Taxi Driver Online

Even with the present fares its getting quiet, and most drivers dont even get anything like the minimum wage I would have an educated guess that they will be on less than £3.00 an hour, for 70 to 80 hours a week
Any driver who drives receives a split bag and because of how much they have to hand over each week they think feck this and put there own cab on only to find out its tough at the top, and now they are starting to suffer.
I was interviewed yesterday by radio borders, and got my free advert in I informed them we needed a rise but not at this time, that went down like a lead balloon with some of the owners and drivers, I even mentioned that I would still do discounts for my regulars and students and would not be putting the £1.00 extra on until midnight.
The thing that really [edited by admin] them of was I said that the fares where the maximum and drivers are free to discount and the public should ask the drivers if they will before getting in.
They only have to put up with me for another 17 years or so before I retire, thats if the government dont price us off the road, and more than likely everyone who is working here now will have moved on and some more new idiots will have taken there place, yes its unbelievable what has happened in the last 28 years

The last thing the public want to hear is that greedy fecking taxi drivers are ramming it right up them.

Fare increases are often a thorny subject and I suppose each area has its own idiosyncrasies but whether or not this particular area can sustain an increase is not for me to say. Obviously most of those cab drivers who work this area were of the opinion that an increase was long overdue. They weren't prepared to accept the councils derisory offer so they appealed to the Traffic Commissioner. The Traffic commissioner then decided the councils offer was unreasonable. The rest is history but it is plain for anyone to see that the council didn't want any increase in fares whatsoever.

Perhaps these drivers were of the opinion that they weren't prepared to subsidise the public's use of taxis and that they would rather take the chance of losing a percentage of work rather than forego a fare increase?

Who knows? But it's their decision and there's alone.

Regards

JD

but whether or not this particular area can sustain an increase

I heard on the Radio that shops increasing their prices face a fall customers coming through their doors.

When people stop spending they stop buying and when they stop buying retailers stop selling and on and on . . . down the plughole . . . .


Never mind people will still spend their money on taxis NOT

They think we're a bunch of greed bas*ards as it is. The local press would eat us a live.

Look on the bright side, Mr. Skull, a fare increase in Edinburgh would therefore depress plate values, and you coul;d then buy another, and sit on it for a couple of years until things get better, then sell it on for a profit?

Plates have no intrinsic "value" Jimbo, only the licence fee.

The reason a driver buys in is to reduce the uncertainty of his employment status, nothing more - 50k+ to buy a job.

You don't catch on very quick now do you Jimbo


Selling a plate for 50K+ is about finding mug that believes it has a value There's no shortage of Jimbos in Edinburgh, you'd be right at home up here.