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got disabled from office lastnite for picking up from street once i accepted a job from my computer reqeusted to speak to tell i had picked up and got disabled now have to wait till monday and driver cant work either, is there any legalitys for this

With respect mycab you have done nothing but slate the Dundee Taxi Association , the only advice i will give you is join either the DTA or UNITE.

and that would exacxtly get me ? out of pocket a gain by couple of bucks a week ?

ok tone dont answer cause i guess it will be like the rest of the things u answer a whole lot of nuthin ,


any other person would like to comment apart from unite or the dundee trianing assocattion

Did i hit a raw nerve , you really did have a hard neck posting your initial question made you look foolish and desperate .

well i agree it did sound a bit desparate , but i only asked for opinion if there was any legality i could do summin about it it thats all ,but i didnt want to sign up for either party.

They have their rules, it appears you breached one.

Not much you can do about it, other than leave.

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IDFIMH

If you pay a radio rent for the office to provide you with work it could be breach of contract (I presume you're still going to get charged a full weeks rent ?) and you could sue for loss of earnings for yourself and the driver. There's also the whole issue of being self-employed - you pay them to give you work, in effect you are engaging someone elses services, you're not paying them to tell YOU what to do - you're paying to tell THEM what to do ie provide you with work.

Sadly its become accepted that you do as the office says and if you don't like it leave. Until someone has the bottle and cash to challenge it in court, hopefully win and set a precedent, the situation will never change. I can't think of any other industry where you pay fees upfront for a service only to be told you can't have the service or part of it at the whim of the person you're paying, and still pay the full price.

Are you hackney or private hire? What exactly do you mean by "disabled"?

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Grandad,

hackney , i reqeusted to speak and told controller i picked up can u take the job back and they replied no way and ivalidaeted my car till monday

An experienced driver would have called the office and said that the customer now requires a second cab.

Strangely enough under the same name going to the same destination.

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IDFIMH

Considering the office will probably have GPS in the car, they would know the car was no where near the address they gave him, And for that reason i don't think the experienced drivers plan would have worked.

What do you mean by "invalidated"? I don't understand this.

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Grandad,

Took his vehicle off the despatch system, presumably.

Unless 'disabled' means that they broke his legs for doing a flyer

Can't see it's such a big deal if he's a hackney, since he'll still be able to work the streets, and it's only until tomorrow

That is the way I saw it. Strange system.

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Grandad,

Sin binned grandad. We get it all the time with the asian drivers, all day you hear the operators shouting their numbers asking them where they are and why haven't they picked up yet.

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