I was told a lot about how the taxi services work in the north of England by a man who owned a taxi company in the Manchester area. He was comfortably off and even had a gold coloured Rolls Royce for personal use.
Apparently many taxi companies work in syndicates. Some of the the drivers live in other areas/towns/cities, but register a false address near to, or in the town of, their base for licensing purposes. Sometimes members of the same family borrow each others ID to work different areas or use the same car. Some taxi companies (according to my source) are also allegedly fronts for illegal operations, criminal activities, money laundering, drugs and pimping.
If you use taxis on a regular basis, the company will have logged times of your call and your pick up and destination details. Even if your phone number is withheld, many taxi companies have 'number breakers' that can identify the phone number you called from.
A quick computer print out will give that taxi company lots of details about your personal life - pick up /drop off times, destination and of course, your address and any other addresses you go to. In short a taxi company can make quite an analysis about your life, especially if you use them regularly.
They will know (depending on how the service is used) what times you go out, what times you come home, where you shop, where you spend your leisure time and possibly where you work. For example, if you use taxis to visit the shops every day and put bags of shopping in the boot, it is possible the taxi driver will become disgruntled.
Many taxi drivers are heavily in debt, with debt collectors ringing them on their mobiles whilst they are ferrying passenger about, I have witnessed this on numerous occasions personally. Resentment could very easily brood against passengers who often appeared to be shopping whilst the taxi driver could not pay their numerous debt collectors. In short, a taxi driver would be able to become a perfect stalker, as would any of his colleagues who also knew of your movements.
Taxi drivers are transient, they move from company to company, taking their tittle tattle tales of passengers and pick ups with them, colouring the views of drivers from company to company about certain passengers, should that passenger ever call that particular company.
In summary, a taxi driver is easily placed to become an informant and it is far better to use a variety of taxi companies, even though there will still be drivers within these different taxi companies (as it is a circuit) that actually know each other and can still compare notes, should they wish to do so, but at least, if they have a collective, or personal, unnatural interest in yourself and your daily life, it makes them have to work harder to obtain this information.
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