Taxi Driver Online

So you need to get into street cabs manchester liverpool ect I know a lot of london drivers use twitter and the like.

Sorry but An Edinburgh Black cab company has already beaten you to it

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

A wise move.

I think in 20 years time you might have built up a large base of drivers and customers, but how much it's going to cost you till then, who knows?

The problem you will get is that when it's busy no driver is going to pay for work when there's bundles of it for free, and when it's quiet I think people will walk to a rank or use a free phone.

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IDFIMH

yes toots , there's no worse feeling than when your wife says whats that noise coming from the washing machine and you look at it only to see your phone going round and round, ffs toots you've got me bubbling again

It pays to check your pockets, I'm always doing it with my bank cards

I know the company you mean and the despatch software company they use, Cordic, have developed the app to integrate with their systems.

I guess I'm looking at it more from a passenger point of view in that it would be much better to have a single app that you can use to hail all the taxis in your city and if you go anywhere else in the UK then you can still use the same app to hail a taxi in the area you are in. To me, as an end user, this seems a lot better than having a different app for every taxi company you want to use, all with very different user interfaces.

Again from my perspective as a passenger, I just thought this was a brilliant app and one that I would use over phoning. But if it doesn't strike a chord with the drivers then there wouldn't be much point because all the passenger will see is a map with no taxis to hail!

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Cabulous Smartphone Application
www.cabulous.com

I would also guess that the time when a punter would want to use such an app would be when the can't get a flag down because it is very busy and likewise drivers will be to busy to answer the system.

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Grandad,

or they are in a rural area and see a cab travelling thier way from a firm they wouldnt normally have rung?

what i struggle to understand is what is the applications target market?

there are two types of vehicle owner

1. Independent (like me) small fleet or even 1 vehicle
2. Circuit vehicles renting a radio/datapak

the larger of these is "2" and your system would fragment/threaten the business renting the radio/datapack to each vehicle, if I was renting radios to owners and saw one had your cabulous system id tell em if they aint happy they should leave.....

Wheres my i phone ?

at carphonewarehouse still

If i cant get one free from here, can someone leave one in the back of my cab please ?

The i phone is crap, get a nokia 6310 they just keep on working mine is 10 years old and still no problems still on original battery as well

My son lost his yesterday. It is probably up for sale by now. Keep your ears open and it may come your way. Failing that, have a word with some drug users and I am sure one of them may be able to put one your way for a small fee.

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Grandad,

Actually still got one of those skippy, worth money now !