In the mind of a taxi driver

Inspired from an earlier thread

The Mind
The Mind of a taxi driver is one which should not be under-estimated. Never mess with a taxi driver while he is driving the taxi, he is the law of the road, he owns the road, he makes the rules of the road and you are on his turf, so you should show appropriate respect when you drive on HIS road.

In the mind of a taxi driver, his taxi is the best thing since sliced bread, and white walled tires and small tekkies hanging from the towbar shall not be scorned at. You shall respect the saying "Nyakaza Ndoda" which means "Just drive, man!"

In the mind of a taxi driver, all road users, including Putco buses, regular cars and trucks, don't know how to drive and they are merely obstacles in his way that need to be dealt with by force.

Never Argue with a taxi driver about his style of driving, or tell him that he cant drive. This will either lead to one of two effects.
1) he will shout out the window at you, expletives in Zulu, Tswana, Pedi, Sotho and a select remainder of the 11 official langauges. His comrades will appear from nowhere and together, with their taxi's they will try and box you in.
2) He will produce a knopkierrie, panga, or baton and proceed to whack the roof of your car until you either speed away in fear or run away.

The Taxi
This is the taxi driver's most prized possession, and should be treated with kindness and respect and awe. Not every taxi driver can own such a fast and outstanding taxi adorned with many slogans, for example "KOMPRESSOR" on the door, and "HOME SWEET HOME" on the rear windscreen. You are allowed to drool over it, just make sure you dont damage the paint work or the whitewalled tires/toyota sprinter hubcaps.

That is just brilliant, thans for sharing the on goings of the taxi driver

You forgot the required vice-grip on the steering wheel

very similar to a golf driver

and the driving while hanging out the window...

well, there's not that much difference between Golf Drivers and taxi drivers in terms of driving style and various other aspects. The Golf's are much faster and in far more roadworthy condition.

4cer said:

very similar to a golf driver

and the driving while hanging out the window...

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Stop insulting Taxi drivers

Devill said:

Stop insulting Taxi drivers

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+1,
The South African taxi industry is estimated to have a turnover of approximately R16,5 billion. The precise contribution of the taxi industry to the country’s GDP is unknown. Many taxi operators are not registered as taxpayers.

sly said:

+1,
Many taxi operators are not registered as taxpayers.

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Nuff said.

Seriously I think bus drivers are far worse. The other day I was driving in town and the bus driver put on his flicker to change lanes, taxi was driving next to him, this bus driver didn't even give a crap after about 2 minutes of the taxi not moving out of his way (this is in seriously congested traffic), he simply started turning forcing the taxi driver who looked very worried to swerve off the road.

I found this all very funny until 10 minutes later the exact same thing happened to me, I couldn't get out of the lane because of congestion and this bus driver gave me about a minute to get the hell out of his way (which I obviously didn't because there's too much traffic) at which point he just starting changing lanes. Oh and did I mention that was happening at around 100km/h? Those guys are hooligans.

I have seen taxi's break every damn rule on the road. I've seen them driving up one ways honking at oncoming traffic. I've seen them cut off 4 lanes of legal traffic so they can illegally turn into a busy road. They are absolutely insane. I hate taxi's.

In the entire time I have owned a car I've only had 5 near escapes, every single time it was a taxi driving on the wrong side of the road. And every single time they gave me attitude when I honked at them for doing so.