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I would just like to give out a big thank you to all the sh!thouses that flimped the ar$e off World Headquarters on Friday and Saturday night (Newcastle). Well done.
Top of the list is Ace with flag down after flag down taken directly outside the entrance. It was a very close call for second place, but my hat goes off to.....Lansdowne (Berwick plated vehicles of course) with numerous "pick ups" from the same drivers (very strange eh), and by no means last, but always there is.......(no prizes for guessing), yes your right.....it's Blue Line (yes, same drivers again & again)..... A huge thank you for taking plently of legal work direct from our noses and I hope you didn't get any trouble or runners.
Also noticed were the same (let me say....none English drivers) working outside the Fire Station and also the numerous Berwick lads still working on Grainger Street - Cheers again for making our weekend a total waste of time and I hope you all have a great Christmas. I'm sure my kids will certainly enjoy getting less this year.
.......keep to your legal jobs lads and stop taking the F'in P!ss out of us please....

(Finally, If anyone from Newcastle Council reads this - take your ar$e off your nice warm office chair and do your job - catch these thiefing barstewards.)

....glad thats off my chest.

Chris

Are you suggesting nothing has changed in Newcastle since the big meeting with the council and police in respect of improved enforcement and of course not forgetting the recent Berwick judgment?

Regards

JD

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I wonder how many customers looked across at you and thought, I am not getting in there with that moody B******, last time I did he just moaned all the time and drove round like an idiot.

And how many thought , look there is Chris, nice lad, smooth driver and always takes extra care with ladies travelling alone and makes sure they get inside their front door before driving off for the next fare.

Who knows, might be worth trying a different approach to getting business but then if you have been a cabbie for 35 years you know it all anyway and the clients should just walk up and give you the money for doing F*** all.

Sorry not having a go at you Chris (I don't know you) but just a view of a recent experience in getting a black cab in Manchester recently.

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Hi JD

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, I would have to hold my hands up and say with the meetings we had with council and promises we were given, along with the recent court case has changed nothing with regards to the amount of flimping in our area. Basically, (some of) the Private Hire lads couldn't give a monkeys.

Chris

Well at least you tried.

Regards

JD

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Hi Tulsablue

I'm certainly not a misery. I believe the vast majority of lads where I work would not be moody with a punter unless the customer is a pain in the backside with us. However, that said, noticing flimp after flimp going on infront of you doesn't exactly put you in a good mood.

If you take the same situation from a Private hire driver who has just nicked a job for £20 from a Hackney rank - I'm quite sure there will be a nice big cheesy smile on his face and I'm sure he'll be nice and chatty to his customers - correct? I don't think he'll be stone faced, but may drive like an idiot for a while to get away from the rank.

I've obviously woken up in 'blonde' mode today but what's a "flimp"

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illegally ply for hire

CC

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Have you or your colleagues taken photos or videos?

I would do that and e-mail them to every councillors, every week until something gets done.

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chris007. I know some one who would love to come up there and film illegal shenanagin`s............................

Lets decide the terminology. First, up here in Edinburgh, we call it "cgulling" i.e. picking up off the streets - flimping sounds like something completely different

I know you don't think this is a serious point but how the feck do you expect anyone to take you in earnest, by using the word "flimp"?

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We used to call it 'Pirating' around here, till we deregulated, then it all stopped, because IMO, if your going to deregulate, you got to do it properly

CC

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What's derregulation go to do with pirating You either can pick up off the streets or you can't. If you can't and you do that's not only pirating but it's illegal.

Anyway at the end of the day the HC's have to be sure that the PH picking up off the street isn't on a booking which in itself is difficult to ascertain and around here it is also difficult to ascertain whether the HC that is picking up in L'pool with outer town plates on it are picking up illegally as nearly all HC's here work for PH companies so it is perfectly legal for them to go outta town and pick up. The policy makers have a difficult job on their hands and unless sensible soloutions are put forward that ressolve matters this problem is not going to go away

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Make the rules so easy you dont have PH?

Then hey presto no more PH and no more pirates (sorry Mr Depp)

CC

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Forgive me but if there is that much work being pinched by the PH, how come you don't have any? Well it would seem like not much if you have time to watch flimp after flimp.

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