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Author:  Nidge [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:40 am ]
Post subject:  Not a bad job if you can get it.
From a Hull paper.

I tendered a job for a long distance taxi run and I got the inside info on what had been tendered so far. This was a 130 mile each way trip for a disabled school child and it went for £220 for the round trip everyday.

so the kid could go to a special school somewhere near St Helens. (from Hull)

I know its been bid for, for at least 2 years.

So roughly mon - fri the driver took the kid and waited all day till they finished school then took them home for about £190 per day after fuel.

£950 per week for working days taxi driving is good trust me
Author:  Sussex [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:55 am ]
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The more coming into the trade the better.

But it does give evidence as why this country hasn't got a pot to p**s in.
Author:  bloodnock [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:05 pm ]
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No wonder the Nations broke...1 kid £950 a week and 200 weeks and roughly 40 School weeks a year, thats £38,000 a year,

Why cant they get their act together and place kids like this wee mite somewhere closer to home for their own well being..Imagine how it must feel to do a round trip of 260 miles a day...and this kid is just one of hundreds of thousands going back and forth every day up and down the country....it must cost Billions in transport.

And thats just Special needs....there are hundreds of thousands more getting free transport from social services from one school to another just to please fussy parents with some kind of domestic issues that the rest of us has to pay for to sort out.

Dont get me wrong, im as charitable as the next guy and im sure this child needs special schooling..but sure there should be a cost limit to us Tax and Community charge payers on what we should have to shoulder financially to help these unfortunates...Im sure they dont all have to travel such vast distances in order to live as normal a life as is possible...more so for kids from homes broken by their parents themselves.

:roll:
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:16 pm ]
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i pick up 1 kid

nice detached house

big twin axle tourer caravan
4x4 crew cab pickup
mini (new shape)
£9K motor bike in the garage
caterham/westie/7 in the garage

as they get a free taxi to school they will also be getting the £15K/year fees paid

not special needs as such
Author:  sasha [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Not a bad job if you can get it.
Midlander wrote:
So roughly mon - fri the driver took the kid and waited all day till they finished school then took them home for about £190 per day after fuel.

Sitting at the side of the road for 6'ish hours every day with nowt to do, it'd drive me mental ! Mind you for nearly a grand a week I'd plate a camper van and install a 50'' plasma with full surround sound to watch whilst I waited !!

Bet the guy would be well pi**ed if he lost the contract.
Author:  Nidge [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:44 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
i pick up 1 kid

nice detached house

big twin axle tourer caravan
4x4 crew cab pickup
mini (new shape)
£9K motor bike in the garage
caterham/westie/7 in the garage

as they get a free taxi to school they will also be getting the £15K/year fees paid

not special needs as such


Sounds like a one I used to do last year. Sutton in Ashfield to Newthorpe 13 miles. Newthorpe to the childrens school under 1 mile, then return in the afternoon.

The 2 children had hearing problems, they lived in a massive gaff with 5 bedrooms, 2 cars on the drive paid for via Motabilty, parents didn't work the usual stuff.

When I picked them up I always had to wait 15-20 minutes because the mother and father had only just got up.

Why couldn't they take them to school??
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:01 pm ]
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How do they do it?

the parent(s) work for themselves

so they either "adjust" sole trader accounts to show nil income (and maximum WFTC)

or


go "Ltd" company, employ themselves on £75/wk and it all slots into place nicely

now apply that to those times you wonder why a TAXI seems to be cheap, cos thats what quite a few in many trades do
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:02 pm ]
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BTW, dont wait over 5 minutes

if its regular get the county education to remind them they have a set pickup time
Author:  skippy41 [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:07 pm ]
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If he is hack he could make some extra while waiting, just get at a PH office to take him on :D
Author:  Nidge [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:26 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
How do they do it?

the parent(s) work for themselves

so they either "adjust" sole trader accounts to show nil income (and maximum WFTC)

or


go "Ltd" company, employ themselves on £75/wk and it all slots into place nicely

now apply that to those times you wonder why a TAXI seems to be cheap, cos thats what quite a few in many trades do


They live off the DLA and the disability payments they get for the children. It adds up to a handsome each week / month.
Author:  Nidge [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:30 pm ]
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skippy41 wrote:
If he is hack he could make some extra while waiting, just get at a PH office to take him on :D


I sacked it off last year when it came up for renewal, I put it up £1.50 each way £3 per day. Another drip of a driver came in and put a silly quote in of £11 each way, he's after getting rid of it but no one will take it off him. He's stuck with it for 2 years.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:44 pm ]
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skippy41 wrote:
If he is hack he could make some extra while waiting, just get at a PH office to take him on :D



you should know theres no extras on school contracts, and no "vomit" money after pukies.......i was told to ask the family

i just made the lad sit on the same seat
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:45 pm ]
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Midlander wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
If he is hack he could make some extra while waiting, just get at a PH office to take him on :D


I sacked it off last year when it came up for renewal, I put it up £1.50 each way £3 per day. Another drip of a driver came in and put a silly quote in of £11 each way, he's after getting rid of it but no one will take it off him. He's stuck with it for 2 years.



the most hes stuck with it for is a month......
Author:  Nidge [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:09 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Midlander wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
If he is hack he could make some extra while waiting, just get at a PH office to take him on :D


I sacked it off last year when it came up for renewal, I put it up £1.50 each way £3 per day. Another drip of a driver came in and put a silly quote in of £11 each way, he's after getting rid of it but no one will take it off him. He's stuck with it for 2 years.



the most hes stuck with it for is a month......


News is they've nailed them down to 2 years, one chap is trying to get rid of a Doncaster to Lincoln because he qouted to low in the summer, the price he quoted was £30 each way. He has to travel from Sutton in Ashfield to Doncaster then on to Lincoln, then the reverse in the afternoon.
Author:  skippy41 [ Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:21 pm ]
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This is all to do with this new procurement that councils have introduced
basically it means they will award the contracts to the lowest bidder
So be warned if you bid to low and its accepted your stuck with it for however long the contract runs for, or the min that the council stipulates
That's what we where told last week when SBC invited all owners to a meeting at SBC headquarters last week

We can fight back by pricing contracts at meter rates minus 10%
Don't forget the contract starts and ends at your address
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