Rainy London Taxi Shift: WHAT Happens When It Pours?

how is watching and hearing tom talking about his shift and all those routes so calming?!? its amazing

I love watching your videos since you explain the roads and wyas to get to certain place amd in mind, i'm like "yep, checks out" 😂

Like your videos I'm a Glasgow cabbie it's horrendous GCC want roads down to one lane or bike lanes .. getting to know the streets of old London town 😂

It'd be dope to be a taxi driver. Except for the times when its very much not dope.

How long ago did you film the chase Tom ?

Please take out the plugs bro.

Love the shift videos. Please don’t ever stop them, they’re so enjoyable

Great vids tomorrow currently on my blue book 3 your videos help me realize what a great choice ive made.

I work not far from Marylebone road

Hey Tom! Just stumbled across your videos, and so glad I have. I love London (lived in SW as a kid). I visit regularly and avoid the tourist areas and explore further afield. all over. Great your commentary pointing out the streets and your choice of routes, and the marking on the map.
You mentioned 'The Knowledge'. Is that still a thing? It must be mental to learn all that. How long did it take you to get so good?
Take care and stay safe bro!

FYI the north side of Lambeth bridge is being turned from zebras into traffic lights (hence the works until Feb 2025).
Motivation is the northern junction is the most dangerous junction in London in terms of cycle collisions.

The southern junction is also getting changed to separate out the cycle lanes I believe.

As a Londoner this is very interesting to watch, but must be absolutely fascinating for people from different shores to properly see the guts of our city.

I’m a cyclist and the front, rear and yes side lights on my bike cost me £180. I also HATE cyclists without lights. Within the cycling community we refer to those cyclists as “Stealth death wish cyclists”

It's funny you mention between 8-9pm going quiet because it's the same where i'm from as well in Torbay, always seems to die down around that time.

Do you make your own thumbnails?!! They are so good!!

Pedestrians really just walk whenever wherever they want!!!!!

Hi,my levc taxi rear side left passenger door door opener lighting and piping even door closed do know y?please help me

Love the shift videos as always Tom! What's the purpose of the tent city? Protests of some sort?

biggg shift

How useful is Google Maps for identifying road closures?

Thanks for the video. Regarding your job picking up at The Landmark, could you also have left by Harewood Avenue, L Marylebone Rd, R Upper Montagu St, L Crawford St, to get the right into Gloucester Place. Just wondering if this works and is ok. Thanks.

As a bewildered American we appreciate your service!

Hey Tom! Amazing video - can you explain how advertising works on taxis and the pros and cons of it all?

Thank you Tom - So happy to see your brilliant "Shift Videos" are back, this one was absolutely fantastic! Ideal viewing on a rainy Sunday evening. 5* content, please keep them coming, we really appreciate and enjoy them mate.

I have 2 questions:

- you've talked about unspoken/unofficial rules between taxi drivers, but do taxi drivers have unspoken/unofficial rules with other professional drivers (Bus or any other) or maybe doormen or anyone else?

- You had a few passengers wanting you to stop in weird places where you really couldn't... what other common "mistakes for passengers" do taxi drivers make that need context for passengers?

Love your stuff Tom,great ambassador for the trade,may I ask yourself or any cab driver reading this.Mount st is a pain to drive,what’s happened to Stanhope gate? Is it shut now? I still have my green badge but not worked it since 2016.cheers

Putney on the last job was a real kick in the chops!

Are you a Freeman of the City of London? If so I would love to see the story behind how this happened.
Saw the scroll in the background.

Love it

Tom, do you sell your updated versions of London Cabbie runs, for students of the Knowledge/other interested people?

Thanks for putting out a new shift video, I enjoy them a lot. I know they take a lot of work for you to create. Thank you.

Sound not too good on this one Tom. Sounds a bit muffled, not enough 'Treble'. Cheers.

Love that the shift videos are back

This is an Accidental Partridge goldmine

Hank Marvin = Starving

Lovely weather we’re having ☔️

Tom Question
A lot of Black cab drivers dislike Uber because of how they operate etc (around 45,000 in London)
How would you feel is Uber disappeared and all those 45,000 Uber drivers became Black cab drivers?
Wouldn’t that be bad for you?
I’m Hackney in Local town which has a lot of Private hire but now council has removed the Hackney limit now a lot of the Private hire drivers who used to pick up illegally have got Hackneys now which is ruining our work

a day such as this calls for a Brick Ln. bagel, I reckon

Tom, will you consider doing a video for anyone thinking about starting the knowledge. Including setup where to start what to do first, all the equipment needed (books maps pens ect) and the costs, where to get the equipment from, any other charges and fees, things available now that are helpful you wish were available when you were doing the knowledge. Things you would've done different that you feel would have improved how to do the knowledge now you have some experience as a taxi driver and anything else you can add you think would be helpful to someone starting or thinking about doing the knowledge. Just an idea maybe you could put together a few starter packs as a giveaway for the video if you could get a sponsor on board.

I thought we were not getting anymore shift videos?

how do you deal with road rage? or people raging with you.

Appreciate all the work and effort that goes in to bringing us a shift video! Thanks Tom!!

God bless you for taking those sick kids to Disney. 🫡

I really wish you would add in how much you earn during the shift at the end of the video. It would be so interesting and wouldn't come across as braggy at all if that's a worry to you. I understand a lot of people have probably asked for this before because it would be such a great addition to the video!

Happy Birthday Tom if that Chipotle birthday 2 in 1 promo you mentioned is recent.

I love your shift videos and it is really helping with my London geography! Are you allowed to turn down jobs if they are too far in the wrong direction for you? Thanks for all your awesome content.