Taxi drivers transport passengers to their required destinations. Taxi drivers are either called to a business or home, or hailed on the street.
Taxi drivers need to know the city they drive in very well, as their passenger may have never been where they are travelling before. Taxi Drivers drive special cars which have been licensed as a taxi to transport passengers for a fare that is calculated on a special meter. Taxi drivers often work shifts involving either day, evening, night or weekend work.
Taxi drivers may perform the following tasks:
- pick up passengers at designated locations
- pick up passengers when hailed
- determine the most appropriate route for their passengers
- transport passengers to their desired destinations
- receive money for fares and give change
- assist passengers with the handling of luggage
- attend to repairs, maintenance and cleaning of vehicles
As taxi drivers have close contact with the public they must provide a service that meets the standards of the taxi network for which they drive.
Taxi drivers need to have a high level of driving skill, and must also obtain a special taxi drivers license.
| Did You Know? The world's first taxi was built in 1897 by Gottlieb Daimler . It was called the "Daimler Victoria" and even had a taxi meter! On 16 June the same year the taxi was delivered to Stuttgart transportation entrepreneur Friedrich Greiner who used it to start the world's first motorised taxi company! |
