Sussex wrote:
So that deals with the where, but why should a restricted area be better for the public than a un-restricted area?
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Well taking Dunfermline as the only example i have any personal experience of as a customer, before the free for all was authorised, the trade was made up of full time drivers or busineses (when this spell check arrives i'll be happy) who provided a professional dedicated service 24 hours a day, some shared their cars but in the main they were owner drivers. (i have no idea if the plates were free or not)
Now then all these part time drivers and cars appear, firemen, dockyard workers etc, and push some of the long term drivers out, thus diminishing the service.
Then some of these part time guys decide its boring, hand their plates back and again a shortage occurs.
Now you would think after that some of the part timers would go full time to meet the lack of service and presumably extra cash thats floating around, but to date they have'nt and the waiting times during the busy times have increased.
Now i'm not questioning the professionalism of part timers, god knows London has enough, mainly about 78 yrs old, who do a sterling job, but if you have a full time job that pays the mortgage, i would assume that would take priority, and as Dunfermline has demonstrated the public has suffered.
I know little about the rest of the country and of what prevails locally to yourselve(s)
And if you are on your 6 month break, all i can say its a good time of year not to be sitting in a taxi if my day was anything to go by.
. . . . . JD might know a lot about he trade?? How can you not mention TDO, he knows all! Does'nt he?
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