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As of 18:27 last night I no longer have any stretched limousines. The last one is on it's way to Italy. I will now be concentrating my efforts in the taxi and private hire sector.

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Grandad,

We should all welcome back the 'prodigal son'.

That said, that name could now apply to me.

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IDFIMH

I did hear that the bonnet is now entering the Alps and the boot is just getting on the Ferry at Dover.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

Why?

I always thought that was the game of the future!

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Kind regards,

Brummie Cabbie.

Type a message, post your news,
Disagree with other members' views;
But please, do have some decorum,
When debating on the TDO Forum.

IMO not as a business.....too many tw*ts were doing it as a hobby round here.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

For us the peak was 5 years ago. There was a steady decline from that time. 5 years ago we made the decision to buy a car for doing school contracts. This has gradualy taken over to the extent that now we can't cope with everything and the decision was made last November that our future was better following the school transport route. We sold 2 of our limos at the end of last year and kept the last one to cover the work this summer. We have had to buy 4 more cars for the school work since september so basically the last limo had to go to finance the purchase of these cars. Apart from the school prom season the limo game is almost dead now. 5 years ago we were running 4 limos and in June/July we would take around £5000 per week. This last prom season, even though the cost of a hire was more than double the price of 5 years ago, we only earned £6,000 for the whole of the summer. we now do around £5,000 a week just on school work so we are more than happy.

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Grandad,

GRANDAD!

NO!

YOU KNOW SCHOOL RUNS ARENT PROFITABLE!

They aren't round here when you've got ding bats charging £14 for a £30 school contract.

i am in the midlands

and i do it the other way round.......lol

Personally If a job will cost £30, then that is what I quote. I either get it or I don't. Simples.

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Grandad,

I tried that approach haven't won a contract in 2 years !!!

the winners are always about 50 to 60 % below meter rate !

The transport agency of Lincolnshire County Council have recently introduced a new computerised contract bidding system. I am given to understand that it works like this; Auctions are timed online, and interested bidders log in at say, 1200. Bids are made on a weekly operating basis. So operator "A" bids £200 per week. other bidders go LOWER, bidding down to £150. "A" comes back in at £149. The auction ends at 1230, unless someone makes a last second bid. If "A" makes a last bid of £140 after 1230, that bid is accepted, unless someone makes a further LOWER bid within three minutes of the previous bid. When bidding then stops, the lowest bid "wins" The council expect to save money. Lots of it. And probably will. Those that have built their empires on School contracts must be crapping themselves.

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Former taxi driver

Leics CC are about to implement an online auction too

they descibed it as "Ebay in reverse, lowest bid wins"

whoopee doopeee doo

my current contract runs till march 31st 2013 and then im off, goodnight vienna, exit stage left.

I haven't heard that one yet.

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Grandad,

Your current contract runs for 28 days.

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Former taxi driver