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You're allowing your personal feelings towards Jim to cloud your judgement. That makes you weak in my book, CC.

can't use a satnav because the power point doesn't work? Or an intercom that is US. Or a rear passenger door that was inop for months, it couldn't be locked. Or a steering box that leaked constantly? Or heater guage that's never worked? Or windows that constantly fail?

I've put up with all of this and more. And gone beyond the call of duty to help this owner

I don't think I am.....but then again I think I've actually read it and others haven't.

As for the personal feelings....I think they are abundantly clear in jaspars post.



Hows that song go....."Nobody knows".....jeez you know all about suffering.

CC

Strange......never had midlander or grumpy as ones for agreeing with bilge.

CC

Is this just you proving that you can't read?

Or can you read but don't have the wit to understand?

What part of what I wrote did you not understand?

Perhaps I should add that the bad blood between us started when his dad sold his share to him. The pressure was on. And the guy just wasn't up for it. I suspect he's not fit and proper to be managing a taxi. I suspect he doesn't start early in rhe morning because he's too [edited by admin] to.


Perhaps this goes back to my raising the issue of filling up after shifts. Now this didn't used to be a problem, but with the high price of fuel it can add up to serious amounts of cash.

The taxi runs a 24p to 25p per mile. It gets worse towards the service.

But after its been to the garage, it shifts upwards.

My last three days off it rose to 28p per mile, the next night it was back to normal. 4p over 100 miles is four quid, nearly a grand a year.

How is it that you can be out of the car for 3 nights and always return to a price hike. And I have the data to show it. Same with a garage trip?

And how is it that you can't use a satnav because the power point doesn't work? Or an intercom that is US. Or a rear passenger door that was inop for months, it couldn't be locked. Or a steering box that leaked constantly? Or heater guage that's never worked? Or windows that constantly fail?

I've put up with all of this and more. And gone beyond the call of duty to help this owner. The car going on fire just one story.

A spare tyre that was also US, the AA had to be called. A jack that wasn't up to the job. Dirty wheelchair ramps. And a car that rattles so much on the cobbles it positively sings.

Is any of this what customers are payng for? And how has most of this got through the test yet again?

Drivers depend on the cab office to deliver a vehicle that, even for a short time, is OK to drive.

This cab office, under this cab inspector is not delivering even that.

I suspect that the whole system is not fit and proper. It's not being managed in anyway shape or form.

Edinburgh's taxi trade is substantially a shambles.

And that's why PH seems so attractive. The lower tariff is just the clincher.

BTW the universal gloating was a joke. Even Toots hasn't gloated, instead offering real practical advice. I relish this.

Perhaps because we've all been there, and can go there again.

And drivers will until some common decency from the council will allow drivers to work on a vehiucle they own, and are proud of and would want to look after. That's what delivers quality to the customer.

But our council has no decency. There's not a single councillor who would accept what we have to endure. Whch says it all about them.

Just a myth of your imagination Jim, the GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS is to blame for the downturn in my fortunes added to the fact that in the last 10 years there is 300 more black cab licences, controlled growth you know, my way of restriction is the way Jim and you know it

The PHC will alway's have a very limited growth, they have ran out of mugs willing to be enslaved by false promise of we shall overcome the blacks

Alway's willing to keep you right Jim