Love that you can do your drive videos again, find them a great way to relax, and love the smooth jazz you play, really relaxing. Havn't lived in London for over 18yrs now, so a great way to see the city. Keep up the great work Tom and glad you're back.

@ianburke8825

2 жыл бұрын

How is he able to now?

@jakesdiner

2 жыл бұрын

Has he addressed why they're allowed now? I never understood why they were blocked, seemed mutually beneficial to TFL

@TheCloudhopper

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakesdiner He said he didn't want to go into detail regarding TfL's initial concerns out of respect for his relationship with TfL. The fact that he is releasing again is I think a sign they found a mutual agremeent. I wouldn't expect him to share any details though.

@JonasGrene

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakesdiner He commented on his first new driving video that the LTDA (his union) liaised with Transport for London to understand what the areas of concern were. In short, the initial letter he received was not a direct concern about him, but rather the safety and privacy implications of filming (like filming members of the public, his safety whilst driving, etc.). I've noticed he doesn't include the voices of his passengers anymore, and like always he won't handle the camera while driving.

@aviationdhuk

2 жыл бұрын

I agree so relaxing !

14:08 - I always thought that was a thank you gesture for letting him through

@DarkNight4090TI

Жыл бұрын

it is

40 years' experienced cab driver from Darwin, Australia. Not only do you have "the knowledge" but mate, you also have "the knack". Spent a year working all over London with little money, using buses, underground and shanks' pony to get around - great to traverse the old routes vicariously, but in style this time. Pedestrians, cyclists and escooter riders will never appreciate that they can always stop faster than a motor vehicle. LOve your work and attitude - keep it up - good rides and good luck for the future. Cheers.

Hi Tom, good to see the Royal Albert Hall make an appearance! I'm one of the managers of the stewarding team there and we often get asked about taxis. Being able to reliably tell people that they'll easily be able to hail a black cab from the high street outside is really valuable to the overall customer experience. Cheers to you and all the cabbies out there keeping the city moving 👍

Look forward to watching this Tom glad these type of vids are back and rolling

@FelixNBR

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's so awesome, but what changed? I thought TFL weren't happy with these kinds of videos, did I miss something? But it's lovely to see this videos back on the channel, they are more than great!

@jamesstevenson9340

2 жыл бұрын

@@FelixNBR I think him and his union came into an agreement or something can't fully remember. I know saw some reason in the comments in o e of his last videos

@baconoverflow4384

2 жыл бұрын

​@@FelixNBR My guess would be that Tom agreed to blur people's faces out (e.g. 7:28) and not upload audio of conversations. Makes sense to be honest. That way, everyone's happy.

@mrstanhope1516

2 жыл бұрын

Glad he can shoe these again as found them really interesting.

Don't know why, but I love watching these ''A day in the life'' kind of vids.

Great to see the driving videos are back. You are a great ambassador for the Black Cab trade.

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben 👍🏻

Tom, not knowing The Smoke particularly well, apart from the football grounds, to watch your travels around town is both a joy and an education. Thank you and keep posting.

Just in awe of your knowledge of London Tom and really enjoy “driving” with you.

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard, I love The Knowledge of London and it’s something all of us cabbies have 👍🏻

I like this format where you drive and then show your journey on a map. For me this is simple and elegant. Do you have any more like it? Thanks. Greetings from Cold Cornwall!!

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I will be making plenty more 👍🏻

@MatthewChapmanYT

2 жыл бұрын

Kernow Byz Vyken

Very interesting tom. I drive a luton van all over the country but out of all our drivers i enjoy London the most!! It makes me feel alive. Love the channel

Really enjoyed this tom! Brilliant video. Great to see the streets of London again! Tempting me to jump back on my local circuit. Ive been school running it the last few months! Look forward too the next one buddie!

Shift vids are the best vids. Binging like there is no tomorrow.

It's so strange as a foreigner watching how London is build. The roads are so narrow, and almost never straight, they are bending and winding all over the place xD I wonder if this all goes back to when people walked and most of these roads are just paths than was eventually converted to roads. I definitely get a sort of maze vibe when watching the video.

@olamide6712

2 жыл бұрын

The large majority of it grew organically as opposed to using a strict planning system where specific designs for streets would be built. Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians etc. all contributed to making the built environment look like this today

Good to see the driving videos are back, even if a little curtailed compared to the originals, miss the banter and the way you were able to tell us the way live as it were. However liking the map drawing segments showing us on the map the route you are taking as it gives a more detalied view the roads around your route as well as the ones you will be using rather than just saying "head west along so and so road and left into...." keep up the good work.

Marleybone is the home of London's least known terminus station (yes, less known than Fenchurch Street) and also Lord's!

@plumbeats4573

2 жыл бұрын

Marylebone is the most known for me because the rail line from my town to London always goes to there. Been there too many times

@fetchstixRHD

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow, I remember Marylebone more than Fenchurch Street - mostly because with the c2c trains, I'd guess a lot of people get off at West Ham etc whereas you'd have to go into/from Marylebone for Chiltern trains 🤔

These videos are outstanding Tom. Keep at it mate. You deserve 100x the view count but the audience will come in time.

Another great vid, love how theraputic these vids are so easy to watch and like how you explain the routes on the map. A random find of your channel but glad it exists. get in there/

This really shows why important the knowledge is so good, first of all you don't miss any fares and if there's an incident you can take a different without waiting for the sat nav to pick-up the problem and divert you or you forcing it to take an alternative route (that everyone else with google maps is probably taking)

Good to see Battersea, where I grew up. You drove right past the end of the road I lived in from aged 16 to 25. 😊

I love these videos so much!! It’s sooo interesting watching you casually work your way through the back alleys etc! Thanks man 👌🏼🤙🏼

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir 👍🏻 see you on the next one

I appreciate the editing that goes in to these videos 👍 chill music and great visuals

Loving the videos Tom glad you're back filming in the cab

Keep em coming Tom these are cracking vlogs love seeing all over London it's one hell of a place, only ever been twice and last time must of been 30 years ago!!!

I would have never thought there was a cabbie twitter! I am from a small city in Canada, who has always read a lot about Britain, so I know about some of these neighbourhoods and places. Really cool to see the routes through the city!

Brilliant video Tom as usual Mate always a pleasure to watch

Glad to see the driving videos are back. Was missing them like mad

thanks for plotting your route...great videos Tom...keep up the good work

Missed these Taxi shift videos. Welcome back hope to see more! 😁

Sooooo happy this kind of content is back!!

I guess the concern from TFL is privacy etc? Is this why we don't hear the passenger anymore and the route is now shown as text?

Just stumble across your channel Amazing how you remember all those routes I love looking around London and now I've found a great channel to drive around it Great narrative to go with it Thanks

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter, it’s what every London cabby has to do to get their badge!

Keep up the good work Tom. Love the vids.

I love getting to know London through your videos!

I work west London on the emergency ambulances, always keeping an eye out for you!

@jamesjameson4566

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds ominous 👀

Glad to see videos of you on the road are back Tom!

I could watch these for hours! Love the little mews crossing! I know you have done a few videos on expenses etc, but to go along side your superb black line map, how about a daily running total, gross or net, if not to private. Also Would really love to see the differences between a cabbie in the hey day and now the modern internet age, wonder if you could get a good old boy on to have a little chinwag

Really like these relaxed driving videos.

i lived in london and surrey on and off for many years . based in chelsea barracks and caterham in the 70s and early 80s . huge respect for your knowledge . i am now a retired private hire driver on merseyside 25 years . we had to do a knowledge , but nothing anywhere near like london . cab and private hire are so different , but one thing we have in common , the work is never where where you are . lol

Great video. Might be worth remembering if you're around East London when the troxy Hall on commercial Road finishes an event, there's so many people after a cab.

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, so many areas where demand outstrips supply. Printworks is another good example.

A short foray into South West London, maybe next time you'll dive deeper into soth' London. But can appreciate why you stay central as much as you can. Really helpful the way you show your journey's on the map.

Just subscribed, this is the kind of channel I enjoy 1 of the unsung heroes of London

Perfect unwind video to watch before bed

I have no idea why I like watching this

Would be a cool to generate a heat map over time of the roads you use, my motorcycles GPS generates one and it's fun to look at.

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Hyde Park Corner would be solid red for me haha! But yes, would be interesting to see as there's some roads that I never use even if they are fairly central (the very top of Sloane Street for example).

@larsmenken2679

2 жыл бұрын

Jake, what’s your motorcycle gps please?

Nice one Tom. Good to see you out and about again

I like these videos Tom... it's a magical mystery tour for me.

Love these videos , keep them up 👍🏻

I must be getting old. I’m enjoying watching REAL taxi. Subscribed even.

Hey Tom! I used to do exactly the same thing during kipper season. I’d head into Camden and Swiss Cottage for fares and places like Battersea too. I left the trade recently due to TfL’s 12/13/15 age rule making it very hard to make a good living in the cab. Unfortunately TFL post pandemic were completely unhelpful to myself on the 15 year age rule where I had to give up a perfectly healthy cab that should have seen through into its 15th year. As you know TFL moved the goalposts.

Great road footage, really informative!

Nice to see the POV videos back mate!

just discovered this channel today by chance and am instantly addicted to it. liked & subscribed. i'm an investment bank bond trader but in the next life i want to be a taxi driver.

Tom, I just happened to stumble on one of your KZread videos - and I'm already hooked! I find it so much fun watching how you conduct your job! Great channel +1 Sub 🙂

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your time to watch, there’s plenty more to come!

Another enjoyable video, Tom. Keep them coming. As an aside, I assume as part of you posting again you've decided not to show the fares or feature the voices of the passengers?

Like many others have said, these 'in cab' videos are very relaxing. Unfortunately, the black cab drivers are really suffering here in Glasgow due to the impact of Covid and other factors. You mentioned fuel costs Tom - I thought your cab was fully electric but I'm assuming it's a hybrid? It would be great if you could do a video review of the cab itself as the electric versions are very nice indeed.

Glad you managed to get these sort of videos past TfL. I really like them. Also makes me wanna do the Knowledge, knowing that in January 2021, there's still a good demand for a black cab.

@cityzens634

2 жыл бұрын

January 2022 too 🤣 try and keep up 😉

@framedman

2 жыл бұрын

@@cityzens634 😂, whoops.

@manifernandez6300

2 жыл бұрын

Best time to do the knowledge if there ever was one! This year will be one hell of a busy one....believe you me. Loving these videos Tom driving the cab....as it is👌🏻

@baconoverflow4384

2 жыл бұрын

@@framedman Haha I've been making that mistake this whole month! I think it's because 2021 was a bit of a blur with everything that's going on... although better than 2020 tbh

Yes Tom so glad you can upload again. Will you be uploading younold content again?

I just wasted 14 minutes and 43 seconds of my life, and that’s not including the ads. Thank you Tom

Love your vids. To me, the ✋🏻 even at zebra crossings just means “sorry to keep you waiting mate, cheers”

Love the content mate

Loving the videos Tom from a Newcastle hackney driver 👍

Tom would love to see you at the Taxi rank outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital someday (where I work!)

After a great day at work it is nice to see others having a great day at work. In a city I might spend some of what I earned to day, some day.

In the 40s and 50s Harley Street was also known as Pill Island ✌🏻

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Love that! thank you!

@schlongdaddy

2 жыл бұрын

My dad was a cabbie and I’m into my 34 year now and I have his badge✌🏻

Another good video Tom👍

At 14:06 I think that he done what most of us would do, being to choose the shortest route possible. there was already someone on the zebra crossing so you weren't going anywhere. also in London that hand gesture is usually given as a sign of thanks along with the obvious thumbs up. good content btw

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

You do get people who push it though, who just step in front of moving traffic and try and stop the traffic

Tom your a poet and we know it 💯

These real life videos are excellent.

Always good to know in a licensed cab you have priority on the road with a flag down ,have to do a u turn good .

I prefer this style of shift video to the more recent ones, especially with the music - much more zen-y

I'm really glad you've found a way to do these videos that TFL is satisfied with. I think I actually slightly prefer this format to the one they kicked up a fuss about.

@jackdavis8786

2 жыл бұрын

Why what happened?

@jsl4228

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackdavis8786 He had to take down a bunch of videos which had been kind of POV taxi driver videos showing some of his journeys etc. TFL had raised some objections. I did really like those videos, but to be honest I do prefer this new style - feels slightly more professional and a little easier to watch, whilst still being very enjoyable.

Great video Tom 👍🏻

Great video - more like this please!

So glad to see these videos back! How did you negotiate this with TFL? I assume not broadcasting passengers voices?

Enjoyed the video!

Love the upload rate. Really enjoy watching bro. Keep it up. I wanna see you get a silver KZread plaque, maybe even a custom created one in the not so distant future!

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex 👍🏻

You should do a video on how you spot hails. I’m the videos I find it so impressive that you can spot someone in a crowd waving whilst driving in london!

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Just a raised arm does it. Sometimes it’s hard as people hail, think you’ve seen them, then put their arm down. I have been caught out by pictures, people hailing buses and there’s even one statue in the city of a guy hailing a cab 😂

The driving vids are back lets goooo

What an addictive channel Tom

Great Video mate! It would be interesting to see a video on your views on the new highway codes and how you think it will impact the streets.

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

I’m genuinely concerned about the new Highway codes 😞

@finalfootage2377

2 жыл бұрын

@@TomtheTaxiDriver I am so glad you agree Tom, I’m a collection driver for royal mail doing postboxes and post offices and the new rules scare me😂

H iTom just subscribed makes me want to to get back out there. Like the Heathrow vlog

Thanks Tom I really do enjoy you vids!!! However any chance of up loading them in the evening so I don’t have to stop work during the day to watch😂😂😂 ✌️❤️

I hope you continue these videos great

Hi Tom . Love seeing what it’s like for a London cabbie ! I’m a Hackney driver in Glasgow . What’s so noticeable is the difference in the road surface in London to Glasgow ! I bought a tx4 from London last year and wasn’t a rattle . Give it a couple months up here and your shoogling along with loads of rattles because of the potholes ! Keep up the good work .

@piece_cntrl_lenny3851

2 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling,i'm a Cabbie in Edinburgh and the roads are shocking 😣

Love your videos.👋👋

So happy that you can make driving videos now. Just keep it low on the music haha

Well done Tom 👍

Enjoyed that!

Lovely to see you have a way around producing videos and not breaking the KZread rules lol

Welcome back.

cant you make the old style of the shift videos, i loved them

Safe travels

Hi Tom. What are your thoughts on the changes to the highway code? Love your stuff btw!

For me being SE London. I just call it "Maryley-Bone" (Marley as in Bob Marley)

Your content is surprising interesting. Good videos

Great video Tom more hopefully Liam taxi driver irl 🇨🇮

I pronounce Marylebone how you do Tom in the first instance, otherwise I call it Bone marrow 🤣

@EarlSquirrelsonn

2 жыл бұрын

Mar-le-bun 🙂

@liamski1765

2 жыл бұрын

@@EarlSquirrelsonn meaning "bun of marmite" for short right? ........ Riiiiight???? 🤔😂

Tom loving your videos. Please could you make a video going further south into Wimbledon and Morden.

@TomtheTaxiDriver

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh now that is pretty far south, I’d definitely need a refresher on my knowledge

BBC pronouncing dictionary says Marrilebon - it also says Kunduit for Conduit St, etc. Worth trying to get a copy although it’s been out of print for many years.