Great Western Coffee Shop

Don't know if this has been mentioned before but...
Apparently there is a notorious gang (working the Reading area at the moment),- the ^Derby Drivers^. They drive around in white transit vans, generally making a thorough nuisance of themselves - driving very slowly, pulling out with out indicating, cutting people up on roundabouts etc.

On the back of each van is a ^how^s my driving sign?^ with a telephone number - be warned, the phone number given is premium rate one and even the shortest call to it will set you back at least ^25.

A colleague has also seen these jokers in the Westbury area, so watch out.

ive always disagreeded with those hows your driving things on vans if your driving behind how do you note down the number in a safe and legal way? also delivery drivers often drive slowly to find a property

OMG - what lengths will people go to??  I'm a bit of a scam-buster, so thanks for alerting me to this, will have to keep an eye out for it.

Exactly. As well as distracting my eyes from the road!

if your that bothered bout your fleet then livery and a fleet index should be enough... its easy to find the offending drivers employer in yellow pages and remember a fleet number off the van eg '1625'

btw you get a point if you can tell me what that code refers to :-)

Hmmmm... that smacks of an urban legend to me. If I remember correctly, the highest rate "premium rate" phone line in the UK is ^1.50 a minute, so you'd have to be serious peed off at someone's driving to rack up a bill of ^25.00

edit: Actually Snopes doesn't have this particular one, but a related legend does confirm the ^1.50 figure:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/mobile.asp

You beat me to it Phil, there is a similar one on Snopes about being left a postcard regarding a missed parcel delivery - just by dialling the number you ran up a bill of up to ^300 - depending on where you heard the story !!!
There was some truth in it originally: you were subjected to a 6 minute recorded message at ^1.50 a minute. But of course a ^9 scam doesn't sound as good as a ^300 one.

Not meaning to be funny... But G.Uard posted this thread on October 4th 2008... :o

Alistair Campbell was caught out by that one! ;D

trout i noticed that last night however the vodka couldnt say no  ;D