Why Are School Holidays So Quiet in London?

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - A job so soon!
01:17 - Why is it so quiet?
03:38 - Breaking my own rule!
04:55 - Keep the change driver!
06:45 - Rods back door
07:29 - Matinees!
09:30 - A job in the park!
10:10 - Ken Square vs Ken Gdns Square?
12:32 - Don't try so hard
14:01 - Watch the lambo!
15:16 - The Selfridges shuttlebus
16:05 - Don't over-rank!
18:23 - Guess the hotel
19:00 - Do you know London?
20:22 - Penton Street
21:14 - KX evacuated?
21:40 - Bus stop hail
23:40 - Where is everyone?
24:37 - The most beautiful pub?
26:25 - Maida Vale please!

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@Pieface23 Год назад

I enjoy saying to myself “I KNOW WHERE THAT IS” way too much in these videos. Class as always TOM.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Cheers Jack! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

@ebismusic8813 Год назад

I don’t know why Tom, I really don’t, but I find your shift vlogs totally compelling 😊

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Good to hear!

@markpunt9638 Год назад

I’m just about to watch this one for the third time - talk about addictive😂

@senorsenior92 Год назад

It’s because he’s compelling.

@r_0113 Год назад

He is so compelling. Might become a taxi driver now 🤣

@oldmanc2 Год назад

Me too! So therapeutic watching an expert drive round the complicated streets of London so smoothly

@sweetycamy Год назад

Thank you for being so careful for cyclists, but also pointing out the crazy behaviours and not introducing the "hate for all bikes" attitude! which seems to be more common than not. I cycle a lot and I can never comprehend not signaling, having earphones on etc.... we're part of the traffic so we should behave accordingly. Subscribed!

@johnorchin8567 Год назад

The ‘For Hire’ light needs to me made much more distinctive on the modern electric cabs. It was never an issue with the older cabs, the fact that several people tried to flag you down, when you weren’t available speaks for itself.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

I am having a cap fitted to it soon John Looks like it works wonders!

@kiradotee Год назад

@@TomtheTaxiDriver make sure to show it to us in a video!

@itsjohndell Год назад

Had a laugh about Trafalgar Square. On my first solo trip to London (was going with family since 1960) did not know the Tube didn't run 24/7. New to boozing I ended up in a steady rain, just myself and Lord Nelson for near an hour until a black cab came around. Ah, youth!

@ruadhagainagaidheal9398 Год назад

In my days as a London cabby (37 years pushing the old droshky, retired to Cornwall in 2016) I always looked forward to June as the busiest month of the year.

@Recoil21 Год назад

Always great to see another cab video! Good way to start the weekend!

@simonnlaroche5438 Год назад

Great vid Tom, really appreciate the content, information and knowledge you offer. Thank you!

@LawAndBedlum Год назад

I absolutely love your vlogs. I like everything about them

@sheilam4525 Год назад

Captivating vlog, as always, Tom, thank you⭐️

@zhengzexu1438 Год назад

Love these videos and your explanations

@jeremyc9136 Год назад

Tom I love watching your videos they are keeping me motivated to chip away at some outstanding bills so I can get back on the knowledge full time next year and pick up my badge this time round. Thankyou !

@thesportlad Год назад

Another interesting video, Tom! This has become one of my favourite channels. Great stuff, keep them coming mate! 👌🏻✌🏻

@SlightlyLost111 Год назад

Please keep these coming over the summer. I could watch these videos 24/7

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Will try get one out a month!

@colors6692 Год назад

@@TomtheTaxiDriver One a month?!?!

@Frederick-765 Год назад

@@colors6692 yes

@lccustoms99 Год назад

I was hoping one a day 😢

@jungleboy1 Год назад

@@lccustoms99 you know how hard it is to get videos and also do a 9-5 taxi job..... I don't, but i expect probably impossible.... One day tom will get his 500k + subs then he can do 1 a day i guess.

@juststuart Год назад

love the history parts of your videos need to put more in

@deuter458624 8 месяцев назад

Love listening you sharing your little tidbits of UK 🇬🇧History. Hi from Singapore 🇸🇬

@thiskewlchick Год назад

Watching your videos is so cathartic. I appreciate you and your knowledge. Thank you Tom! 🇨🇦

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Glad you like them!

@JustJayme Год назад

You deserve far more subs, another great video Tom!

@ThePolaroid669 Год назад

Yay - some nice TTTD viewing for a cold winter's Saturday night!

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Hope it's not too cold down under John!

@TheSharmaNeeta Год назад

So fun to watch! I’ve lived in W11 for almost 8 years and was fascinated that I know way more street names than I thought. Can’t wait to share with my 5 year old - he loves taxis. Also, being a daily taxi user, this gives me so much intel … eg. I have a hard time finding taxis, so often wait near bus stops to take whatever comes first.

@davemac3081 Год назад

Cheers Tom I love these shift videos 👍

@MrFlyingguy Год назад

Tom, another brilliant Episode, highly watchable and somewhat satisfying to watch someone deal with decisions in a concise manner, you provide insight, a strong format, decent narrative and a little therapy as well.... ta

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Thank you! Sometimes the decisions aren’t that concise at the time but I try and represent exactly what is going on at that time 🤪

@3mirren Год назад

Brilliant tom really enjoyed that 👍

@iandrew6347 Год назад

A fantastic video Sir always look forward to watching your videos .

@scottsvaletingservices6949 Год назад

Love the videos Tom. I’m a Private hire taxi driver up in Perth Scotland, love the insight into driving a black cab in London. School holidays are a pain, days become very slow. Nights however are a bit better. Keep up the good work bud 🚕 😎

@scottsvaletingservices6949 Год назад

@williamdryden3286don’t think I would cope driving around London. Traffic here is bad enough 😂

@unclejacksbluewhitearmy Год назад

My wife’s friend’s dad is a Hackney driver in Liverpool. He says summers are quiet as the students, obviously in term time, earn him a fortune as they won’t walk anywhere, especially on a night out. He even does 100m rides from bar to bar.

@rangers7259 Год назад

New subscriber mate… who’d have thought driving round the big smoke would be so entertaining… brilliant viewing…👏👏👍

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

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@adamingleton8529 Год назад

Love these videos

@Craig-wp3pz Год назад

"Never gonna not give that up" Loving the strength brother 💪👍

@majidhussain1236 Год назад

Nice video Tom ❤ love it 🥰

@oneteaminbristolbcfc Год назад

Thanks for this

@sstanl3y932 Год назад

London almost always dies down during school holidays, I always remember my dad saying the city was a lot quieter almost dead during the summer and Christmas holidays

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

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@tonyclifton265 Год назад

i recognised holland park avenue instantly. i'll soon be ready to take tom on in a london knowledge test

@cabottaxi Год назад

Did you see Duffy in Warwick Avenue ? 😀 All the Londoners are away on holiday. You only have to look at fight radar 24 to see TUI increase there Gatwick flights to larger 787 aircraft to places like Tenerife instead of the 737s.

@stringer6435 Год назад

not sure how your vid come along but i loved it… lol

@PriceCheckMeBro Год назад

I don't live in London or drive a taxi but I binged half your channel lol interesting stuff

@johumm455 Год назад

yes it is weird that when standing for a break or a quick windshield clean, so many times someone comes out of nowhere and asking you for a ride. But it happened to me also A lot!

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Yes! Always when I am prebooked or on a tour with clients ahah!

@nickstephenson3451 Год назад

Interesting as always. I assumed half term would be hectic busy. Insane amount of red light jumpers

@petehodges1060 Год назад

I’m a cabbie of 20 years and when I’m not working and watch one of your videos I wanna jump straight back to work 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@barrygower6733 Год назад

You’ve said before that the yellow taxi light often catches the sun and suggests that you’re empty.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Yes, although I'm due to have an aftermarket cap fitted 😊

@andrewscott3415 Год назад

Great vid mate👍✌️

@Theboyintheshorts Год назад

The Royal Oak - Also used as the ‘Samoan Pub’ in Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels…

@geocabbie89 Год назад

Cor that Belgrave Sq / Grosvenor Cr traffic’s a killer at the moment!

@JessicaOwensful Год назад

I lived in London for a year in 2017-2018 used to go from Victoria to Brixton all the time

@Delta060 Год назад

tom can we get a best super car spots of the year from your dashcam? i feel like it'll be a different type of content from normal and im sure you see plenty of sweet cars whilst your out working.

@ryanstyles8540 Год назад

Easy 1 mile radius of Harrods 😂.

@EricErs22 Год назад

Great video!

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Thanks for the visit

@joshuahill5271 Год назад

July = Winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Meaning tourist hotspot in New Zealand/Australia as snow is a great tourist attraction.

@greigs9384 Год назад

I’ve Always said the further away from the centre you go, the radio / apps will throw you a job quicker. I ended up working Clapham / Wimbledon the other day like a YB driver. Even put on Wimbledon village.

@dereklee-dj5bl 10 месяцев назад

Just had this on autoplay, but at 28:10, Maida Vale station is actually by Stanley Heaps, Green’s former assistant, along with Kilburn park. These were built after Leslie Green’s death, and are the only single storey oxblood stations as they used escalators instead of lifts, which were invented after Green’s death.

@juliajones2283 Год назад

I find these very interesting.

@madmattuk1234 Год назад

Hi Tom I thoroughly enjoyed thi upload the content was great as always and you included the Jolly schnitzel amwell street. Please could you put some more good eateries into your content as I'm writing it down. If a local taxi driver eats there then A) it must be good food and B) it must be reasonably priced too. Best wishes and safe travels, Matt

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Thanks Matt, would also recommend this video I made. The BEST Lunches in London! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3j1ojlHY-VQ.html

@OG_Rider Год назад

The hard man crossing the road 😂

@michaelorton6808 Год назад

great again tom.

@nomsantuli6023 Год назад

Welcome back

@ianmason. Год назад

The Princess Louise is also where I first met my Mrs. A happier event than the one involving Dennis Neilson.

@jamessadia 4 месяца назад

They are pretty quiet everywhere tbh. Unless it's a seaside town like mine and it's high season.

@lukejames7784 Год назад

Tom loves the vids. I know it may be personal but I would love to know more about earnings.

@rhythmrida Год назад

Most people are going abroad these days as a holidays in the uk is super pricey. A flight from Edinburg to Spain is cheap than a flight from Edinburg to London and the average 1 week holiday costs around £1000 for the accommodation alone. Where as in Indonesia you can get a luxury apartment with pool and hot tub for £20 a night. And £50 is equivalent to 1m rupia meaning you can live like a king for a week for the price of a family meal in a central London restaurant.

@BrockMak Год назад

2:31 The first term break was quiet for drivers in Auckland (Easter Weekend to just after ANZAC Day on April 25). Many revenge trips leaving the city. Because the call centre also covered the top half of North Island, I was still working overtime. It's proper kipper season in Auckland now, even with the second term break not until the first week of July (winter break).

@carlton7974 Год назад

Tom, the lime bicycles only make that noise when you don’t pay and just pedal

@therealryan1329 Год назад

ANPR is Automatic Number Plate Recognition not reader. Love the video as always though Tom!

@Vickix1185 Год назад

I wonder if people hailing you when you've already got a passenger is the taxi equivalent of saying the q word in retail or call centre work? Great video as ever Tom - irony being I'm watching after having to get a taxi home from skating due to a cancelled train! :D

@jpaulc441 11 месяцев назад

What's the Q word?

@Vickix1185 11 месяцев назад

@@jpaulc441 Q word = quiet. Guaranteed to bring a sea of customers in :)

@definitelynotatroll246 Год назад

You must go thru a lot of maps with that marker

@benmooe Год назад

Hey Tom, Great vid as always. Rick Astley part-owns both of the Mikkeller bars in London, Slight nit-pick incase anyone requests in the future, the one on Hackney Road is his first bar, the Microbrewery is the one on exmouth market. There is also a pretty good documentary on RU-vid about Rick and Mikkel from Mikkeller developing a beer :)

@JackDonnelly-sb8dp 11 месяцев назад

These bars were asked by the examiner called mr mcdowell whilst I was studying the knowledge,he allways asks for bars and restaurants

@jamesmartingolf Год назад

I was watching your ad for Y food, and it got interrupted by an ad for Head & Shoulders

@ianmason. Год назад

If you turn off Columbia Road down the side of the Royal Oak and into Ezra Street you'll find an area that is still cobbled and only has Victorian brick built buildings, the exteriors haven't been modernised at all. Consequently the street has been used as a set for more films than you can shake a stick at. It even has some of the original gas lampstands, which have had modern lamps fitted into them.

@JackDonnelly-sb8dp 11 месяцев назад

Mr Wilkins the examiner asks all these locations on the knowledge,he loves the historical side of London

@michaeljames87 Год назад

I love this channel. Fair play to this guy.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Thank you Mikey 👍🏻

@alexdavis5766 Год назад

I was in London on that day (if it’s the Friday of half term?) and travelled on 3 taxis, I found London very busy. Was in Covent Garden for the transport museum and it was rammed

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Those areas are rammed but the whole of London overall is quiet. Needs to be firing on all cylinders

@alexdavis5766 Год назад

@@TomtheTaxiDriver ah I see. I mentioned to the one taxi driver who saw I was filming a video before I got in his taxi (I’ve just just launched a channel, not this page though) that it was RU-vid and he joked he should start one and be like you! Seems you’re famous in the black cab world

@BrockMak Год назад

22:02 In NZ, taxis are treated just like normal cars, even BU (Before Uber), so even though I often wait in the bus shelter (even when the stop is closed for pavement maintenance) near my house, I have to step out to the only parking spot around the corner or cross the road if I'm going uphill on the main road.

@cliveramsbotty6077 Год назад

that sounds like private hire minicabs we have here, on top of that we have black taxis, which are a class apart.

@FatUglySadMan Год назад

I always find the schools holidays better than normal weeks,strange old game.

@barbaramorris5172 Год назад

Is it just me or do people walk around London checking cabs incase it’s Tom? Nope, just me then 😂.

@dannycrooks8462 Год назад

I live in the countryside and I still don't know all the roads where I live 🤣

@regularguy3665 8 месяцев назад

26.38 - was that Nilsen or none of the shots from the David Tennant show a while ago? I can’t tell.

@zaphod4245 Год назад

Pretty sure that ANPR car parks have to give you a 10 minute grace period without charging you. There was a case a few years ago where someone went in and out again and got a fine, and basically said that they drove up, saw the prices and decided nope, too expensive and left, and that it would have been unsafe to reverse back out to avoid the camera, so they shouldn't have been fined, and the courts agreed. The principle being that car park fines are agreed to because they're part of the Ts&Cs of the car park, which you accept by parking, but legally (as with any Ts&Cs) you need to have a chance to read and then choose to accept or reject them. Since they're on the sign at the entrance, and since it would be unreasonable and unsafe to expect someone to drive up, read them, and then reverse if they don't accept them, the car park must allow you to go in and out without paying if you don't park, by way of a 10 min grace period, same also applies for barrier car parks which give a ticket on entry, if you leave immediately you don't have to pay and the barriers will let you out.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Very interesting! Will bare this in mind. Because I know dropping off at the Sofitel T5 we definitely get stung with it unless we get it validated. Although, mainly it’s agro getting the ticket and appealing, shouldn’t have to happen in the first place, like you say

@stevoooooable Год назад

Your skin is looking great!

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Thank you so much, Lymecycline the antibiotic has done wonders for me! Hopefully this helps others!

@stevoooooable Год назад

@@TomtheTaxiDriver rosacea I’m assuming? That’s amazing results, congrats

@dannycrooks8462 Год назад

I know roads to get from a to b quickly but to what they're called I haven't a clue

@mad1538 Год назад

Hi Tom! Do you use the petrol generator or the chargers mostly

@brianthesnail3815 Год назад

School holidays parents are now able to work from home. It really is that simple in the post Covid world. Some people are also on holiday. Almost nobody is physically at work in the public sector in school holidays.

@Security848 Год назад

trains were packed

@massimolecavalier8209 Год назад

Would it be possible to also know what the fare was after each run? I understand it may be somewhat sensitive information; I only ask because I think it would be an interesting and useful way to compare different routes to each other like how their distances are given.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Fares vary hugely, like the last one was £23.80. Which was really good for that time of night and distance. Princes square to rods was about £19 because of the heavy traffic on Ken church street. It’s a way shorter route but the time taken is the killer. Sometimes very hard to communicate that time on video.

@ollewall Год назад

Laughed at 24:08 :D

@andrewlorimer7346 Год назад

Tom if you won the lottery, would you still drive your cab? I get the impression that you would. Great videos keep them up

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

I would never want to win the lottery 🤪 that’s one easy way to ruin your life. But yes, if I retire or have financial freedom. I’d drive the cab probably 3 days a week, and probably half the hours each day. It all depends on the cost of the vehicle at the time, that’s the only thing that will throw a spanner in the works. The current LEVC is pretty much impossible to work part time.

@ZafiraSteve 11 месяцев назад

9:11 Automatic Number Plate Recognition 😅 ANPR

@cabbieoo7 Год назад

Your complexion looks great 👍

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Hope you are keeping well John! How’s The K treating you?

@cabbieoo7 Год назад

@@TomtheTaxiDriver 2024 fingers crossed 🤞

@LarryB600 Год назад

@@TomtheTaxiDriver the examiners will give him a easy ride so more people jump on the knowledge, the examiners know he is a RU-vidr and has a following, he will be out in no time

@thealbagalavanter9986 11 месяцев назад

Getting stuck behind a bin lorry thats pretty rubbish like my jokes lol

@SleepingTurtle1 Год назад

You are like Jamie Oliver meets the Shipping Forecast.

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

I’ll take that as a compliment, nothing more British than that!

@mfurmyr Год назад

After driving some years as a cab driver you get the sixth Sence on customer in the streets.

@thomasBCFC250 Год назад

More airport videos please, is it possible for a London Luton Airport video please

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Not allowed to pick up at Luton I’m afraid

@dmisso42 19 дней назад

Is it more effective to Cruise for work or sit at a rank? I drove a night taxi (in Australia). Even with a centralised booking system, I found cruising, so that I might be closer to a job, better than being stationary.

@jbstans Год назад

What does it mean to 'comply by' the roundabout/gyratory?

@davidrobinson1872 Год назад

I think a bike went through nearly every set of traffic lights that was on red. You can see why they keep getting squashed in London.

@BrockMak Год назад

Big faux pas for me (even though I don't drive much) 19:00 What was THAT?

@sb1056sb Год назад

I noticed when I was in London the other day I seen some TXe's with visors adapted above the hire light does that help with the sun?

@TomtheTaxiDriver Год назад

Well spotted! They are gradually being rolled out to drivers when they have work on their taxi 👍🏻

@ggbirdymill1618 Год назад

London would be a much better city if there were only cabs and busses allowed on the city center streets

@craigallan93 Год назад

17:10 personal highlight of this video 😉

@TomRelubbus Год назад

I'll tell you why. It's because every time there's a holiday - all the "right-on types" who bleat about pollution in London - jump into anything with an engine, and high tail it out of London as fast as that engine will go!