Skull wrote:
Doom wrote:
This is how it works
You can own your own cab, but only in a dereg area if you are prepared to stump up a lot of money in start up costs.
In other area's nobody stops anyone getting a PH plate, so this hard done by thing doesn't really wash, if you want to be an OD you can in one shape or form anyway.
An owner is subject to the costs, typical saloon ones are
£70 pw car loan
£30 pw Insurance
£20 pw repairs
£130 pw radio charges
A grand total before tax of £250pw, these are conservative figures btw, other fomula's would see this increase to £350 pw for a WAV owner who doesn't have a lot of NCB
So, how much is a fair amount for a driver to pay to be able to have the right to walk off at any time uncommitted ?
How much would you want to let someone who might wreck your car and insurance policy ?
This whole issue to me is like the pub smoking ban, beforehand there were loads of folk who were now going to go to the pub now it's smoke free, well! where are you, pubs are shutting by the minute, you said you'd replace the smoker and you've lied, you had no desire to go to the pub because pub ppl go to the pub and others simply don't, so the meddlers have now cost jobs,taxation,society and a way of life, nice work eh.
As an older man I've watched the changes, I watch new rules being brought in and most of the time they ruin things, who really wants or needs to be interrogated so they can buy a drink in a bar when the steward can see they are over 18, playing around with things that just worked anyway to justify a job title, my city has been ruined by one police officer, he knew that making everyone drink in the same place week in week out was a good idea and he pushed it through, what has no happened is there is no escape from trouble and lots more of it, the feral have taken over and nice folk don't bother anymore, where is he now, keeping quiet in a corner out of the way, and his real motive was because he didn't fancy doing what police officers are employed to do, wanted it nice and easy and thought it would be nice to stroll round the corner and arrest whoever the doormen had already restrained for him, then go back to stuffing a kebab down his throat in peace and quiet, he was told by taxi driver,traders and licensees that it was flawed and had failed elsewhere it had been deployed, but oh no he knew best, after all he was the law.
Bottom line is, quality should always come before quantity, quantity always means surplus and surplus means lack of quality, quite a simple equation really, but still even in the deepest of deep recessions some are still playing the human rights bill to try and get in on the cheap, I want to exit the cab game myself, it's ruined, I fancy some HGV 1 but it's going to cost me £2500 to get the licenses, is anyone going to listen to me when I bang the door and say hey gimme training and a license for free, no they aren't, I'm going to have to stump up and gamble I can pass the test and then I will have to go drive for someone that doesn't pay that well to get experience, there's no brand new Volvo tractor waiting for me, no employer saying to me here have this one because it's not right you have to start at the bottom and work your way up, and right now anyone who wants a HC plate even for free is some sort of mug, to have to invest in a car and all the other stuff that goes with it to see one £4 job per hour, you gotta be mad, I know the best days are behind me now, the face of taxing has been beaten to a pulp by bad management, unsuitable entry and general lack of care for anything other than themselves, the first step on the road to recovery is one man one plate, that is one issue I will agree with with Skull, this owning more licenses than you can physically drive yourself has to stop, and here that problem is a PH problem with 600 cars owned by 7 people.
What a complete load of [edited by admin]*
You know. It's actually hard to believe that you believe, what you have written. How did you come up with the above? It's absolute nonsense but it does show the intellectual level of your average cabby.
Let me show you how smart I really am James, if I switch into Skull mode my retort would be something like........ and there was I thinking that crack was only available in Glasgow.
But as it's me mode and not you, I will retort with if that if my reply was too hard to digest for you you shouldn't hold a fishing license let alone a hackney carriage one because a road sign is going to totally confuse you, get real man my reply was spot on, you don't want any justice or equality for all, your crusade is motivated purely on either ruining something for those that have bought in, or if you are as stupid as I think you are right now you think if you can get the door open it's going to crank up your own cash cow, well! look at it this way, if you can get one, I can get ten, how long before I shut you out in the cold and watch you starve and you then go the way of the corner shop all the while assuming my rightful mantle as the master of the road, the baron of the bitumen etc.
Take a tip, put the tinny down and read slowly, that way you might understand that all this time smashing the councils ear in has been wasted, it shows who you are by the way you've picked your ball up and left the trade, oh how they must be rejoicing up there now eh
@ Ali, you might be able to, but your cab would've been unlicensable here now, and there is one whose just had to...not wanted to...had to get rid of a TX that had more filler than metal in it, my figures are a realistic look at what an owner on a radio circuit has to pay out each week, if anyone think he can then afford to let a driver use it for say £100 pw then they need to get to the economics school and also the risk vs reward one, and also Ali, once you've managed to flood the city with hacks, you are going to need a radio yourself, but I know, you'll move on and do something else when that time comes won't you, and without revisiting old wounds if I was in your city and I saw you sat there in front of a 2008 WAV I'm afraid I would walk past you and get in the one behind, a cab isn't cheap and nor is my life, so there is no way I would ride in a 12 year old bucket that was made by the same company that made the Trottermobile
It perhaps should be considered that part of the inspection process is to have a customer satisfaction test, this would entail the car being sat in and driven over normal streets with a decibel reader, so anything that shakes people up harshly or rattles like a set of cymbals fails, and rips in the seats and trims gets considered also, there should also be a driver satisfaction test where a customer is held upside down and shaken, if no or very little money falls from their pockets, you don't have to take them
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