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Speaker 1: So an undercover blitz some Perth taxi drivers as planned

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Speaker 1: after complaints a growing number of drivers are not properly

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Speaker 1: using their meters. This has not happened to me, as.

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Speaker 2: It happened to you, hasn't happened to well normally in

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Speaker 2: an uber.

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Speaker 1: Transport Minister Rita Safiotti has revealed that even she has

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Speaker 1: been stung and warned drivers that you can't set your

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Speaker 1: own fares. That's not the way it works. It hasn't

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Speaker 1: happened to you or eye, but it's happened to Suzie

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Speaker 1: sushi producer.

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Speaker 3: You.

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Speaker 1: When did this happen to you? Tell us what happened.

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Speaker 4: This actually happened after our Christmas party in December. I

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Speaker 4: had a broken foot at the time, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: I need to go home. And we were in Mount

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Speaker 4: Lawley for our party and everyone has their Christmas parties

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Speaker 4: around the same time, so it was super busy and

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Speaker 4: usually I'd get an uber, but they were fully booked,

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Speaker 4: so there was a taxi right there and I was like,

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Speaker 4: you know what, I'm just going to get in. I

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Speaker 4: live in yo kind Mount Lawali, Yo Kind. I was like, no,

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Speaker 4: no problems could surely happen halfway down Walcott Street, I

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Speaker 4: realize the meter's not on oh, and I pointed it

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Speaker 4: out and he got very aggressive with me and made

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Speaker 4: up all these excuses that he was off the clock

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Speaker 4: and trying to do some extra money and stuff that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and he told me I know what the price is,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, well, no, you sho. So I argued

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Speaker 4: with him. We got the meter running, and then he

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Speaker 4: stopped me on my street and tried to charge me

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Speaker 4: more than what was on the meter, so what he

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Speaker 4: had originally quoted, which was more, and we had an

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Speaker 4: argument about that with the moon boot almost and then

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Speaker 4: in the end he refunded me some money because he

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Speaker 4: had at first charged me more. And then I took

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Speaker 4: a photo of his license and the what was on

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Speaker 4: the meet, so I had a comparison to what I

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Speaker 4: was charged. And then I got out and he was

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Speaker 4: abusing me and drove off, and I took a photo

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Speaker 4: of the license plate number he stopped, got out of

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Speaker 4: the car and came towards me, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to be able to run away very

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Speaker 4: fast from this guy because I have a broken foot.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, We've got into a heated argument on the street,

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Speaker 4: and he was very worried about me reporting him, and

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Speaker 4: I was like, well, don't do dodgy. Yeah, and you

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Speaker 4: don't have to be reported.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, But that vulnerability of not just being a woman

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Speaker 5: in the car with a busted foot, but the fact

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Speaker 5: that you can't see what the meter is doing can

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Speaker 5: make up any number.

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Speaker 4: And if it happens, he knows what it costs.

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Speaker 1: But that's not who I don't think, that's not the

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Speaker 1: met I think the meter is for us to know

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Rita Sofioti says, a taxi driver must

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Speaker 1: set the met in operation at the start of the

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Speaker 1: journey and stop it at the end of the journey. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's how a taxi works. And she's asked her people

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Speaker 1: to undertake a compliance blitz. They're doing a mystery shopper stuff.

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Speaker 2: Can I do that, mystery passenger? No, I reckon, I'd

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Speaker 2: be a good mystery I'm that with some dark sonny.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it's a little to come work.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, undercover transport officials will use taxis to make

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Speaker 1: sure that everything's being done right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and you survived. He did, and it has

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Speaker 2: happened to read her as well.

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Speaker 1: But Johnny Como is called Hello John.

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Speaker 5: John, Welcome guys.

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Speaker 4: How you go on?

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Speaker 2: You're a driver, aren't you?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 6: But my thoughts on this fly, uh, the take a

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Speaker 6: politicidn't get busted for them to do something because this

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Speaker 6: privilege has been going on for decades before I even

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Speaker 6: Urgle was here. The drivers have been uh, manipulating fairs

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Speaker 6: and all sorts of stuff. And I had an issue

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Speaker 6: of that long ago where I needed to catch a

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Speaker 6: camp because it was more convenient to go from the

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Speaker 6: city to come mate. So this guy decides we're on

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Speaker 6: the set on the freeway, and then he decides he's

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Speaker 6: going to go down Riverside Drive and go through the

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Speaker 6: city to go out to Coma. And I'm thinking, what, No,

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Speaker 6: that's not yeah, And when I told him, no, you're

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Speaker 6: going the wrong way, he got really stoppy, wow, really

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Speaker 6: really stroppy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And in the end he did go up the freeway

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Speaker 6: because I insisted, but he was he told me, actually

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Speaker 6: told me I'm the driver, don't tell me how to drive.

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Speaker 2: He was trying to fudge another ten bucks.

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Speaker 1: I've had very good, lucky drivers. They usually asked me

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Speaker 1: which way I want to go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which way? About with you, Roger, Well, I do that.

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Speaker 6: I mean people tell me sometimes I don't go the

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Speaker 6: way Google Maps saying going this way yea, And I was, okay,

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Speaker 6: you're fine.

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Speaker 3: You know, I might think it's longer.

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Speaker 6: But you know you're paying for the right. If you

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Speaker 6: want to go that way, you go that way.

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Speaker 2: And John the lassie you wanted a stroppy driver when

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Speaker 2: they're taking you home.

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Speaker 1: That's very uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: Not good. Thanks John, Thanks for you.

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Speaker 1: It's a wisdom Paul, and jup has called Paul, what's

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Speaker 1: your experience with this situation that morning?

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Speaker 3: You know, when you go a single like you don't

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Speaker 3: have someone there can run you for a wheel alignment

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Speaker 3: or something you can't do yourself. Like highers that I've

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Speaker 3: got a taxi to where I go and then I said, well,

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Speaker 3: I've got to go back and kick it up, and

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Speaker 3: I don't know what time, and he goes. He gave

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Speaker 3: me his card, he actually had like a taxi business card,

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Speaker 3: and he says, I'll just ring us up and I'll

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Speaker 3: come and get you. And he says, as long as

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Speaker 3: it's not like you've got to be there that second,

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Speaker 3: and anyway, he's left the meter off, like Susie said,

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Speaker 3: but he's nothing like him, and he's done a cheaper

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Speaker 3: because I know it's thirty bucks to get there, and

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Speaker 3: he did it for twenty that's all right, A good experience. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and more than once. I said to him, well I

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Speaker 3: sort of need someone now, and he goes, as long

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Speaker 3: as you don't need me there in ten fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 3: now I can fit you in. And so I've kept

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Speaker 3: the card and I get lifts everywhere. And I remember

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Speaker 3: ringing in one Saturday I had because they'll do a

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Speaker 3: wheel alignment on Saturday where I go and he says, well,

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Speaker 3: I'm not in the taxi, but I can still do it,

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Speaker 3: so yeah, no worries. Then he actually had his mum

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Speaker 3: and he was taking his mum shopping, so I met

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Speaker 3: her as well. Pretty cool people.

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Speaker 1: Yeahs like you're a very own Parker in Thunderbird, like

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Speaker 1: a mate.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeahm off on the way and he dropped

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Speaker 5: the price down.

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Speaker 2: He's getting guaranteed regular work.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well just when whenever you need it. It's

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Speaker 3: not that regular that you get car stuff done. But

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Speaker 3: I thought it was awesome, and then I heard Susie's story.

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Speaker 3: It's completely different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't good. It's good.

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Speaker 3: There are actually.

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Speaker 2: At least it was a bit of light with a

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Speaker 2: shade like that. Mum was in the car to meet her.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I have a chat with your cab driver.

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Speaker 1: There was to be his best mate and they've got

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Speaker 1: to drop mom off on the way.

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Speaker 2: Mom's in the car for a chat. I wonder if

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Speaker 2: she biked.

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Speaker 6: I