Taxi Driver Online

Not sure why the earlier thread was locked, but I can't really see why, so I've responded in this new thread




Plenty of restricted areas have poor standard motors which don't fare well in spot checks.

Anyway, why don't you use your "it's an enforcement isssue" here, Toots?




Well that's a problem everywhere, and what about drivers paying inflated rentals and servicing a loan for a plate?




How does allowing a jockey to drive his own car contribute to congestion?



Where's the evidence for that? I suspect what it means is that owners used to lording it over drivers suddenly can't get them and the drivers can choose their own hours, so they're cherry picking, the basards!!




Well I suspect around 5% of drivers in the UK combined trade (if that) benefit from restricted numbers, so not much of an argument.




Didn't you say PH numbers increased with delimitation and more HCs joinged circuits?



Well the Edinburgh HC trade is always complaining about rising PH numbers and plates were changing hands for £30k about 10 years after restriction and rose to around £50k, although the recession has dampened things down a bit.



I can't see the relevance of this. You might as well use theft/robbery/burglary figures for the UK as a whole to say something muggings of taxi drivers in restricted areas, but that would be completely unscientific and irrelevant.

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Caledonian Cabbie

Well I did read it,

And it WAS very boring.

I found it highly enjoyable reading.

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IDFIMH

Sussex,

I do hope you are being sarcastic.
:?

If anyone wants to know whether a cap is a good or a bad thing, you should check the derestriction section on this very forum. The answer is there.

Not so cos theft/robbery/burglary have their hotspots and it is easier to note where these things are more likely to happen this is not so the case with rape.

De-restriction does bore the pants of me (if I actually wore them) I personally don't see the problem with restriction if there is no unmet demand. What I will say is there are those in Edinburgh that bang the drum for de-restriction saying that plates are being sold and drivers are being prevented from having a plate. Yet when they are the lucky recipient of a 2nd or maybe a 3rd plate what do they do? Do they give it away to one of the less fortunate drivers, no they sell it, to prove a point. They only point they are proving is they have double standards and say one thing but do another

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

It all comes down to proper quality controls and the enforcement of regulation. There is absolutely no reason why a jokey, paying a rental, should be denied unfettered access to the tools of his trade.

Although there is, the little matter of taking control of your own trade?

Toots, you are the politicians dream. ..

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I take it by the way you rolled your eyes that you don't think that's a good thing

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Apart from the fact theres two different licenses.

I like the way the wee Crank has taught you the word 'unfettered', how many bananas did that take?

CC

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Tell me what you want to believe?

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But you can't use figures for all rape throughout the UK and draw conclusions about about taxi-related rape between restricted and undrestricted areas.

You're using figures from the extremely general to draw conclusions about the very particular.

By the way, I meant to say earlier that the DFT or OFT did the numbers on the driver safety/tiredness aspect between restricted and unrestricted areas and concluded there was no difference.




Which has what to do with the principle generally?

Again, you're arguing against the general using the particular.

If a politician is displaying double standards then the voters should judge him/her on that, but that shouldn't affect the efficacy of policies and principles generally.

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Caledonian Cabbie

Well you were warned Frank, so presumably you just had a read so you could have a bitch about it.

In fact I'm not even convinced that you did read it

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Caledonian Cabbie

Thats interesting, why did the OFT (I suspect) do that?

Do you know what their remit at the time actually was?

Are you aware of the transport select committees opinion of the investigation was?

CC

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CC, writes:


Well,

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Because people like Toots were claiming there was a link?



Not precisely, but I'm all ears.



At a rough guess, I would say the same as your own.

But wasn't that the one where the MP who claimed to be an ex London cabbie didn't know what waiting time was

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Caledonian Cabbie

Caledonian Cabbie, is going to refute every point you may make blow, for blow.


Toots, CC, you are an exercise.

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