LaRue Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Does anyone have any advice/experience of how to become a taxi driver, been doing this for 10 yrs. in uk but certainly seems more difficult here. Local company has vacancies but needs drivers with diplome conducteur ambulancier. Checking on net this looks like a paramedic qualification! All advice welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I guess thats because most rural taxi businesses make their money from operating private ambulance services or driving people to and from hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val_2 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 To become a self employed taxi driver here you must sign on at the Chambre de Metiers along with all the manual services and do the five day business course in French before getting your SIRET and being put into the cotisations system. When we did ours some 11 years back there were three taxi drivers there doing this and we still see them about today. Have a word with the local company and see just what they require but I think you will have to do a course especially for ambulance car driver and it would all be in french to communicate with your patients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Our local pompes funebres proprietaire has just passed his l'examen de chauffeur de taxi "ce que lui permet d'ajouter ce créneau a ses nombreuses activities" therefore I would guess that the taxi driving permit is quite seperate from the ambulance driving permit as he's been doing that for a number of years already. He now has a shiny new car with a taxi light on it in addition to his ambulance fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val_2 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Hope he dosn't mix his "clients" up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Trollope Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 [quote user="Val_2"]Hope he dosn't mix his "clients" up[/quote]Shouldn't be a problem. After all as this is France, all he needs is permission from the various bodies involved.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaRue Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 Useful replies, thank you all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Trollope Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 [quote user="LaRue"]Useful replies, thank you all[/quote]Useful? I was trying to be funny.... Funeral car driver... bodies involved.... Geddit? Oh never mind, I'll get me coat.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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