Taxi Driver Online

Another intriguing passage from Taxi Talk, this time by Mr Charles Oakes:

"I have just paid some £206 for a copy of the Transport Select Committee document and in my opinion, we couldn't have ben represented any better than we were by the two incumbent national bodies, on this stage there was no need for a National Taxi Board."

Shouldn't Mr Oakes be told that he could have downloaded a copy of the report from the web for nothing?

And perhaps we should send him a FREE copy of "Myth and Reality", which doesn't show the Trans Comm in a good light.

Or perhaps say nothing at all, since to tell him might constitute inhumane and degrading treatement, which would breach the Human Rights Act.

I think the cab trade could have been represented by Attila the Hun, and they would have still come out of it looking just 'fine and dandy'.

The select commiittee wanted to hear one side only, and that's what they got, just the one side.

Did they want to speak to the largest representative group of LOs, the Institute of Licensing? Oh no !!!!

Did they want to speak to consumer groups? Oh no !!!!

Wouldn't have had anything to do with the fact that all these were and are anti-quota? Oh yes !!!!

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there we go TDO wheres your accountancy brain?
cost of paper internet time ink cartrages

they are not free!

Maybe not, but they almost are. On my computer the addittional cost of printing out the TC report would probably be around a pound, thus compared to £206, that's effectively free.

You could be right, however, if he doesn't have the gear already, in which case it would cost him the best part of a grand to print it out, but surely he would know someone who would print it out for him.

I would have been quite happy to print one out for him, spend a day driving to him and back, for two hundred quid, and I'd have thrown in a free print-out of Myth and Reality.

And it would still have been my most profitable day this year