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Maybe.....but some of these super dooper new authorities are counties, if Northumbria adopted your thinking a driver would have to have a knowledge of streets from Berwick sixty or seventy miles south to virtually Durham and as far across as the Cumbrian border.

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A few points of clarification:

- The limit has been in place for four years, I think, but the limit has certainly not 'just' been added.

- Prior to that it was open, but it was never de-reged, simply because there was never a limit in the past.

- There was no influx of new applicants from Dundee - there have always been one or two but no influx with de-reg, because as I said it was always open prior to being capped.

- To my knowledge any drivers from Dundee have been invited across by the local offices, they haven't just appeared of their own volition.

- There might be one or two more Dundee plates now than in the past, but I think that was mainly due to one of the long-standing local (female) drivers getting involved with a Dundee guy both personally and in business, but it's certainly the case that there was no influx due to any cap coming off, because there wasn't one in the first place.

- What did happen was that plates in the area rose from 100 to 150 in the YEAR prior to the cap going on, and I'm convinced that a lot of the new plates went on to beat the cap - which was well flagged up in advance - thus the cap MADE THINGS WORSE.

- Interestingly, there WAS an influx from ELSEWHERE IN FIFE prior to the East cap going on, but not from Dundee. I suspect this was because the survey used to justify the cap was Fife-wide, and lots of people from Glenothes, Kirkcaldy, Levenmouth etc thus knew there would be a limit going on in the East zone, therefore they thought they could get a piece of the action (eg £40k plates) that was happening in the other zones. In contrast, no one in Dundee would have known what was going on, so there were no carpetbaggers from there as far as I know. Also worth mentioning is that there were to my knowledge no plates from elsewhere in Fife prior to the East cap going on.

The advert was ine St Andrews Citizen last week and it did look a bit odd.

I suspect that it was just the firm trying to look more official than they actually are and that Fife Council won't be too amused about it and won't have endorsed the content of the advert in any way.

But I doubt if anyone in East Fife was particularly bothered about it because the firm is unknown up here and the chances of it recruiting anyone/securing a foothold are effectively nil.

I suspect that the advert won't be repeated.

Perhapse he has a few school contracts with Fife council and considers that enough to use the council name.

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Grandad,

As for what you say about St Andrews I am only stating what I was told and yes you agreeg there was an influx of plates in that area but nobody from Kirkcaldy got involved FACT. As for this certain company using the Council's name it has just confirmed to everybody in this area that there is something not right going on with this company and the Council. Expect to hear a lot more about this because the local Taxi and Private Hire Operators are ready to lobby many bodies for a full investigation of this advert and many other allegations

Yes, but it was the cap going on that caused it, you got it completely the wrong way round.


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Well like your other FACTS that's not quite correct either. Most of the new plates from elsewhere in Fife were from the Glenrothes area, but there was deffo Kirkcaldy addresses on the register.

However, I think most of them disappeared pretty quickly when they realised it wasn't a land of milk and honey.

I recall that when the cap went on the local Association head honcho was moaning about new drivers from elsewhere in Fife, but I can't recall Dundee mentioned - indeed, I suspect any drivers from Dundee knew NE Fife better than the drivers from Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes, Inverkeithing etc.

But the funny thing was that the Association's second in command had an address in....


....Leven






As I said the council won't be best pleased and the advert probably won't be repeated, but I doubt if it's going to change the course of history.

As for lots of other bodies conducting full investigations of the trade and council, I'd be careful what you wish for

You have hit the proverbial nail on the head!

You have hit the proverbial nail on the head!

I remember that, the Inverkeithing / Dalgety Bay ones used to have an 'I' on the plate if I remember correctly.

I agree about Dunfy, there's little unmet demand now, except for the drivers.

This week's instalement reads:

Taxi Central Ltd wish to apologise for last week's advert which incorrectly stated that Fife Council are involved with this arrangement. This is not the case and we retract this advert...

I wonder how many of the public read it and thought that this company must be ok the daft council has them on board