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17-09-2024, 03:22 AM | #1 | ||
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Recently saw this 1999 Mercedes C180 taxi in Melbourne (plate 6150M). Pretty crazy that someone can use a 25-year-old car as a taxi. That'd be like being in the year 2000 and someone still using a XB Falcon as a taxi, or in 2013 someone still driving an XF.
Remarkably, 42% of 1999 C-Classes are still registered. Last edited by MrZ; 17-09-2024 at 03:33 AM. |
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22-09-2024, 08:04 PM | #2 | ||
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Rules vary a bit between states but generally age limits are no more since Uber.
Cars would still need some form of yearly roadworthy. |
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22-09-2024, 08:42 PM | #3 | ||
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There's a BF wagon still getting around near me (not as old as that C-class but still over 15 years old)
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22-09-2024, 08:42 PM | #4 | ||
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Vic had a maximum 10 year rule and all cabs had to be yellow.. now I see Kia rio,s and even saw a beaten up Corolla with green taxi plates, vic gov has made our cabs look like a 3 rd world conutry
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22-09-2024, 09:16 PM | #5 | ||
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You are not wrong there, I have some cab owners living near me, my skin would crawl if I had to jump in one.
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23-09-2024, 07:30 AM | #6 | ||
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Technically wrong as quite a few (Falcon) country cabs were white outside Melbourne.
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23-09-2024, 03:03 PM | #7 | ||
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23-09-2024, 04:33 PM | #8 | ||
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What does that even mean.
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22-09-2024, 10:27 PM | #11 | ||
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22-09-2024, 10:40 PM | #12 | ||||
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23-09-2024, 12:08 AM | #13 | ||
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Years ago there was a story in one of the car magazines, an owner driver was running a Valiant in NSW that was about 20 years old.
The car was given a special exemption. In Victoria at one stage if you had a V8 Taxi the car was able to be registered as a Taxi for a longer time, I think it was an extra 2 years. |
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23-09-2024, 04:12 PM | #14 | ||
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In Perth, the Taxi Industry was for a long time dominated by Swan Taxis. Who insisted their Taxis be White or Black.
Then along came a competitor called Black & White Taxis, who allowed any colour. Which city was it that used to have Orange Taxis?
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23-09-2024, 06:46 PM | #15 | ||
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Brisbane. That was the colour for "Yellow Cabs". Go figure.
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23-09-2024, 07:05 PM | #16 | ||
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23-09-2024, 10:02 PM | #17 | ||
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Then there was silver top, any colour cab u liked, as long as the roof was silver
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23-09-2024, 06:01 PM | #18 | ||
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You mentioned that some country taxis in Vic weren't yellow they were white. while in Melbourne metro they are (or were) exclusively yellow.
The way I read it, it seems that the "all yellow taxi" rule might apply only to metro Melbourne & not to the country taxis. In NSW different rules apply to country vs metro taxis.That's all I meant. Dr Terry |
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23-09-2024, 06:54 PM | #20 | ||
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Usually country town taxis could be older in every state as well as they did less kms.
Large city Taxi Companies usually had their own rules of what colour the cars had to be. Brisbanes Yellow Cabs were orange, now called 13CABs, still have some orange in the decals. Also now owned by a Singapore based Uber clone who bought out Cabcharge. MOST drivers are one colour as the OTHER colour WONT WORK. Like I said NO RULES anymore thanks to Uber. |
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23-09-2024, 06:57 PM | #21 | ||
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Weren’t Ford the only manufacturer to run “Vic taxi yellow” Falcons down the assembly line?
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23-09-2024, 07:07 PM | #22 | ||
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I do chuckle now that most guys I know won’t jump in a cab cause it’s expensive but then whinge about Uber jacking up prices during peak events . At least in the past you cold see a cab coming, now…. I see a small white sign on the roof of a car that looks like it stared in gone in 60 seconds saying taxi with standard vicplates
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24-09-2024, 07:34 AM | #24 | ||
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29-09-2024, 07:36 PM | #25 | ||
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There is no enforcement of rules in Victoria. There are 3 enforcement officers for the state.
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30-09-2024, 11:21 AM | #26 | ||
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Adelaide also had orange cabs branded as yellow cabs
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