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Taxi drivers resisting dress code


Ken Usher says GNER's dress code for drivers is "way out of order"
Taxi drivers who work from York Station say they will not give in to a rail firm's demand for them to wear ties.
The company GNER wants drivers to ditch their T-shirts and trainers in favour of a new dress code of shirt and tie, dark tailored trousers and black shoes.

But dozens of the self-employed drivers have signed a petition complaining about the new rules for safety reasons.

GNER says it just wants to deliver a more consistent standard of service for its rail passengers.


The dress code is due to be introduced in October, but some drivers have complained that wearing ties puts them at greater risk from rowdy passengers.

First impressions

Taxi driver Ernie Wheldon said: "You can be grabbed round the neck by a tie and that puts you off driving so you could have a crash."

Ken Usher said he thought GNER was "way out of order" for trying to impose the dress restrictions.

"There's no way the majority of drivers are going to dress as GNER stipulates," he said.

But GNER's corporate affairs manager Alan Hyde said the company was quite happy for drivers to wear clip on ties if they preferred.

"It's trying to get a consistent standard of service and creating the right first impression," he said.

"I think that's very important to tourists and business people arriving at York."

The taxi drivers are of course right ties are dangerous and so are clip on ones, I can tell you from personal experience that id a tie comes off in one of these nutters hands, the fury it evokes is enourmous.

GENR want to run trains properly and leave taxis to proffesionals.

I think the rail company are spot on, and it's a sad reflection on the trade when outsiders have to point out to us, what (in general) a bunch of scruffy buggers we are.

If you think I'm wrong, then just go along to one of the taxi shows and see some of the sights.

As for the clip on ties, well if the police use them, then I can't see why they shouldn't be used by the taxi trade.

However, if the taxi drivers don't want to look respectful on the railway forecourt, then they don't have to sit there.

Do what they have done at Watford, and put a PH firm in.

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Why is it that its ok for the policie, then ok for us? never heard anything so stupid!
then you go on about private hire , no comparison, then you say look at the trade shows Sissex are you totaly losing your senses?

you are now showing just how little you know about the taxi trade.

the train opperating company are out of order full stop>

Time for the spell checker me thinks

And who is this person sissex

like this site, my computer is programed accidentally to put words in wrongly, must get a new one now we have school teachers on the taxis,

perhaps you would like us to wear school uniforms to make you feel at home?

Guest pick any forum and print in in a straight accross line and read what you have written, hey presto!

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If coucils say that cars should be smart then why shouldn't drivers.
If drivers dont like the rules then dont sit at the station.
We should be trying to improve our standards not letting the scruffy gits win.

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Well according to the press http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/archiv ... l16ZM.html
clip on ties are already used there, and for that matter many more stations on the line.

Perhaps they also know nothing about the cab trade.

Still it's nice to see that somewhere in Yorkshire civic pride is present.

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That may or may not be the case, but they have the upper-hand, and as Ian Gillies, secretary of Station Taxis says in http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/archiv ... l26ZM.html drivers have other options.

In other words if you don't like the rules, then go away and let those who do, clear up.

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IDFIMH

one does not need to wear a collar and tie to be smart, you can wear a collar and tie and not be smart!

which is as well, setting up a new venture, I am shortly to be attending a round of important meetings, so today after looking dor a tailor after mine retired, and establishing that these days suits are bought off the peg.

I visited Huddersfield in order to buy a beige suit, brown shirt and beige tie shouldnt be difficult I thought!

Now I have not done this for years, up to last year I phoned my tailor who came round with pattern and cloth samples and I would have choice of at least a thousand.with style patterns of about one hundred and fifty

In to Burtons, all the sales staff smartly dressed in jeans and t shirts, choice of off the peg patterns about 10, but there was a beige suit I liked the colour and style, the quality of the cloth was very poor, at least to what I am acostomed too.

special offer suit shirt and tie for £130, the wife said I would need beige socks, I only have black albeit thousands, so we needed them 3 pairs for £10, though we got them half price, or 2 packs for the price of one.

we did take a brown shirt with a dubious pattern and a brown tie, though it didnt suit but was part of the deal, incidently Burtons to my amazement did not sport a tape measure, so suits and trousers had to be tried till we got the right size

We left and into Top Man looking dor a brown shirt and beige tie!
we said to the topman wearing jeans amd t shirt we need a brown shirt and a beige tie.

"aw yer dont want that you want this" pointing to an awfull yellow shirt.
"young man", said I" do you have a suit"? well no excepting for a matching denem top to go with his jeans, we talk here about a district that produced some of the finest cloth in years gone bye!

we left that shop, we entered a department store, formely c and a, There were no smart collar shirts there at all, all horrible check patterns, never seen so much crap assembled in one place!

I know said the wife lets go to Marks and Spencer! well thats changed since I was last in, you could have any colour of plain shirt as long as they were white! what was there was horrible.

Into Greenwoods, years of dressing men they had beige, yellow, white, but no brown. but the salestaff srill well dressed in denham!

time for coffee we went to British Home Stores and had a look at thier menswear as we were there, poor shirts, poor patterns, poor quality and again in plain colours only white.

looked round the Market which fared better blood red, white, beige,blue both light and dark, green both spearmint and dark, alas no brown.

this was beggining to be a challenge, as we were passing an expensive suit hire shop and tailor (which was noted for next year) we popped in guess what? the salesman in his 50s smart and wearing both collar and tie very helpfull no call for brown these days, though he dug one out, the cloth felt like velvet, very comfortable nice, though the shade was a little light it was German made ,priced at £50 ,he offered it me for £35, and we bought a beige tie for £15.

We did look in the co-op which had a wide range of aquare gaudy coloured shirts.

Came home to look on the internet, same story poor quality foreign made shirts.

now lets come to GNER staff, poor sods they look uncomfortable in heavy navy blue with bright red stripes, you can glimpse from outside the station.
which get a stare.

so why dont people dress smart in collars anymore?

beccause textiles are produced not in Britain but backward hot third world nations and not tailored to high British standards, nor frankly do they appreciate our needs.

and whilst we are fobbed off with poor quality, designer labels this will continue.

Geoff

Why don't the train companies stick to what they know best, RUNNING TRAINS.

Well I'm not that sure they are on their own, by wanting to impress visitors.

That's the problem with this trade, stuck in the past with Victorian rules, and in some places Victorian clothes.

Some PH/taxi operators have dress codes, and drivers can either adhere to those rules, or go elsewhere.

If you are picking up the dregs from the pubs and clubs, clearly it doesn't really matter what you wear. But if you pick up from posh hotels, or do pukka work, then you shouldn't look like a bag of poo.

The choice is yours.

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