One driver, who did not wish to be named, said: “It’s not uncommon to wait for two-and-a-half hours and earn a £3.60 fare.

Thats quite common around here too.....I'm so f*cking poor its unreal, anyone want to buy my children?

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“ A lot of marriages are on the ropes as well. I’d never argued with my missus before, but it seems like that’s all we’ve done this year.”

If these drivers are working all the hours they say they are, when do they have time to argue with the wife?

Thats quite common around here too.....I'm so f*cking poor its unreal, anyone want to buy my children?

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“The current regulations state that if you turn up with a disabled access vehicle you can have a Hackney Carriage plate. There’s more and more taxis coming through but only six rank spaces in Crewe, and a part-time rank in Nantwich that operates at night.

Don't think the Equality Bill amendment will alter that, unless they all go WAV and the council restricts.

Slim chances of that happening in my view.

cab find enlisted private hire companys

the thing is in crewe the whole truth is not being told ,the drivers protesting or who started the complaing are the ones who work off crewe station ,crewe and nantwich taxi association used to run the permits for there and tried to run a closed shop ,if you enquired for a permit you were told there was none available ,in the end this was challenged and told they would be taken to court ,they then had to issue permits to any one that wanted one and the floodgates opened as virgin trains who operate crewe station had no restricitions on numbers ,virgin then brought in fraser eagle to deal with the permits and white ticket work who went bust owing crewe drivers approx 35 grand in unpaid work ,connect point then took over but a lot of the drivers refused to do any white tickets because connect point had the same directors as fraser eagle ! who owed them money ,this went on and on so private hires were getting all the white ticket work ,now virgin have a company called cab find running the permits so a few started doing the white ticket work again and were getting paid but 90% of them still refused to do any white ticket so the staff at crewe got so fed up of being told what to do with there tickets they stopped fetching them out and cab find enlisted private hire companys to do the work the hackneys were refusing to do so a large chunk of the hackneys work was gone ,also last year virgin introduced new time tables which meant a lot of the trains didnt stop at crewe any more so the footfall of passengers dropped and a lot of the cream jobs had gone so more local jobs were appearing ie £3.60 fares which a lot refused to do so these passengers also stopped using them and turned to private hire so they had now lost approx 2/3rds of there work and reality as started to hit home now that there not earning and fighting between themselfs for what little work is now left for them ,now they are compaining they want the white ticket work back which is being done a lot cheaper by private hire firms and the work gets done ,so after all the moaning ,refusing work they have decided theres to many taxis and want the numbers stopped by the council ,none of the above did they tell the paper,radio,and mp who all turned up to here there complaints [/b]

Don't think the Equality Bill amendment will alter that, unless they all go WAV and the council restricts.

Slim chances of that happening in my view.