Count Basie

Should all couriers be licensed
smardy41, you were not in the taxi industry. You were a minicab driver. Licensing - provided it keeps numbers of licensed drivers at less than half the level the market requires - does Schmutzige Yiddisher Schwarzers plenty of favours.

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Should all couriers be licensed
There are places where couriers are licensed. It doesn't do them much good. There was a link on here a couple of years back to a tale of woe from Chicago. (Licensing there gives you the choice of wearing the ball and chain inside your lycra l…

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
video diary from my epic adventure
Very nice. I once cycled from Torquay to Cricklewood in one day. With a rucksack on. (A small one.) Left at 5:30am and got back home at 9pm. Almost killed me. Certainly no inclination to film it!

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
I shall be doing a blog this year!
http://basieblog.blogspot.com/

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Happy New Year! I've seen the future (and you're not included)
And none of you lot are old enough to be more punk than me! Cheeky whippersnappers!

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Happy New Year! I've seen the future (and you're not included)
You ignorant Philistines! Those are the lyrics to "The Future", the title track of the Leonard Cohen album called... err... umm... oh, yeah, "The Future". What do you mean, "Who's Leonard Cohen?" ???!!!??? It …

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Mass courier genocide??!!
Is that guy's name Henry? I've not spoken to him in years, but Henry doesn't ring a bell. He has been working for Rico for ages. At least 10 years surely. I've never been quite sure how bad Rico are. I've always assumed t…

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Happy New Year! I've seen the future (and you're not included)
Gimme back my broken night, My mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, There's no one left to torture. Gimme absolute control Over every living soul And lie beside me, baby, That's an order. Gimme crack an…

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
The Circuits Slowest Riders of 2010
I'm slowing down. Twice early last month, I waited for the lights to change at Holborn Viaduct going west, just turned the pedals at the speed necessary to get through the lights at Gray's Inn Road before they go red and thought, "Fu…

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
I've just been given a 2011 50p piece.
You could sell ideas like that to Danish or Dutch producers, pornomike. Why go to all the trouble Arnie's cyborg went to in The Terminator? "OLE EGE PRODUCTIONS proudly present: POPE JOHN XXIII MARIE STOPES and PORNOMIKE in …

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Rates of pay.
It'll mean invoices from agencies to clients go up. A City Sprint £3.94 minimum (Introduced as a response to certain other agencies offering City to EC/WC/W1 for £3.95 - how pathetic can this industry be?) rises from £4.63 on the invoice to £4.…

Comment by Count Basie January 2011 permalink
Sent to SE22 to pick up an empty box
Paddies get everywhere! I'm sitting here in an Internet joint in Bayswater. Full of Arabs. Arab bloke sitting opposite me has just made a phone call and has an accent from somewhere in east Cork!

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Sent to SE22 to pick up an empty box
Maurycy, you're right about the spelling. Some of us ignera.... er ignoray.... er.... idiots left skool at 25 with no qualifications and, as a result, can't spell.

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Sent to SE22 to pick up an empty box
Mildura isn't getting Premier mixed up with Express. Premier were run by Kevin "Charlie Boy" Jenkins, who is quite middle class but who likes to pretend to be a bit of a gangster and surrounds himself with cartoon caricatures... and…

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Metro open account with City Sprint shocker!
The fella I heard definitely came from within two miles of Drumcondra, OD. Thought it might be Bertie Ahern having a bit of a dig out when I heard the accent. Speaking of the Irish... you went flying past me this morning. Get your hair cut! You lo…

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Metro open account with City Sprint shocker!
Looks like Marc Patten's been out in his suit again. Every time I see a City Sprint rider picking up, I think that there's a account they nicked from a firm that either currently pays, or used to pay, reasonable rates. And where were you…

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Sent to SE22 to pick up an empty box
Certain branches of the police force would say it does, Pornomike. I remember once working for a firm run by a member of a very well known criminal family. A motorbike was given a cash job, picking up a package from a black BMW in the car park at S…

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
i don't feel very well
Good day to schedule a party. I was going to turn up. However, my wonderful agency was stuck on a Bermondsey Street to the arse end of Bolingbroke Grove in SW18 at 6:30. As SW18's really close to Acton, they thought they'd ask me to help …

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Hi Guys
Hmmm! A few things to say. Firstly, you spend w-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too much time on the inside. How the hell was there so little traffic out there for this? I sincerely hope this wasn't an actual job. We could tighten the line up quite a b…

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
LCEF xmas party
Can I come? To the russell... it isn't a medical question.

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
LCEF xmas party
Charlie Magri. There was a man with a chin of pure glass. I can still hear Harry Carpenter when Juan Diaz caught him: "Oh, these Mexicans! What do they do?!" Still went on to win the title though.

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
I've found a good new pub.
Don't remember them at the same time. I did work with Jules before his SD stint though.

Comment by Count Basie December 2010 permalink
Fungal skin infections
Gotta say I've never had a fungal infection. Got chillblains for several winters running a few years back, which was annoying. Had a boil between my scrote and ringpiece a couple of months ago. Didn't notice it until I was getting read…

Comment by Count Basie November 2010 permalink
Possibly great news... but probably not.
Dazzler. The archetype brainwashed Blairite. Just look at the label and make the call on that. Appearance is everything; substance is nothing. Wearing a £3 T-shirt made by slave labour in an Asian factory? You cheapo wanker! Wearing a £50 T-shir…

Comment by Count Basie October 2010 permalink
looking for cycle courier, 1-2 hours early morning or late evening £10-£15ph, west london
Strewth, Bill! Still a bit uppity, aren't we? The General Election was ages ago! So, you no longer run the country. Big deal! Get over it, man! Life goes on. Just think what a nice young chap you'll be able to vote for next time.

Comment by Count Basie October 2010 permalink
Benjys
As I've said on here several times before, at least three reasonably regular posters on here definitely know who I am. It's not a big secret. There are a few others who ought to know, but they're probably too spaced to work it out.

Comment by Count Basie February 2010 permalink
Another cyclist dies under the wheels of a lorry :(
Give generously to Haiti now! It'll salve your conscience almost as thoroughly as grieving for dead cyclists.

Comment by Count Basie February 2010 permalink
Benjys
A-Z were bought out by Mach One. I used to work for GLH (still going but seriously exploitative, Stuart Selley's still the C1 bike controller as far as I know) .... and London Link (bought out by Courier Systems, who are even more exploitative…

Comment by Count Basie February 2010 permalink
need room
I'm looking for a room as well! Could any of you whose rough whereabouts I'm unaware of give me an idea as to your location? I wouldn't want to turn-up on the same manor as any of you lot!

Comment by Count Basie February 2010 permalink
CITY SPRINT!
I noticed in this month's "Private Hire & Courier" that McDonald's have taken over Post Haste (a.k.a. Arrow) - you'll have noted that the word "Post" has been removed from the Post Haste vans. They can't a…

Comment by Count Basie February 2010 permalink

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