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Product could reduce Hull taxi assaults

HULL company PayGo Solutions has launched a product designed to reduce attacks on taxi drivers. The business, based on Citadel Way, east Hull, has produced a pay-as-you-go system aimed at ending confrontations over fare prices.

The company created the system to combat attacks on taxi drivers in Hull and across the UK. The product works by asking customers to pay money up front before the driver sets off.

A meter displays the amount the customer has put in to both the customer and the driver. Once the fare reaches the amount the customer has paid, the driver can either stop until they put more money in or continued to the final destination depending on how trustworthy they think the customer is.

The unit is bolted into bulkhead of the taxi and the money is contained in a safe in the device. The machine can also identify and reject foreign and counterfeit money.

The company launched the system in March this year at the Taxi Talk Magazine trade show in Gateshead. Taxi drivers from as far afield as Hartlepool and Dundee have already shown interest in the product.

Hull taxi driver Shaun Snee has been trialing the unit for the last six months. He said it was a great security feature especially when he was wary of a customer. The unit retails at around £750 or is available on finance at £39.95 per month.

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IDFIMH

How is it going to stop the arguments over the fare? No matter how much it is the punter will still argue over the price, add some alcohol and the punter get's even worse.

Maybe it is the clientele I pick up, but I know what I will have to listen to everyday = "I put £20 in the machine but it is saying I only put £10".

Taxi talk roadshow?

No, that would be the Upfront Taxi Show. Thank you very much.........

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ALS

just get customers to pay by ccard i would thought it be easier than cash, probly end up that way in the few yrs time

I invented a similar system myself when I started driving a taxi.

It's called my voice, and it does'nt cost £40 a month.

Perhaps I should patented the idea?