Nelson Petition Again

[Sniper]

Easy to say mate. Not easy to do. Most customers are shitty if you tend to argue with them over anything. Besides, most "have been driving for years!" and tend to know it all. I have even had one guy who "builts these cars" but didnt know how to use the wipers or indicators.

Hiring rental cars is a delicant balance becuase you can identify which ethnicticities are problems. Sounds racist I know, but when you are trying to tell an asian, german, israelie or any other country that we need a credit card or that we wont accept a drivers license we can read you get the idea quite quickly on how unsafe our roads can be

[sunhuntin]

sniper....i wouldnt do you job for all the money in the world! bugger that!
i work at a gas station, and theyre scary enough there!

im glad when i went to canada i couldnt ride, cos the habits over there would have been hard to shake here [turn right on a red if it is safe to do so [left for us]]

[sAsLEX]

The 'boy-racer' sent to jail in Auckland for being part of a fatal race was a good start. (he was driving one of the cars but it was not directly involved in the fatal crash).

hmm thats setting a dangerous precident, should all the bystanding watchers be jailed as well as they were "egging" him on, even though they had no direct involvement in the crash?

[Lou Girardin]

Strange that it was careless causing injury, not death. Perhaps the death was from other causes?
I also think the cops are drawing a long bow on some of these charges against people not directly involved in accidents.
I'm just waiting for the day when an overtaken driver gets accused of racing the overtaker.

[scumdog]

The difference is that this guy admitted racing "but only on the straight bits" - whatever that was meant to mean.

[Lou Girardin]

The difference is that this guy admitted racing "but only on the straight bits" - whatever that was meant to mean.

They always talk themselves into the shit, don't they.
How difficult would your job be if they had some clues?

[Sniper]

sniper....i wouldnt do you job for all the money in the world! bugger that!
i work at a gas station, and theyre scary enough there!

im glad when i went to canada i couldnt ride, cos the habits over there would have been hard to shake here [turn right on a red if it is safe to do so [left for us]]

Cheers mate. The job can get hard which is why I prefer to stay behind my computer, but once in a while I do need to deal with the difficult customers. Every once in a while you get a really good customer who compliments you are thanks you in some way. They are only 1 in 10 but those are the ones I tend to remember and next time go out of my way to help them. The others are branded as GOLDCARD CUSTOMERS

[Skyryder]

Better if more time was spent dealing with home-grown road-idiots first.

The 'boy-racer' sent to jail in Auckland for being part of a fatal race was a good start. (he was driving one of the cars but it was not directly involved in the fatal crash).

Can't disagee with that SD but I think the Davies petition has more to do with a lack of sufficient 'penalty' than being anti tourist drivers. I'm going to try and get in touch with the woman and find out a bit more on this. This is not the first time when some one has been killed and all that has happened is a 'stiff' fine. $10,000 is serious money to most of us here but a fine is a fine and carries less of a stigma than jail time.

Skyryder