bigbadwolf wrote:
the thing is in crewe the whole truth is not being told ,the drivers protesting or who started the complaing are the ones who work off crewe station ,crewe and nantwich taxi association used to run the permits for there and tried to run a closed shop ,if you enquired for a permit you were told there was none available ,in the end this was challenged and told they would be taken to court ,they then had to issue permits to any one that wanted one and the floodgates opened as virgin trains who operate crewe station had no restricitions on numbers ,virgin then brought in fraser eagle to deal with the permits and white ticket work who went bust owing crewe drivers approx 35 grand in unpaid work ,connect point then took over but a lot of the drivers refused to do any white tickets because connect point had the same directors as fraser eagle ! who owed them money ,this went on and on so private hires were getting all the white ticket work ,now virgin have a company called cab find running the permits so a few started doing the white ticket work again and were getting paid but 90% of them still refused to do any white ticket so the staff at crewe got so fed up of being told what to do with there tickets they stopped fetching them out and cab find enlisted private hire companys to do the work the hackneys were refusing to do so a large chunk of the hackneys work was gone ,also last year virgin introduced new time tables which meant a lot of the trains didnt stop at crewe any more so the footfall of passengers dropped and a lot of the cream jobs had gone so more local jobs were appearing ie £3.60 fares which a lot refused to do so these passengers also stopped using them and turned to private hire so they had now lost approx 2/3rds of there work and reality as started to hit home now that there not earning and fighting between themselfs for what little work is now left for them ,now they are compaining they want the white ticket work back which is being done a lot cheaper by private hire firms and the work gets done ,so after all the moaning ,refusing work they have decided theres to many taxis and want the numbers stopped by the council ,none of the above did they tell the paper,radio,and mp who all turned up to here there complaints [/b]
When Fraser Eagle went to the wall owing the drivers £35K, and Virgin Rail subsequently allowed the phoenix company to take over the running of the operation, who subsequently went to the wall owing many people lots of money.
Do you think the drivers were wrong to refuse to do the work?
Cabfind, in so far as I am aware have only taken over this operation in the last month, according to a search they have assests of £15K, which is half the price of a TX but 100% of a Skoda, in respect of them illegally passing on PH work across district borders, do you think they are outside the scope of the laws of England?
If and when the DFT and Virgin Rail are contacted to advise of the legality of passing PH work across borders, in respect of Cabfind, do you think they'll go bust?
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