Shanghaiist: Honk if you've been driving this long

nanheyangrouchuan

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:14:14 +0800

The driver is not always the one on the dashboard license, it is most obvious when the picture and the driver are not the same gender.

Lyn Jeffery

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:59:16 +0800

I actually ran into 0000001 in Beijing about 5 years ago. It was amazing. He was working for the Zhuyuan Guesthouse near the Drum Tower in Beijing, don't know if he's still there, as a house driver. His brother worked at the guesthouse. He was a great guy, in the Beijing cab driver style. I ran into a Chinese tv crew that very same day and tried to convince them to go directly to the guesthouse and shoot a story, but they didn't seem as excited as I was...

mark

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:48:22 +0800

I really like your writing style in this post and the one below about the airline giving too much head. I've been trying to figure out the taxis. I thought a driver will get 2 stars automatically once he has been driving for 3 years. That doesn't fit with your 1 star dude with his number starting with 00. To get 3 stars they need to take an exam, then they can get a whopping salary of 200 per month ontop of whatever percentage they get. If you can clear this up for me I'd really appreciate it - only for curiosity's sake.