Every video is a joy, Tom, but the shift videos are the bread and butter of this channel! I absolutely love seeing them, and I always wish that they go on for longer than they do.
I had to laugh, I have a colleague who likes to tell the cab driver which way to go because he thinks he knows best and he always opens the windows and asks for the aircon to be turned on even when it clearly already was before he opened the windows! Most of us avoid getting into the same cab as him as he always the last to arrive at the destination due to him 'knowing best' !
Hiya Tom, just thought I'd leave this here. I'm a Londoner born and bred, and I used to work jobs that got me driving all across London, so I like to think that I know my way about a bit. I now live in Edinburgh, and although I'd never admit it amongst friends, I do miss home from time to time. Thank you for uploading shifts like these. Your videos are such a joy to watch, to see my old stomping ground and share a laugh or two about traffic and tourists. I may not be as quick off the mark as yourself, but it's a lot of fun to think to myself things like "yeah that's right" or "oh that's new" to your routes and just keep my London knowledge ticking over. Cheers mate!
On German buses and trains, where you can flap in the upper part of some windows as emergency ventilation will have a sticker saying "Air condition is working most efficiently with windows closed." Usually that helps a lot. In my car the AC is set to 21 all year long...
For what it's worth, I set my car's AC to 20, and most of the time I'm comfortable. But if I've been out in the heat all day, as some of your passengers could have been, I turn it right down to 18 until I cool off, and when it starts to get too cold, I turn it back to 20. 22 is a bit warm for me. I like it cold. Also, was that guy hailing you down at 12:23? Might have missed one there! I love videos like this. Thank you for taking the time to edit and upload them.
Great videos mate. I'm debating doing the knowledge. I'm currently a heating engineer but fed up of the hard labour and paperwork. Only advice I could give if you're fed up of the aircon convo, would be to maybe put the aircon on around 19.5-20°. 22° is warm imo.
Sitting in my room in Whitechapel watching this on a March afternoon when it’s been nothing but stormy and under 5 degrees all day while the sun comes down before 6pm. man I miss the summer London days in this video. Great music choices in this one too
Love these videos Tom - as a video editor myself I know how much work will go into them, but hope you continue with them every so often. Keep up the great work! I'm still traumatised by trying to navigate Oxford Street as a visually impaired person (one of the big drivers in me starting to use a cane!). It was a nightmare! I can't imagine trying to drive down it!
Some of these passengers make me scratch my head, like if you're already at Paddington station and want to get to Holloway Road station then surely you might as well just jump on the Underground and pay 3.20/2.60 rather than 25-30 in a taxi when it is going to take roughly the same amount of time anyway (not a knock at Tom or black cabs at all!), I could understand it more if it was a group of people sharing
Your Sunday Summary is fantastic! Love knowing what’s going on in your life. You’ve always got nifty recommendations and I love your perspective. Compared to myself, you’re an intellectual! Hearing you go on about those topics makes stuff feel almost attainable to understand lol
Love you pointing the Acol Bridge Club in West End Lane. Other dedicated bridge clubs in central London include TGRs Club at Craven Road/Westbourne Terrace, the London Mindsports Centre in Dalling Road Hammersmith (the former Salvation Army Hall), the Andrew Robson Club in Parsons Green Lane right by the tube station and others in the suburbs. All the Pall Mall/West End Clubs, Hurlingham, Roehampton, etc. have bridge sections but they tend to be for members and guests. No worries, there are a ton of other places where regular players can get a weekly game and tourists are always welcome if they want a game too. The annual Inter-Livery Company bridge tournament is this Monday (March 6th) at Drapers Hall. Does the Hackney Carriage Drivers Company have a team? If not why not?
Hi Tom Great video as per usual. Have been in London a lot lately and have had some great conversations with cabbies. Hopefully sometime soon I’ll get to have a conversation with you
Ah: The Strand. In Auckland, NZ, The Strand is both a street and a long distance train station on that road. I spotted a new trainee not knowing the booking from a hotel at 6am Saturday was going there instead of Britomart (within Auckland about 5 minutes away). I was comfortable making the assumption due to local train closures that are still going on for flood-proofing and other repairs and the fact that long-distance trains aren't as frequent during the week.
Oh saying that Tom, me being a coach driver, a weekend is the worst time to be working especially when everyone is off for the weekend and all the roads are busy, especially Liverpool Street (bishopsgate).
Just a point to the air con not being enough for some people. If they was walking about for some time in the heat they could be hot from that also. Where as you have been sitting. Just might help with understanding
I''ve just discovered your channel and am loving watching the London 'tours'. Your knowledge is - obviously - awesome. Gotta say tho, man, most of the cyclists down there are crazy.
Great insight Tom, thank you for sharing your drive on a Friday. I am already a subscriber to your cracking newsletter. Well done. Hell from London, N2 : - )
Re the passengers who wanted 'Poland St, Tottenham Court Road'... they probably wanted the 'Z Hotel Tottenham Court Road' on Poland St. I had this last week in the cab and was just as confused. Just a badly named hotel.
15:19 In my first 5 months of working at call centre (excluding my first month as a trainee), I disliked working on Fridays because it was the busiest day of the week from August to December just before school finishes. I think the floods in January gave me a different perspective. I was probably also worn down from working on Sundays as most drivers take the day off, and even buses have diversions for events, so I still am anxious even before I go to work, and still imagined how it could had been if I was called into work today.
Another good video, however if I have the Aircon in my car sat at 22° I literally melt. I know us northerners are more immune to the cold but by 20° I need shorts and a t-shirt .
can't fault the customers for thinking the ac isn't working when its set to 22c tho. Thats still plenty warm, especially if the door was just open with them getting in.
It's climate control, so doesn't actually mean 22. That's just the most comfortable setting I've found. In the winter 22 runs warm. In the summer 22 runs cool.
I still absolutely love the fact that you include all the clips of cyclists and other red light jumpers with absolutely no commentary on the issue. Silent judgement is the best.
You're more awake in DST, but I just prefer it organically be sunset or nightfall when I finish work. This is why I dislike finishing my shift at 3 or 4pm like schoolkids.
Tom I've watched about 80% of your videos before today I realised Im not subscribed so sorted that out, Great work. Anyway Lower Roberts street please Driver
Seeing your videos is always quite relaxing. Ever thought of making a hyperlapse of your shift with some smooth music? I think that could be very fun to watch.
Another great upload, doing what Tom does best, showing us what a day in the life of a London cabbie' is like. And TfL drastically slowing down the traffic with even more unnecessary under used cycle lanes.
4:48 Since COVID, having air con is like a debate. I like mine as cold as a produce fridge in a supermarket, especially now that all buses don't have windows. The call centre isn't cold enough for me, yet I never really ask for my cabs home to be super cold. Because I live with my family that can't even have air conditioning at all, I make do with making my fans as cold as they can be.
26:32 Ah, I once caught a Didi to go to work 2 days after January floods, and I should had dinged the driver for over-reliance on Google Maps rather than "Not using GPS".
When was the video shot? Date 4th March 2023 and the temperature is around 5ºC nobody asks for the A/C at that temperature. OK maybe an Inuit but no one else. Being the UK maybe 24º C and above if you have a fur on. This has to be a bit of London in late winter promotion. Hope your getting a good kickback Tom. 9:23 and then you tell us it’s the height of summer.
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You've put out a lot of great content Tom, but videos like this of you going about your work day are still my favourite!
Just about to post exactly the same thing. No need now, you've covered it nicely.
@@lyndonmaddison5860 I agree, getting boring now. Zzzzzzzzzz
Mine too :)
I hope he continue.
Nobody else can make me watch a 30 minute video about their job quite like Tom can.
Agreed!
Every video is a joy, Tom, but the shift videos are the bread and butter of this channel! I absolutely love seeing them, and I always wish that they go on for longer than they do.
I had to laugh, I have a colleague who likes to tell the cab driver which way to go because he thinks he knows best and he always opens the windows and asks for the aircon to be turned on even when it clearly already was before he opened the windows! Most of us avoid getting into the same cab as him as he always the last to arrive at the destination due to him 'knowing best' !
Hiya Tom, just thought I'd leave this here. I'm a Londoner born and bred, and I used to work jobs that got me driving all across London, so I like to think that I know my way about a bit. I now live in Edinburgh, and although I'd never admit it amongst friends, I do miss home from time to time. Thank you for uploading shifts like these. Your videos are such a joy to watch, to see my old stomping ground and share a laugh or two about traffic and tourists. I may not be as quick off the mark as yourself, but it's a lot of fun to think to myself things like "yeah that's right" or "oh that's new" to your routes and just keep my London knowledge ticking over. Cheers mate!
If u ever need cab in Edinburgh your welcome 🤗
Can now do typical January/Feb/Mar workling in London, compare how it differs throughout the year :)
On German buses and trains, where you can flap in the upper part of some windows as emergency ventilation will have a sticker saying "Air condition is working most efficiently with windows closed." Usually that helps a lot.
In my car the AC is set to 21 all year long...
For what it's worth, I set my car's AC to 20, and most of the time I'm comfortable. But if I've been out in the heat all day, as some of your passengers could have been, I turn it right down to 18 until I cool off, and when it starts to get too cold, I turn it back to 20. 22 is a bit warm for me. I like it cold. Also, was that guy hailing you down at 12:23? Might have missed one there!
I love videos like this. Thank you for taking the time to edit and upload them.
Thanks, yea it’s more of a climate control thing… so 22 runs hot in winter, but cold in summer.
YESS! Best kind of Tom videos!
Great videos mate. I'm debating doing the knowledge. I'm currently a heating engineer but fed up of the hard labour and paperwork.
Only advice I could give if you're fed up of the aircon convo, would be to maybe put the aircon on around 19.5-20°.
22° is warm imo.
Sitting in my room in Whitechapel watching this on a March afternoon when it’s been nothing but stormy and under 5 degrees all day while the sun comes down before 6pm. man I miss the summer London days in this video.
Great music choices in this one too
Given up reading all newspapers now so I do look forward to your Sunday news letter. I am over 7 decades old but your content is always interesting
Love these videos Tom - as a video editor myself I know how much work will go into them, but hope you continue with them every so often. Keep up the great work!
I'm still traumatised by trying to navigate Oxford Street as a visually impaired person (one of the big drivers in me starting to use a cane!). It was a nightmare! I can't imagine trying to drive down it!
My favourite part of the newsletter is the 'what I'm reading'. Always looking for book recommendations.
How have I only just found your channel?! It’s amazing! The chat, edit, story telling. Keep the uploads coming 👍🏻
Cheers Hannah! working on the story telling bit haha
Love your work! collab soon?
@@TomtheTaxiDriver you’re so good at it! Yeah sure! Although I know nothing about London compared to you 😂
Some of these passengers make me scratch my head, like if you're already at Paddington station and want to get to Holloway Road station then surely you might as well just jump on the Underground and pay 3.20/2.60 rather than 25-30 in a taxi when it is going to take roughly the same amount of time anyway (not a knock at Tom or black cabs at all!), I could understand it more if it was a group of people sharing
People may have a lot of luggage, or they may be on a business trip and get it expensed.
some people just hate using the underground.
22 is a bit toasty for me personally, especially if I've been rushing about all day! 18 all the way! 😂
Climate control. 22 is warm in winter but cold in summer
I really do enjoy your newsletter Tom 👌
Love this, how about taxi bingo? See if you can get hotel, station, POI, restaurant etc in a day/week.......
That guy asking if his light is on, I can just feel his pain right there...
Another entertaining day on the mean streets of London. I hope @CyclingMikey watches your videos. 👍🏻😀
Your Sunday Summary is fantastic! Love knowing what’s going on in your life. You’ve always got nifty recommendations and I love your perspective. Compared to myself, you’re an intellectual! Hearing you go on about those topics makes stuff feel almost attainable to understand lol
Good stuff Tom as always.
these shift vids are so fkn addictive
Yh roll on summer 2023 ☀🌞🕶🌅 winter is horrible dark all time
Love you pointing the Acol Bridge Club in West End Lane. Other dedicated bridge clubs in central London include TGRs Club at Craven Road/Westbourne Terrace, the London Mindsports Centre in Dalling Road Hammersmith (the former Salvation Army Hall), the Andrew Robson Club in Parsons Green Lane right by the tube station and others in the suburbs. All the Pall Mall/West End Clubs, Hurlingham, Roehampton, etc. have bridge sections but they tend to be for members and guests. No worries, there are a ton of other places where regular players can get a weekly game and tourists are always welcome if they want a game too. The annual Inter-Livery Company bridge tournament is this Monday (March 6th) at Drapers Hall. Does the Hackney Carriage Drivers Company have a team? If not why not?
Hi Tom
Great video as per usual.
Have been in London a lot lately and have had some great conversations with cabbies.
Hopefully sometime soon I’ll get to have a conversation with you
Threw me off with the leaves on the trees and the big sun in the sky, great vid as always Tom 🤙
Thanks Tom I love these vids, in London on the 21st I will look out for you🤞
Ah: The Strand.
In Auckland, NZ, The Strand is both a street and a long distance train station on that road. I spotted a new trainee not knowing the booking from a hotel at 6am Saturday was going there instead of Britomart (within Auckland about 5 minutes away).
I was comfortable making the assumption due to local train closures that are still going on for flood-proofing and other repairs and the fact that long-distance trains aren't as frequent during the week.
I couldn’t work in the city glad I taxi out in the countryside
Great video, the newsletters are a great addendum to the channel.
Oh saying that Tom, me being a coach driver, a weekend is the worst time to be working especially when everyone is off for the weekend and all the roads are busy, especially Liverpool Street (bishopsgate).
I'm loving your work Tom. It's like I'm getting a guided tour of London and its secrets. Oh btw fun fact I used to work at Paddington station
Hard to believe this is the summer. 😆. It’s March
It looked like it was a pretty warm weather there. People wearing shorts etc. We in Finland have snow ❄ and it's minus 6 degrees Celsius.
Just a point to the air con not being enough for some people. If they was walking about for some time in the heat they could be hot from that also. Where as you have been sitting. Just might help with understanding
Really enjoyable and informative video, as always, Tom👏👍
Sunday Summery is always good.
21 or 21.5 if I wanna be a bit warm. I do not even put 22 on as heating in winter.
Tom - great vid as ever. What’s your average mileage a day / year?
For me 22 degrees is too warm in any vehicle. I'd say 20 degrees is a safer place to be with it on a hot day.
Got it up at 25 during the winter lol. 21 is the classic AC middle ground
@@dreamcrusher112 I guess this is the problem that Tom the Taxi Driver faces... Trying to find something that works for everyone! 🤣
heat to 19 cool to 21
I like 18
This is the content I love the day in the job
Subscribed! Because I am a retired London multi drop driver. Parcels don't throw up.
22°? Wow! That’s what the women in our office like it to be.
Us men usually try and fight for 19°😂
fit a digital thermometer in the back of your cab. passengers can observe the true temperature in real time.
Excellent from a non taxi driving perspective, cheers Tom…👍👌🇮🇲
Auto 21 is recommended temperature comfortable for most people
First job - maybe cos I’m lazy I’d go along the top hat up York Way then get Market and McKenzie onto Holloway Road
Yea was splitting hairs. Mackenzie can get a bit clogged because of the Islington LTN's, especially on a Friday.
I''ve just discovered your channel and am loving watching the London 'tours'. Your knowledge is - obviously - awesome. Gotta say tho, man, most of the cyclists down there are crazy.
Is that the Wealdstone Raider on the bike jumping a red?
I look forward to the day that when I hail a cab on the streets of London, that it's Tom the Taxi Driver who I find. One day :)
Loved the weekday videos Tom! Great insight of a London Cabby!
Lol when was this video recorded, it’s freezing outside nowa days
22 a bit high 20-21 works well in any weather
Plot twist. The first woman that said "the temperature is nice" was being sarcastic
Great insight Tom, thank you for sharing your drive on a Friday. I am already a subscriber to your cracking newsletter. Well done. Hell from London, N2 : - )
Great stuff as always, Tom!
I will one day be in one of these videos! Bright green delivery van!
Love how relaxed these videos are. Have you tried heating the cab to 27 degrees
Re the passengers who wanted 'Poland St, Tottenham Court Road'... they probably wanted the 'Z Hotel Tottenham Court Road' on Poland St. I had this last week in the cab and was just as confused. Just a badly named hotel.
15:19 In my first 5 months of working at call centre (excluding my first month as a trainee), I disliked working on Fridays because it was the busiest day of the week from August to December just before school finishes. I think the floods in January gave me a different perspective.
I was probably also worn down from working on Sundays as most drivers take the day off, and even buses have diversions for events, so I still am anxious even before I go to work, and still imagined how it could had been if I was called into work today.
Another good video, however if I have the Aircon in my car sat at 22° I literally melt. I know us northerners are more immune to the cold but by 20° I need shorts and a t-shirt .
I missed them videos glad they are badt
Great video Tom love these sort of videos please so more
can't fault the customers for thinking the ac isn't working when its set to 22c tho. Thats still plenty warm, especially if the door was just open with them getting in.
It's climate control, so doesn't actually mean 22. That's just the most comfortable setting I've found.
In the winter 22 runs warm. In the summer 22 runs cool.
22C is in no way "plenty warm". Some of you would surly die of heat stroke if you moved further south. LOL
Hey Tom!
I still absolutely love the fact that you include all the clips of cyclists and other red light jumpers with absolutely no commentary on the issue. Silent judgement is the best.
Well that's an old video haha! Everyone wearing shorts, gives me summer feels already
You're more awake in DST, but I just prefer it organically be sunset or nightfall when I finish work. This is why I dislike finishing my shift at 3 or 4pm like schoolkids.
Brilliant thanks thanks tom
citystack is awesome! Love these videos atm
Another great video mate, keep it up! 👌🏼 🙌🏼
these videos are my favourite
My hero 🤩
Tom I've watched about 80% of your videos before today I realised Im not subscribed so sorted that out, Great work. Anyway Lower Roberts street please Driver
Morning love your videos
Was that cyclist who ran the red light, the Wealdstone raider!? Looked a lot like him haha
I love the Brueton Street my surname
Seeing your videos is always quite relaxing. Ever thought of making a hyperlapse of your shift with some smooth music? I think that could be very fun to watch.
I like to play the "why did Tom choose this particular cut?" game. With the answer usually being: because a cyclist is doing something daft
I know that these videos are a bit of a hustle, but could we get more of these full days in the job? Every now and then obviously. Thanks!
Another great upload, doing what Tom does best, showing us what a day in the life of a London cabbie' is like.
And TfL drastically slowing down the traffic with even more unnecessary under used cycle lanes.
4:48 Since COVID, having air con is like a debate. I like mine as cold as a produce fridge in a supermarket, especially now that all buses don't have windows.
The call centre isn't cold enough for me, yet I never really ask for my cabs home to be super cold. Because I live with my family that can't even have air conditioning at all, I make do with making my fans as cold as they can be.
aaah finally you drove past my street. Been waiting for that moment! :D
I need to move back to london.
Another great vlog
26:32 Ah, I once caught a Didi to go to work 2 days after January floods, and I should had dinged the driver for over-reliance on Google Maps rather than "Not using GPS".
Nice one!
Not a mystic Meg reference days before she died!
nice 1 again tom.
19/20c is a better temp driver
more o these - simples
Always had customers ask "how do you open the window" in my Vito.......
Hi Tom keep it up you are doing a great job and having fun making some brilliant videos superstar Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6
Padders to parkway over the top of the park? Hmmm 🤔
Based upon traffic that day. yep
Cyklist don't need to follow any traffic rules, everybody knows that 😉😅
When was the video shot? Date 4th March 2023 and the temperature is around 5ºC nobody asks for the A/C at that temperature.
OK maybe an Inuit but no one else.
Being the UK maybe 24º C and above if you have a fur on.
This has to be a bit of London in late winter promotion.
Hope your getting a good kickback Tom.
9:23 and then you tell us it’s the height of summer.
Bloody Camden! Bloody cyclists! Cracking video - thanks.
Love so much. Watching in Taiwan. Next time I’m in London I’d love it if you were the driver 😂