Coffs WATS Cabbie

16/09/2026

Yes, I also do tip runs as well. Passenger had to dispose of an old mobility scooter and didn’t have any other way to do it.

16/09/2026

Road safety PSA

15/09/2026

Road crossing phone zombies. The new danger on our roads. I spotted at least three people head down in their phones this morning whilst they were crossing the road and they were all young people or teenagers. Yes, they were using designated crossings but that’s not the point. You may have the right of way at the crossing or the green light to cross but you need to be aware of your surrounds all of the time. Please, put the phone away while you’re crossing the road!

11/09/2026

From Isles Drive southwards, no more traffic lights until Victoria as of today. Assuming you use the Pacific Motorway, Northconnex, M2, M7 and Hume Motorway.

03/09/2026

If you use taxis, please take note of this.

30/08/2026

Need to lose the dad bod, lol. So off for a walk I go.

27/08/2026

Grafton last week. Kempsey today.

23/08/2026

This is from a Tasmanian news site, but this same thing happened to me last year.

I used to use the Ampol app to pay for fuel. That all changed when I was accused by the console operator at Ampol Toormina of stealing petrol. Even so much as exiting the store by saying “Once you’ve finished filling up, you can pay for the petrol that you didn’t pay for yesterday”

I immediately took offence at that suggestion and I told her I would prove her wrong. Even after showing her evidence that I had indeed paid for the fuel by way of a tax invoice I received by email, she refused to apologise and continued with the line “well, you drove off.”

I get that stealing fuel is a major problem, but let’s get a few facts straight.

* Being a local business operator and someone who WAS a regular customer, I am the very last person to do the wrong thing by a business. In particular that business.

* I have never stolen anything from a business, big or small.

* If I was to steal petrol, I wouldn’t do it in a vehicle emblazoned with a company logo. I would do it in my own private vehicle in a far-flung town that I am never likely to visit again.

The fact that neither Ampol Toormina, the console operator at that outlet have not ever apologised, and the usual automatically generated corporate BS from Ampol corporate of “we apologise for your experience and this has been handled internally”, which means zero has been done, is extremely disappointing.

I haven’t been back to Ampol Toormina ever since. If anyone else has been falsely accused of stealing petrol from either Ampol or any fuel retailer that uses an app, I’d like to hear from you.

Ampol’s app allows customers to pay for fuel without entering the store…

20/08/2026

Haven’t been to Grafton in the taxi for a while.

17/08/2026

Back when Coffs Harbour had locally made television.