Taxi Driver Online

Going back a few years the price of an private hire office used be the number of drivers paying rents & then it used to be 2k for a driver so if you had 50 drivers you wud pay 100k lately the price has gone up to 5k a driver so now if uve got 50 drivers the office is worth 250k considering that wud any person buy a base of 20 drivers for 100k when 20 drivers paying £80 a week wud just about cover your expenditure in the office also is the price of offices across the country on a par wid here or has it gone stupid in the midlands????????

I suspect those selling think things haven't gone mad.

Supply and demand.

Not too sure I like the idea of buying and selling drivers though.

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IDFIMH

It is not realy buying and selling drivers though is it? If I were to buy Marks and Spencer, would I be buying the staff?

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Grandad,

I know tell of a base owner looking to sell a circuit of 140 cars (£85/wk base rents), the problem is hes planning to start a new base only 5 miles down the road in the same LA using a front man....

so he sells business to joe bloggs, with 140 drivers, who may then choose to join him at his new office, leaving joe with potentially an office and no staff/drivers. Nice earner for him, hope joe has deep pockets.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

Ive warned the "front man" that selling a business will include a "will not strt/trade same business/20mile radius" clause, plus anyone with £200K to buy the firm could just turn nasty when the cack hits the fan, and kneecaps+shotguns dont mix....

No, but in your scenario it would equate to buying punters, which is what drivers are to firms.

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IDFIMH

A warehousing/distribution firm i did work for won a contract for an office supplies distributor but had to offer the outgoing contractors staff the positions even though it was different site 15 miles away so i ended up ferrying the poles/rumanians over to have a look while they decided if they wanted the jobs, so yes, you could possibly be buying the staff under EU employment laws