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The latest edition of the LTDA's newspaper, Railway issue free as always.

http://www.taxinewspaper.co.uk/latest_issue.html

More on the murderer and the licensing of Smart Cars as Minicabs.

Perhaps I'll get a driver on board for my one?

i could fit 2 smart cars inside my cab.........maybe i should offer my services as a transporter for them!!

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

That's because we're getting a new super duper magazine very shortly, minus the 18 pages of adverts for the Glasgow Taxi Warehouse, and the Rebelious Minicab promoter that Taxi Talk has.

The link will be 'under construction' for a bit until the new style 'TAXI' is launched.

Will it have adverts for LTI who lost millions on that 'taxi' service they were offering, or are they not back in yet after falling out with you lot about the COF?

Talking minicabs....hows that comcab funding coming along?

I did prefer 'taxi' when it was a magazine anyway.

CC

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

LTI have been advertising for a few years now.

I wouldn’t listen to the Railway folks about Com Cab and the LTDA too much, that relationship is further apart than ever, their drivers don't even have to join the LTDA anymore.
Comfort Delgro is Com Cab, not the LTDA.

Our current 8700 members now join / stay because they can see who serves their interests best.

As Sheldon starts his column off this month . . .

It is amusing in a sad kind of way, while the London trade pulls itself to bits minicabs are making in roads.

CC

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

Are they?

I see an industry where non-English speaking drivers work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, overcharging, getting lost, driving cramped clapped out Astra’s . . . and that's Inroads?

The real London Trade may have some disputes (don't we all in any town) but that's limited to a few individuals. 99% of the 26'000 Taxi drivers do an outstanding job, hence the reason we're voted the best in the world every year.

Why does the PH trade in London loose hundreds of drivers every year?

Why does no one leave the Taxi trade to drive a Minicab?

Why do they have to raid Romanian Orphanages to recruit Minicab drivers?

Why, even after 8 years of licensing, do people still associate them with sexual assaults, crime, and being a second class 'Taxi' service?

You're listening to the likes of Bernie May too much, that guy has a knack of making the whole trade look bad because we don't adhere to his (cough) 'high standards' of dress code?

He's one miserable bitter old lad from where I stand.

Perhaps he should take up a hobby?

Like promoting Scabs?

Its a casual observation from 300 miles away.

CC

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

Its only 262 miles.

From Carlisle to London?

ffs dont give quotes.

CC

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

Thats AOL for you.

If Griffen has his way we won't exist and neither will his competition. He has made massive accounts turn from taxis to his company. If that's the choice the customer wants then maybe the taxi trade will have to go that way with their choice of vehicle the same as many taxi drivers who have diversified into Private hire and mini buses and when the work is tight they venture out in their taxis a couple of days a week.

There you go GBC, you could drive your bone shaker at weekends and your skoda superb during the week
Why not get a load of black cab drivers together and start a PH company you would make more as you all know where your going

Griffens has been spouting the same line since I came to London in the late 80's.

He's no nearer taking over now as he was then. His staff turnover is horrendous, ask Don Glave who posts on here, he's a GMB rep for the Minicab trade and no great fan of JG.

Personally I've never known one driver to transfer over to their side, and why would they?
6 x 12 hour shifts to earn about £700? No thanks.

I've cleared more than that by working Thu / Sat / Sun nights this week, and they weren’t 12 hour shifts.

(B.r.a.k.e - note!)

That isn’t some form of boast or insult to the county lads, that’s fact as to the week I've had.
Work nights and you'll always survive just fine, we have too many 8am until 'it's getting dark' drivers in the trade.

Everywhere I go in London I see the Addison Lee fleet parked up waiting for jobs, the drivers half asleep. They're hurting far more than we are in the slow down.