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Originally posted by jonav
This reminds me of an incident with a taxi guy in TO. I was to visit our lawyer’s office for some paperwork with my two kids (aged 4 at that time). I took a cab from our hotel and asked the Chinese taxi driver to take me to the address, on the way he gives me his card and says when I need to go back from here, I can call him. By the time we reached the lawyer's office my kids were sleeping in the cab, he helped me pick them up and drop them upstairs...etc....in the whole commotion I forgot my back pack which had our passports and other necessary PR papers in his taxi.
Thankfully I had his card and my purse in hand, I called him on his phone and he informed me he was already on his way back as he also noticed my bag on the seat. Not only did he came back in 5 minutes to drop my bag, he waited all the time I was with lawyer for me and kids....without charging anything extra. I did tip him well for his kind gesture......but what was notable was his un-materialistic attitude towards us.
Sorry, it’s just off the topic but I felt like sharing!
Jona
Hi jonav,
do you still have his no.?
can u pl PM or mail me that?
tks
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Originally posted by jonav
This reminds me of an incident with a taxi guy in TO. I was to visit our lawyer’s office for some paperwork with my two kids (aged 4 at that time). I took a cab from our hotel and asked the Chinese taxi driver to take me to the address, on the way he gives me his card and says when I need to go back from here, I can call him. By the time we reached the lawyer's office my kids were sleeping in the cab, he helped me pick them up and drop them upstairs...etc....in the whole commotion I forgot my back pack which had our passports and other necessary PR papers in his taxi.
Thankfully I had his card and my purse in hand, I called him on his phone and he informed me he was already on his way back as he also noticed my bag on the seat. Not only did he came back in 5 minutes to drop my bag, he waited all the time I was with lawyer for me and kids....without charging anything extra. I did tip him well for his kind gesture......but what was notable was his un-materialistic attitude towards us.
Sorry, it’s just off the topic but I felt like sharing!
Jona
Hi Jona,
Please send me the cab drivers number...I will be landing at toronto in June with my wife and 4 yr old daughter..will be staying there for couple of weeks and it will be very helpfull if we can have a dependable cabbie with us. Toronto will be new and totaly unknown to us. So, I would really appreciate ur help.
Peace
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Originally posted by sifarsen
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Originally posted by jonav
This reminds me of an incident with a taxi guy in TO. I was to visit our lawyer’s office for some paperwork with my two kids (aged 4 at that time). I took a cab from our hotel and asked the Chinese taxi driver to take me to the address, on the way he gives me his card and says when I need to go back from here, I can call him. By the time we reached the lawyer's office my kids were sleeping in the cab, he helped me pick them up and drop them upstairs...etc....in the whole commotion I forgot my back pack which had our passports and other necessary PR papers in his taxi.
Thankfully I had his card and my purse in hand, I called him on his phone and he informed me he was already on his way back as he also noticed my bag on the seat. Not only did he came back in 5 minutes to drop my bag, he waited all the time I was with lawyer for me and kids....without charging anything extra. I did tip him well for his kind gesture......but what was notable was his un-materialistic attitude towards us.
Sorry, it’s just off the topic but I felt like sharing!
Jona
Hi Jona,
Please send me the cab drivers number...I will be landing at toronto in June with my wife and 4 yr old daughter..will be staying there for couple of weeks and it will be very helpfull if we can have a dependable cabbie with us. Toronto will be new and totaly unknown to us. So, I would really appreciate ur help.
Peace
Hi, Unfortunately I don't have his card any more, I can look in my purses but no sure, please note that this was in 2008. But he was a regular taxi guy at "Cambridge Suites Hotel" in downtown Toronto, that's where we stayed and I saw him everyday over there. He's an old guy with a very common name, Peter or David....I'm not sure. Sorry this is of no help.
Jona
A chinese taxi driver?? Thats a rare find
understands english and will do something nice for no money... that's really a rare combinatin to find 
I had the opposite experience where the cabbie charged me twice when i discovered that he had never returned my credit card to me and he had to drive back like 10 mins to come back to me!
Anyway, the taxi drivers here are definitely less unruly than many metro cities in NY with Manhattan of course taking the cake! Look at it this way, if your daily income depended on how many poeple u can pick up in a day, you'd be in a mad rush too
Peace!
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Originally posted by guptamik
understands english and will do something nice for no money... that's really a rare combinatin to find
I had the opposite experience where the cabbie charged me twice when i discovered that he had never returned my credit card to me and he had to drive back like 10 mins to come back to me!
Anyway, the taxi drivers here are definitely less unruly than many metro cities in NY with Manhattan of course taking the cake! Look at it this way, if your daily income depended on how many poeple u can pick up in a day, you'd be in a mad rush too
Peace!
Hey, he could have been a Korean, vietnamese, I'm not sure, I did'nt even ask him his nationality....but he was a Asian with those features!
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http://www.toronto.ca/taxitraining/index.htm
If you have a compliment or complaint about a taxicab driver, contact Licensing Services at taxiline (@) toronto.ca or call 1-877-TO-TAXIS.
When filing a complaint, just ensure that you have a witness. I'm sure they'll ask for one, otherwise how do you prove your statement
How am I supposed to find a witness for rash/bad driving in general? Maybe drivers in Toronto have become oblivious to bad cab drivers. The only thing I can do is to note down their license plate number.
I once asked the same question. The cop answered that if there are too many incidents against one license plate, they will issue warning letters / explanation notices. Witnesses are good to have but not always possible, hence not mandatory.
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