands not CB radios what I thought they are supposed to use all over
EDIT: The allotted taxi frequencies I ment for them to use all over, and not to use CB's
TBH I've never know any cab companys in London to use CB
Edited by Nubster, Sunday, 5. July 2015, 13:36.

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Taxis(minicabs) in London use alloted Taxi bands not CB radios what I thought they are supposed to use all over
Martin, I don't know if you've lived outside of London (I lived in London '73 - 2000, while it still resembled London, not Lahore).

London is/was different to the rest of the country. In London, you have two choices, the local Pakistani minicab or a black cab. Black cabs are metered and expensive, abide by most of the rules - apart from trying to knock motorcycle riders of their bike, I was a despatch rider for about 18 months in the mid '80s.

I'm going to digress for one second. How come I can refer to a person from Uzbekistan as an Uzbeki, but if I want to shorten Pakistan to .... I'll have the race crime police breaking down my front door. Anyway, that's rhetorical.

So, you always chose the local Pak cabs company, where you could go anywhere in London for a tenner and only used black cabs if it was on company expenses. Insurance, MOT and licence are an optional extra for Pak cabs, and you understand that versus cost.

Outside of London, everywhere is licensed and metered. Even a guy turning up in his ten year old Mondeo, will have a plate on the back (Hackney Carriage) and will have a meter installed on the dash.
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Al never lived outside of London always been a Londoner , sorry mate I read your post twice and sorry I cant work out what point you are making :shrug: I know I'm dyslexsic so I do read things wrong sometimes but can you explaine please :thumb:
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Al never lived outside of London always been a Londoner , sorry mate I read your post twice and sorry I cant work out what point you are making :shrug: I know I'm dyslexsic so I do read things wrong sometimes but can you explaine please :thumb:
Yep, no probs. In London you have Black Cabs, all licensed and using the proper equipment. Then you have minicabs, who use what they like.

Outside of London, it is a bit of a hybrid, between the two, but they can use radios that the Black Cabby can't. So what you may be used to, might be different in other areas of the country.
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Sunday, 5. July 2015, 14:22
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Sunday, 5. July 2015, 14:16
Al never lived outside of London always been a Londoner , sorry mate I read your post twice and sorry I cant work out what point you are making :shrug: I know I'm dyslexsic so I do read things wrong sometimes but can you explaine please :thumb:
Yep, no probs. In London you have Black Cabs, all licensed and using the proper equipment. Then you have minicabs, who use what they like.

Outside of London, it is a bit of a hybrid, between the two, but they can use radios that the Black Cabby can't. So what you may be used to, might be different in other areas of the country.
OK Al all understood mate :thumb: never heard any cabs using CB at all in my area as it goes, dont see many licensed black cabs around my way either now lol its all minicabs driven by unmentionables cant say might get told off by the race police ;)

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Sunday, 5. July 2015, 15:31
OK Al all understood mate :thumb: never heard any cabs using CB at all in my area as it goes, dont see many licensed black cabs around my way either now lol its all minicabs driven by unmentionables cant say might get told off by the race police ;)
Loads of my Black Cabs in my day. We even had the novices at the despatch companies. They used to combine doing the 'Knowledge' with earning a bit of money. They would ride Honda C90s, with their directions attached to the front shield and get given the short City hops, and the longer decent runs went to the people with 'proper' bikes.

Ah, it takes me back, six times I was knocked off my bike in 18 months. Then there was the nice Black Cab that ran me over the road in The Strand, so badly I had to mount the pavement to escape. Or the time a truck blocked the road in Bouverie St. (where The Sun used to be located before moving to Wapping) and I mounted the pavement, only to find two Bobbies walking towards me, got let off with a warning, because I was going slowly and looking where I was going. Talking of Wapping, I had to go down there a few times, it was like trying to break the miner's picket line of the '80s, because flying pickets were allowed in those days. I used to come the back route, and then run the gauntlet at full throttle, which was difficult because it was still cobbled in those days, I had half a brick thrown at me one day, which narrowly missed.

The pista de resistance was hanging around at Portman Sq. A regular gathering point whilst waiting for the next job. Another rider turned up, with his 650 Suzuki Katana that I had been thinking about buying. Asked if I wanted a spin as pillion, so said yes. We took off up Oxford St., all I can say, is I think he thought he was piloting the Millennium Falcon, because he appeared to trying to make the jump to 'light speed' as he pulled a wheely. And then, the 80 year old dear decided to cross the road without looking. That front tyre smacked the tarmac so hard, I thought it was going to bounce, I was almost sitting on the shoulders of the rider, as I tried to hang on the chicken rail. I don't think I ever done 0-60 and 60-0 in 5 seconds before. Old lady completely oblivious to the closeness of her impending doom, that she just dodged.

Use to work out of the corner of Old St. and Shoreditch, near Hoxton Sq. Happy days and I was earning £250 a week 30 years ago.
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Sorry Al and l have gone off topic a bit, but we are reminiscing LOL all those areas you was on ya bike back then I was doing my multi-drop deliveries in a 7.5 ton lorry so I might have told you to :censor: off LOL ;) cos I used get cut up by quite a few despatch riders back then, I use to do deliveries all around East London and the West End for the fashion industries


Sorry once again to go off topic :thumb:
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They used Channel 7 & Channel 33 in my area back in the 80s , they all have there own radios nowadays.
They were a pain back then as there were so many breakers on in them days , pity they are not there now as uk 40 dead around here now.
It's a good job we can now work mid band now or my radio would be dead!! , but that is 30 years to late. :rig: :censor:
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Wednesday, 8. July 2015, 21:47

It's a good job we can now work mid band now or my radio would be dead!! , but that is 30 years to late. :rig: :censor:
Actully everyone has been allowed to use the MID band on FM only legally since the 1 September 1987 up untill the recent changes where made to be able to use AM/SSB also , but everyone could'nt be bothered to use untill now :shrug:
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Thursday, 9. July 2015, 06:54
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Wednesday, 8. July 2015, 21:47

It's a good job we can now work mid band now or my radio would be dead!! , but that is 30 years to late. :rig: :censor:
Actully everyone has been allowed to use the MID band on FM only legally since the 1 September 1987 up untill the recent changes where made to be able to use since the 1 September 1987 also , but everyone could'nt be bothered to use untill now :shrug:
I Kown mid band FM (Cept as I new it then ) has been legal from since the 1 September 1987 . It was AM/SSB that I should of said, sorry.
The same AM that we worked back in the 70s. Pity they didn't make it legal then.
Once again sorry.
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Thursday, 9. July 2015, 11:48
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Thursday, 9. July 2015, 06:54
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Wednesday, 8. July 2015, 21:47

It's a good job we can now work mid band now or my radio would be dead!! , but that is 30 years to late. :rig: :censor:
Actully everyone has been allowed to use the MID band on FM only legally since the 1 September 1987 up untill the recent changes where made to be able to use since the 1 September 1987 also , but everyone could'nt be bothered to use untill now :shrug:
I Kown mid band FM (Cept as I new it then ) has been legal from since the 1 September 1987 . It was AM/SSB that I should of said, sorry.
The same AM that we worked back in the 70s. Pity they didn't make it legal then.
Once again sorry.
Those old AM days will days will never come back mate that was when CB was proper CB IMHO
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Christopher ....

I don't think many Taxi's (if any) use CB here nowadays. The private hire cabs used to use CB back in the 80's, well some did, I remember a friend rick who drove for 'Yellow Cabs' here, was always on UKFM.

Not sure I have ever heard any Hackney Carriage using UKFM, although there is another company here which use CH1 UKFM as communication to this day.
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TBH Iam the same as Nik I have never heard any cab company on CB, well in London I aint ever , even dodgy minicabs I aint

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There used to be a company in High Wycombe using CH6 until about 2007, then we stopped hearing them. I assumed they moved to taxi radios
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cb was a lot more friendly back in the old am days ppl would help you then if you had a problem :wave:
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cb was a lot more friendly back in the old am days ppl would help you then if you had a problem :wave:
As Howard in the Big Bang Theory would say, tru dat.

It was a community, a small(ish) band of people that would help and look out for one another.

But that is true in general of society today. We used to look out for one another. I am lucky, I live in a small village, it's like going back in time by about 30 years. I lived in London, where I never ever even spoke to my neighbour, apart from when he was rude to the missus, and I had to go and explain the error of his ways.
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I also remember our local taxi firm using cb radio up to approx 2005 then as said they must of moved over to different freqs...



I also live in a village with only 6 other homes in a 2 mile radius....plenty of sheep mind ;)








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