Yorkie wrote:
given your scrawls elsewhere you are a racketman, which wants taxi restrictions and will play a game by giving private hire a role to acomplish it.
All I can tell you is that I am a PH driver who's only income is what I take in my car.
I'm not playing any game here Yorkie, I have seen my income fall since delimitation, I have seen our regular customers let down when drivers leave the office I work from believing the HC trade is more profitable.
I have heard people argue that delimitation meets the demands of our customers, when I have whitnessed first hand that waiting times have risen for a PH vehicle in the area I work.
Now I'm not saying that this will be what happens anywhere else, ONLY that its what I percieve to be happening here, only that it could be a possibility worthy of consideration.
What seems to be forgotten on here is the implimentation of the DDA which ONLY has implications to the HC fleet, if a single tier was introduced then that would have severe financial implications, not only on myself but also on every other PH driver who has no desire to have a HC.
All I am asking for is clear legislation, which puts the demands of the public at the fore. The only way to properly achieve this is for councils to properly investigate, using every available facility, what the transport demands of the people they represent are and provide them with a choice of services to cover their needs.
I believe that some people have lost sight of what this trade is all about, and thats providing proper service to our customers. If we do that well then we make money, regardless what plates' fixed to our rear bumper.