Brummie Cabbie wrote:
toots wrote:
..... while the Hacks (who don't want a single tier system) work the PH system until the clubs throw out then they go do what they got licenced to do in the first place, i.e pick up off the road.
It absolutely astounds me that PH in most cases want a one tier system, & even more astounds me that PH operator do too.
Looking at it from a legilimate PH operators viewpoint, what would a one tier system bring to them?
Answer; Distruction of their hard earned businesses in most cases & quite quickly too.
And the reason is that at the moment, working as PH operators they have 'control' over their licensed PH drivers & vehicles.
If a one tier system were introduced & all 'taxis' were allowed to ply, stand & take dispatch work on an even footing, previous PH operators would have very little control over their drivers & vehicles. The result would be that driver A dispatched to a pick-up say 3 miles away, could quite easily be flagged on the way, take that job instead, especially if it was a better job than the one he was sent to pick up, & stuff the dispatched job.
Multiply that scenario by X times a day & the operation now has a growing number of dissatisfied customers & very quickly these long established hard earned previous PH businesses would be going to the wall, because of they could no longer control their drivers.
There are always two sides to every story.
I would like nothing more than to see the PH companies having to work hard for their drivers to keep them. Instead of being able to dictate how much we pay in settles and control the amount of work we actually do. They continue to increase driver numbers even though the work isn't there for the current drivers and it's a classic case of 'I'm alright Jack stuff you'.
Our plight here is there are only a couple of companies now when there use be loads of small individual firms who had regulars. Now there are about 3 firms who have attitudes they've got us over a barrel.
A single tier system would be great here. Those who wanted to work one system or the other could those who wanted to work both systems could. I don't think as a general rule of thumb if a driver had opted to take a job off the system they would then pick up off the street and forget the job they had agreed to do, that would be detremental to their own earning ability if they kept doing that. I think for the most part it would only be of a weekend that you would see any difference in way people work.
What annoys me about the PH companies is they seem to look at us as 2nd class citizens and I've had enough what they forget is we the drivers are their customers, this should be a team effort. The drivers put the bread on companies table, the company should be putting the bread 'buttered' back on our table. I want my monies worth. Now if I were HC on our system I would be getting my monies worth because they don't pay as much settle as we do........... go figure!!
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