toots wrote:
This was pre de-restriction some 8 years ago. Surprisingly or maybe not so surprisingly pirating still goes on. There will be a queue of taxis outside on the rank and people will walk over to PH and be picked up. The HC's don't know if it's pre booked or otherwise. However to give the council their due they are now doing test purchases to try and weed out the culprits, we can but see how it goes.
Indeed, but no one ever claimed that derestriction would eradicate these problems altogether.
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It was also pre the open drinking hours. You no longer get the bounce where you had more customers than taxis/ph. Anyway WBC now have the issues of over ranking at night outside the clubs and pubs of the Wirral. Over ranking in daytime at the shopping areas. With few or very taxis available Sun, Mon, Tues or Wed evening and night cos it just isn't worth the effort to come out. They've bred a trade of cherry pickers who will work daytime Mon to Wednesday and day and night on a Thursday to Saturday where drivers work excessively long hours
Bit of a contradiction between drivers working excessively long hours and cherry picking, Toots.
And for cherry picking, perhaps read drivers working the shifts that suits them rather than being dictated to?
Indeed, I suspect even Tone gets to 'cherry pick' when he wants to work, although some jockies don't have that choice.
And do you work the hours dictated by your circuit, or do you cherry pick yourself, perchance?
This bit is particularly interesting as well:
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With few or very taxis available Sun, Mon, Tues or Wed evening and night cos it just isn't worth the effort to come out.
It it isn't worth the effort, presumably that means because there's too many taxis for the customer deman on those nights, so what's the problem?
You want more taxis out when it's quiet????
Seems to me that what you call cherry picking is just the laws of supply and demand working, and what happens in the taxi and PH trades with and without restrictions on numbers.
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