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we dont pay minumum wage but it seems we have to now beat it just to find the staff.

i cant fathom a taxi company providing a job as soon as another finishes because on that rate you are looking to making 200 a day and then that equals to about 1400 a week which is laughable even on christmas.

The biggest problem you'll have is getting enough drivers out in the quiet periods to cover the work (assuming they'll all be self employed owner drivers).

I work strictly 5 days. I see taxi driving as a profession and I expect to make the money i require to live on in 5 days. Which is perfectly reasonable.

Author:	PhD [ Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:13 pm ]
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How hard is it to find staff these days??? nobody wants to work in a taxi office because of the image assosicated with it. I can only hope i find the staff in time for our call center. we dont pay minumum wage but it seems we have to now beat it just to find the staff, on top of this headache you get arrognat drivers who think they are earning you a living and not the other way round....sometimes it makes me wish that Automatic cars that drive themselves cant come sooner.

Author:	Sussex [ Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:30 pm ]
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PhD wrote: we dont pay minumum wage but it seems we have to now beat it just to find the staff. I'm assuming that was a typo error, cos I didn't think paying the min wage was an option. As for the staffing issue, I can imagine it's a night-mare. But surely the flexibility of the job must have it's plus points. Most drivers have families, most firm owners have families, so if they don't want to work there, then maybe it might be worth asking them why not. But maybe it's just down to money.

Author:	PhD [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:08 am ]
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i cant fathom a taxi company providing a job as soon as another finishes because on that rate you are looking to making 200 a day and then that equals to about 1400 a week which is laughable even on christmas. drivers always complain when they see another driver arrive at base and that just curtails any chance of growth. That disappoints me, as im as loyal as you can get so i believe in the thick and thin thinking. do you know why taxi drivers move around so much? cuz i dont! as for staff yes its a type-o.

Author:	herfordian [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:40 am ]
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PhD wrote: i cant fathom a taxi company providing a job as soon as another finishes because on that rate you are looking to making 200 a day and then that equals to about 1400 a week which is laughable even on christmas. errrr? 200 a day = 1400 a week? So you expect your drivers to work 7 days a week? No wonder you have problems. I work strictly 5 days. I see taxi driving as a profession and I expect to make the money i require to live on in 5 days. Which is perfectly reasonable. Working Tuesday -Sat night and having sunday and monday off. I'm not yet on the national average salary of £24,000 but that's because I'm a driver and not an owner driver. Although that will be changing in the next couple of months and then I would expect to see my earnings increase accordingly. Kevin

Author:	smiffyz (geoff) [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:03 am ]
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The biggest problem you'll have is getting enough drivers out in the quiet periods to cover the work (assuming they'll all be self employed owner drivers). As we said earlier, they're out to make money and if they're not making it you wont get them out on the road. I dont know how big an area you cover but when it's quiet and not many are out, you'll struggle to get them to drag miles for work. Here where i am, unless you've got about 25 cars (and 40 would be better) you wont get the good drivers because of the unpaid milage they're going to do between jobs. It's getting better, but we get drivers refusing work if it's more than 1 1/2 miles away because it's considered to far to drag.

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Author:	Sussex [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:22 am ]
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smiffyz (geoff) wrote: The biggest problem you'll have is getting enough drivers out in the quiet periods to cover the work (assuming they'll all be self employed owner drivers). Now I would have said the complete opposite. We have problems getting drivers out when it's mobbed. When it's quite we have more than enough book readers.

Author:	Onzon [ Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:24 pm ]
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herfordian wrote: I work strictly 5 days. I see taxi driving as a profession and I expect to make the money i require to live on in 5 days. Which is perfectly reasonable. Spot on.

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