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could someone tell me who normally pays for rank marshalls

am led to believe from drivers in York that they have been asked to donate £3 to pay for a rank marshall at this weekends race meeting, surely the race course committe should cough up or even the council

its to keep order and inform the driver if the punter is going out of town, want this job or not driver

Sometimes the police, sometimes a gov grant, sometimes the council, sometimes the local pub groups, and sometimes the trade.

If I had my way they would always be funded by the pub groups who cause the problems in the first place.

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IDFIMH

the rank marshalls at the racecourse was the idea of York Taxi Association,who had agreed to pay for this weekends meeting, the £3 which drivers were asked to donate would have paid for a marshall to be there for the July, and the August Ebor meeting, and while some agreed and said it was a good idea, quite a few did not want to part with a whole 3 quid, once again displaying the negative atitude that York is famous for.

I heard that this weeks race meeting was cancelled !!!!

How observant of you, they were called off at 8am on the Friday however the Rank Marshall had been ordered some three weeks previous, and very kindly offered not to attend.

Is this a case of a Taxi association putting the cart before the horse? Perhaps York taxi association should have consulted York taxi drivers before they agreed to pay for marshals. What made York Taxi association think they had the right to commit drivers to pay three pounds for something they may not use or don't think is needed?

When you go down the slippery slope of paying for Marshals the next thing you know is that you are being asked to contribute to the local authority Marshaling scheme.

It is unwise for any taxi association with a minority membership to take taxi drivers for granted.

As a matter of interest how many members does York Taxi association have?

Regards

JD

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We have Marshalls at Romford and I don't see any benifit to the drivers, all they do is slow the queue down, still have to turn punters away eating kebabs and too drunk to walk unaided, even had the marshalls trying to open my door for them.

As far as I can tell all they stop is queue jumping and frankly I don't care who was first in the queue as long as they pay.

I wouldn't be happy having to pay £3 for them either.

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There's no excuse for animal abuse. If you ain't vegan you are an animal abuser.

But don't forget the marshalls, if they are drivers, are earning loads more than you.

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IDFIMH

The guys marshalling our ranks down here are apparently on £14 an hour.

Don't serve much perpose tbh and they're not something I'd be happy contributing to.

Our marshal's do a great job, there again we're PH but we do far more from walk in's at the office's than the Hac's do on the rank's (hac's dont have marshalled rank's, they tried it but wont pay towards it so it stopped).
99% of the punters are ok and wait in turn, wrap up food/dispose of drink when the marshal ask's them to etc. The remaining 1% comply eventually simply because the rest of the punters support the Marshal and "suggest" to the few who try it on that they'd be better to do as they ask.
Warrington Town center can be a bit hairy at 2,3,4am on a weekend, but it's quite a compact area and well Policed to.
We use a ticket system and the punters are used to it, the driver blows in on approach so he know's the ticket number as well as the marshal.
Wrong number, no ride. It works.
Theyre Paid for by the company.