Taxi Driver Online

hi folks,

Just wondered if its right to de-limit taxi numbers? Im an owner driver

working in Kilmarnock, i drove somebody elses car for about 8 years then

decided i wanted my own car. I paid quite a bit of cash for my plate and i

dont think its right that ive got to pay and some other people want a plate

free. Why dont the few people that want a plate save up or get a loan like

the rest of us had to.

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Never argue with an "IDIOT" They will drag you down to their level then beat you with experience

You don't own a plate. They do - the council.

You bought into the directorship of a company that holds a plate. The plate is worthless. No intrinsic value. You've been conned Santa.

Oh and btw, taxi plates are non transferable. . . .

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

you did the right thing dont listen to skull he just doesnt believe in santa..and hes one of the de-limit brigade but theres not many of them

I speak the truth santa, and I'm sorry for your plight but that doesn't change a thing.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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You didn't have to - you chose to.
That's the gamble, my son.

BTW did you ever consider you were paying £xxx for a bit of plastic and a sheet of paper, both of which were given free to somebody?

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Because the vast majority of us don't pay for plates.

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IDFIMH

just becouse an injustice was done to you ,do you think it is right that that injustice should therfore be administered to everyone else for the rest of time.

or is it not improvement to remove the risk that you had to take.

i do feel for you, but at the end of the day you should not have paid and you should not have been led into believing you had to pay.

and certainly the local authority should have made you aware that what you were emberking on was not only foolish but probabnly illegal.

in fact they should have protected you and prevented you from doing it in the first place.
rather than helping to facilitate it.
dont you think.

kinda like being a smoker,or having lead paint or asbestos in schools.

yeh it was good enough for me so it should be good enough for future generations.


aye ok

Dundee use to regulate the number of taxis and it didn’t allow corporate status of a licence; this in turn meant that when the operator retired or passed away the license would be returned to the council. The council also had a waiting list for driver’s who wished to apply and the first on the list paid his fee and received the said licence. Dundee de-regulated in 1999, and still it, is de regulated, and I can assure you that I personally don’t know of any operator out there who is happy with de- regulation, which also includes all of the drivers who were waiting on the councils list to apply.

Don’t think for one minute de- regulation is the answer to all your problems as it only amounts to longer hours for a lot less money.

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Watch out curiosity killed the cat

well put over and out but they are not going to listen as they know better...

maybe it was an artificially lucrative market.
maybe thier aint that much money in taxi's.
unless you artificialy restrict competition,that is.
but that would be the case for most business's i would imagine.

besides,its all relative to cost's and if the driver has no control over them and the cost to him is dictacted to by a fellow driver who has no grasp of business practices,then i am more than sure that the driver is no better or worse off financially in a derestricted market or restricted one.
the main difference being is that he at least has some degree of control.
he has job security,he has control over vehicle costs,his shift patterns,he's his own boss and none of it can be taken away at the whim of an owner.

are you in de nile dug
i and others put over some decent points.
care to retort or is youre hied now in the sand.

ahh the haves and havenot's eh

funny thing is thats what happens here.
and were regulated.
fuel prices came down.
damn sure you can pick up taxi's dirt cheap.
so costs are down.

so why are rentals on the up.
you tell me over and out.
in your own words

do you have any quality controls o and o