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@t.o.
get cabs often with work, and I often try to steal (a little bit of The) Knowledge from them. very interesting. Basically they just have their routes, and they hop on the nearest one to where you are, and hop off it at the nearest point to where you are going. It normally works but not always.
I also got told that the new TX4s or whatever they are do about 7mpg, which is insane. I've been told they spend so much on fuel that they can't even recover VAT on all of it because the tax man thinks they MUST be trying to rip them off.
They all seem to complain about the [impending?] loss of the Fairway - which is even worse on emissions...*
*please note all opinions stated are derived from the back of a cab, are not my own, and may bear very little resemblence to the truth.