Taxi Driver Online

so what about the quaint insistance by HC drivers for cash work only?

Captain cab

_________________
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Sounds even better - I wouldn't mind 85 cars even with an average of 20,000 people in St Andrews, if the cars were all singled.

The trouble is that most have two or three drivers and only a minority of us are single-shifted.

it's difficult to tell how many drivers are on each car because the drivers are pooled by the offices so there are always different drivers in each car, but in a magazine article one of the local firms said it had almost 30 drivers and it has around 12 cars. However, a lot of the drivers are part-time, so it's not a case of each car being more than doubled, if you get my drift.

Theres not much in St Andrews more than a mile from the town centre, and they still get taxis everywhere - some nights 80-90% of the work is one mile or so runs out to the halls of residence. So I don't think the size of Bath can be the problem, unless the studens are lazier here

oh Captain I wish you hadnt said that!

or picking off the street, or doing private hire jobs? we are slowly changing him into a winner,!

it matters not the length of time it takes to get there, or the route he takes, its vital he gets there there is too much at stake!

Captain,

I am working on the advertising for this one.looking for the winning slogan
the current scheme is, and I wasnt in on that one, it was taken from the telephonist who says " its on its way"

Ryburn Taxibus
"We are one our way"


this one how about

Tyne Sunshine Taxibus

" The Sun will Shine,
When We Get To The Tyne"
Get me thinkin cap on.

_________________
Come and go as you will,
but Do so with Paddington Bill

Yorkie,

I think GA is always a little hard done by on the site, the guy says it how he see's it, in a trade full of BS you got to admit it is refreshing.

I dont need to tell you and everyone else what the HC trade is, you all know, even GA who has had the "balls" to improvise when he found difficult times. (and I am not taking the [edited by admin] GA)

Unfortunately when you represent people, you may not even be going with your own instincts, but by the will of your members. I suspect this is the case in many places and even with perhaps GA himself.

PS Paddington Bill, perahsp the dittee show go along with the tune fog on the tyne

Captain cab

Captain cab

_________________
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Captain

you ought to see Bills office hes got the base bus white, with a yellow skit rising to the top of the bus in a curve to the back..

hes put an advert on the side, dont know what GA would think!

"if you are deprived of sunray"
"use fast tan spray, every day"

We have a chineese wall dividing buses from Taxis, we booked a bill board for 10 weeks for the bus, there is another board on a railway bridge at the other side of the road.

we put on day glow orange

"never a fuss,
go by bus"

he dropped a clanger by telling the taxi division, the other side of the road was booked by the taxi division.
dayglow yellow

"better by far
by car"

well I thought hell this is a disaster, but no its caused amusement and been fairly successful.

competition in house!

I think the real issue is one of passion CC.

The taxi trade provided me with a good living for many years, I made some real friends most of whom are still involved in the trade, some even in areas outside of Gateshead.

What I'm saying is that I do try to say it as I see it, I don't have a problem when people tell me that its not what they see, or its not what what they want, thats why sites like this become addictive.

I may call Yorkie many different names, he may respond with or initiate similarly "harsh" posts but if push came to shove I can assure you he could count on me to stand in his corner.

I may be doing different things now, but taxidriving is my trade, it is what I have done for most of my working life, I only wish that it was my own decision to leave the trade, but it wasn't.

B. Lucky

Bill, the slogan is simple

on tyne .......every tyne

or you could have

howay and hyem

or

gannin oot, giz a shoot

or

rely on us, and book our bus

(a royalty charge will apply if any of the above are used.)

B. Lucky :twisted

For example?

_________________
Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

B. Lucky

OK I was being slightly mishcievous because you ignored my points in this regard on another thread.

But once or twice you've said PH operators are buying vehicles to rent out, so I immediately think PH vehicles. And don't you mean that it's HC proprietors that are buying the vehciles, or if you want to add the point that they are also PH ops then you should call them PH ops/HC props - it even rhymes

So surely if HCs in Gateshead were still capped then these same people would be renting out PH vehicles for extortionate rentals?

To that extent I still don't get the connection between fleet owners and de-limitation - what about the bloke in Cardiff, for example, who had over 100 plates and was bleating about de-limitation.

Are the rents so extortionate or is it just because the WAVs in question are more expensive to buy and operate? What exactly does the £180 cover, does this include maintenance as well?

I don't really buy the argument that the rentals are higher because the HCs have access to the ranks - that's a bit like saying that The Taxi Centre will charge more for an Octavia if it's being used as an HC rather than a PH - I suspect the higher rentals for the WAV HCs in Gateshead come down to running costs.

Yes, some drivers pay mega-rentals in the trade, but I think this is partly because they can't get credit - clearly the drivers in Gateshead wouldn't be paying the rentals you claim if they could get credit themselves.

So the mega-rentals often amount to little more than a normal rental with a large dollop of interest on top, in effect amounting to usury.

In the normal credit market, the higher the risk you are, the higher the interest rate you will pay. If you can't get normal credit at all, then you'll pay even higher interest, but this might be in the form of the mega-rentals you are talking about.

It's the same with people on council housing estates who can't get normal credit - they have no option but to go to a loan shark.

Now I don't like this any more than you do, but I don't really see this as a reason to restrict numbers, which would just replace one set of users with another set, but I think the sums being extracted are generally larger in the case of restricted numbers.

I can't believe that the fleet owners you compain about are making as much money as you may think, since drivers would look elsewhere and/or others people would see the size of the profits being made and offer rentals as well, and the 'excess profit's' would be whittled away.

_________________
Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

You got in before my main post - I should have done them the other way round.

What I meant was another example

_________________
Taxi Driver Online
www.taxi-driver.co.uk

Its nice to see you admitting that you have misquoted me.

B. Lucky

I mentioned a possible date that the full executive would consider this option as being the 2nd of March, well it transpires that it is going to the Executive meeting of April 6th.

Perhaps all those Gorra plate holders as Mr Cummings would say, can now go down to the Town hall and vehemently express their anger at the Executive for issuing those extra licenses and at the same time vent their feelings at the prospect of allowing other individuals to be afforded the same privilige under derestriction. I wouldn't hold my breath about meeting the other tribal faction the Wannabes as Mr cummings puts it, I doubt he has ever seen a tribe of wannabes in a slanging match with councilors and neither has anyone else. But he obviously isn't going to let that little fact get in the way of a poor story.

Best wishes

JD