Kaminski Taxis

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gilesjuk

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Anyone have any problems with these guys?

It seems they are rather inconsiderate when parking/waiting for their customer to come out of their house. They've blocked my driveway twice when my neighbour has called them out. There is plenty of room to park by my neighbour without blocking me in.

Had similar problems with ASDA delivery people.

Don't they realise it is an offence to block people in? (you can block people out, but not in).
 
proactive

proactive

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I must admit I've never used them as the standard of driving their drivers display is so poor there's no way I would put my life in their hands.
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gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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I had the misfortune of parking in a taxi bay at Asda for all of 2 minutes (I know i was wrong but it was hacking down and the ladies needed a cashpoint) and one of their drivers blocked me in until he could tell me I was wrong! Having just come away from another funeral I wasnt in best of moods and he was fortunate not to become my first victim of road rage :grr:
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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gilbert grape said:
I had the misfortune of parking in a taxi bay at Asda for all of 2 minutes (I know i was wrong but it was hacking down and the ladies needed a cashpoint) and one of their drivers blocked me in until he could tell me I was wrong! Having just come away from another funeral I wasnt in best of moods and he was fortunate not to become my first victim of road rage :grr:
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Was that this monday? I was trying to drive off the carpark in the pouring rain.Saw a taxi drive up and he blocked both the person parked in the taxi bay and most of the road,as he sat in his taxi with it parked half way across the roadway. I did notice there were other taxi spaces available that he could have used and wondered why he was insistant on waiting to park in that one . That taxi driver certainly had no consideration for the other car users trying to squash past him.
 
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Bob

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The no drinking thing I've been on for the past 8 months means we've had no use for a taxi. Prior to finding out that I'm growing a small person inside me, we used them quite a bit.



Of all of them Kaminski were our preferred option, the service was (mostly) on time and efficient and on the whole their drivers seemed somewhere between good and ok, there was the odd exception but part of the reason we kept using them is because they could actually find out house.



Westside were the backup plan - although half of their drivers seemed to have a complete inability to follow even the most simple of directions, where we used to live, the sat nave would tend to direct a driver up a lane and couple of hundred yards after our house, so they get there, can't find us then ring up even though you'd explained it all to the person on the switch board already. We would then tell the driver, ' go back to xxxxx lane, turn left and a hundred yards up there is a driveway on the left round the bend (first left then first left) we're the second house (of only two) 10 minutes alter they'd call up saying they were in Doxey, Derrington or Whitgreve.

Worst service I've ever received from a taxi company was from Penkridge cabs who were over an hour late after a million phone calls, the driver could only be described as 'simple' and he drove like he was in a high speed police chase.
 
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Trumpet

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When I lived in Stafford I found Kaminskys to be pretty good on the whole, although a couple of years ago after a 100 + miles motorbike ride in some truly awful conditions, sleet, snow, hail etc I got to within 200 yards of home without incident only to have a Kaminsky driver rear end me. Cest la vie and all that.
 
gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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staffordjas said:
Was that this monday? I was trying to drive off the carpark in the pouring rain.Saw a taxi drive up and he blocked both the person parked in the taxi bay and most of the road,as he sat in his taxi with it parked half way across the roadway. I did notice there were other taxi spaces available that he could have used and wondered why he was insistant on waiting to park in that one . That taxi driver certainly had no consideration for the other car users trying to squash past him.
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It was. Like I say, I was in a space buti did notice there were others. It was pi55ing down and we weren't in a mood for hanging around apart from being blocked. Impertinence is not an appealing characteristic, especially when you have your name and number plastered down the side of the motor!
 
flossietoo

flossietoo

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I had an odd experience with a taxi driver (no idea which firm he worked for) a few years back when four of us were journeying back from a night out. A night out...perhaps it was more than a few years ago. I get very travel sick and always sit in the front of any vehicle, so I can look straight ahead. Everyone fell silent, while the driver kept chattering away to me. Suddenly, at the top of the rise out of Gnosall, he veered across the road and into the pull-in, where he turned the engine off and started pointing out to me the bright lights of Telford. By now, the people in the back seat feared that their presence may have been forgotten. A tactful solution came at length to my husband-to-be who lent forward, cleared his throat and memorably enquired: "Are you all right, darling, feeling sick?". The driver immediately resumed the journey home, which continued without incident until he reversed into our garden wall. Even now, on passing that point on the A518, I am occasionally nudged by my husband and asked whether I might be in the mood to gaze upon Telford. I never have been.
 
Scoot Doggy Dogg

Scoot Doggy Dogg

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flossietoo said:
I had an odd experience with a taxi driver (no idea which firm he worked for) a few years back when four of us were journeying back from a night out. A night out...perhaps it was more than a few years ago. I get very travel sick and always sit in the front of any vehicle, so I can look straight ahead. Everyone fell silent, while the driver kept chattering away to me. Suddenly, at the top of the rise out of Gnosall, he veered across the road and into the pull-in, where he turned the engine off and started pointing out to me the bright lights of Telford. By now, the people in the back seat feared that their presence may have been forgotten. A tactful solution came at length to my husband-to-be who lent forward, cleared his throat and memorably enquired: "Are you all right, darling, feeling sick?". The driver immediately resumed the journey home, which continued without incident until he reversed into our garden wall. Even now, on passing that point on the A518, I am occasionally nudged by my husband and asked whether I might be in the mood to gaze upon Telford. I never have been.
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A friend of mine had a taxi driver stop and admire the stars over Norton Bridge way some years ago. I think he was driving for aerobrights in those days. If I described the fella, you would undoubtedly confirm it was the same chap. He is still doing the rounds but I don't want to be pulled up for defammation of character or anything like that...
 
ATJ

ATJ

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Kaminski didn't turn up for a pre booked journey to a friend's wedding a couple of years ago, with the switchboard insisting the driver was stuck in traffic and 'only a couple of minutes up the Newport Road, nearly there, really'. They must really think we're stupid: when I gave up and drove to the venue, there was no congestion at all.
 
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AndyST17

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Scoot Doggy Dogg said:
A friend of mine had a taxi driver stop and admire the stars over Norton Bridge way some years ago. I think he was driving for aerobrights in those days. If I described the fella, you would undoubtedly confirm it was the same chap. He is still doing the rounds but I don't want to be pulled up for defammation of character or anything like that...
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I think this could be the same chap who stopped over the chase with my sister and showed her where he saw white deer, I used to get on with the guy very well but soon went off him! If it who I think I know he has moved out of stafford and no longer drives cabs!
 
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