Settle an argument

Taxi driver

so if you were in the back of a taxi and wanted to change destination you would say:

taxi driver change of plans i want to go to blahblahblah.

You'd probably say "oi mate/excuse me,  change of plans i want to go to blahblahblah."

What do you call a Taxi Driver btw?

taxi driver here too
in that situation you'd go
"take us here instead please mate"

ok thats three replies, assuming your all english that proves my point.

Make your question more clear then in future.

how do i get here??

ask one of the cabbies on the rank

in this part of essex

Up in Cumbria we call them "Sir", just in case

I always associate cabbies with private hire vehicles rather than Taxis

Since they (minicab drivers) almost never speak fluent English, you can call them anything you want.

Ahmed normally

Puma Trackies

mate.

Stan

Ghastly prawn-sandwich eating sex offenders, normally.

cabbie

Bob

He's one of my mates.

Awright geeze

Chauffeur

the missus

Warning : Old Thread !

Ali

i always start with, "shouldn't you have gone left / right there?" to get the banter going in a black cab, before any formalities are exchanged.

but in a mini cab, i like to ask him to remove his hand from my leg before addressing him formally.

I like to chat about what weapons they keep in the cab for self defence purposes.

One kept some lead piping under the driver's mat. I called him Colonel. (Mustard)

Lovely to see Gravitational Pull back after all this time.

DIE LINKE 09 Aug 10 15:24 
Up in Cumbria we call them "Sir", just in case