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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:33 pm 
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187ums wrote:
Driving a taxi and driving ph is different kind of work.


How?


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:34 pm 
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southwalesph wrote:
187ums wrote:
Driving a taxi and driving ph is different kind of work.


How?


PH is upmarket....

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:09 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
southwalesph wrote:
187ums wrote:
Driving a taxi and driving ph is different kind of work.


How?


PH is upmarket....

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So true..Booked through choice and not hailed by necessity..


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:11 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:

So true..Booked through choice and not hailed by necessity..


Especially when you consider there are more mobile phones in use than there are residents in the country....who HASNT got a mobile phone? so why walk to a rank?

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:16 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:

So true..Booked through choice and not hailed by necessity..


Especially when you consider there are more mobile phones in use than there are residents in the country....who HASNT got a mobile phone? so why walk to a rank?
but you can still hail a taxi without walking to a rank


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:22 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
bloodnock wrote:

So true..Booked through choice and not hailed by necessity..


Especially when you consider there are more mobile phones in use than there are residents in the country....who HASNT got a mobile phone? so why walk to a rank?

Why do people then ? Cause they still do...


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:29 pm 
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PH is upmarket....

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:55 pm 
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Confession time! I drive both hackney and PH. When I'm in the PH and go to the pick up point, house, pub whatever, I announce myself as "taxi for XXXX". I'm sorry, I know i should say "pre booked private hire car for XXX" but i don't.


You announce yourself? How do you do that in a crowded pub?

I press a button on my datahead and the customer gets a missed call.

I never reveal what name the job is booked under.. 90% of punters, when needing a taxi (private hire vehicle :lol: ) will say "that's me" if you tell them and jump in. Which in turn leads to angry customers, and receptionists in a bad mood radioing to ask where the hell you are


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:36 pm 
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You announce yourself? How do you do that in a crowded pub?


Whistle, megaphone and a chalk board with name on. Doesn't everyone? :roll:

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:12 pm 
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well the PH guy often gets his job via the pda or whatever they use, it usually tells them where and when to pick up, and where they are going, even the price maybe fixed, all the info is delivered, and if hes incompetent he can use the sat nav.

now the hack driver on the other hand, may get hailed on the street or may be on the rank, he will have no idea of where the job is going to until the customer tells him directly, no pda required, he may use the sat nav, but its pick, drop, no waiting around for the pda.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:57 pm 
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United Taxis 11 wrote:
i had a taxi 5 years ago iv got a ph now, i sold the taxi plate cause a was not well and had to stay off for a year i got good money for the plate and i had the plate for 30 years, i can't see much difference in taxi's and PH's now i suppose having a taxi gives you a bit more presence on the road. where i'm at Wishaw north lanarkshire we don't really bother about PH and taxis we class our self's all as TAXIS and a taxi is called a general and a private hire is called, a private.



I'd sooner take a job in tescos than get involved in the London slave trade, aka London minicab trade.

Swap my 3/4 shifts for 7 days a week?

Pmsl!! :lol:


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:18 pm 
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United Taxis 11 wrote:
i had a taxi 5 years ago iv got a ph now, i sold the taxi plate cause a was not well and had to stay off for a year i got good money for the plate and i had the plate for 30 years, i can't see much difference in taxi's and PH's now i suppose having a taxi gives you a bit more presence on the road. where i'm at Wishaw north lanarkshire we don't really bother about PH and taxis we class our self's all as TAXIS and a taxi is called a general and a private hire is called, a private.



I'd sooner take a job in tescos than get involved in the London slave trade, aka London minicab trade.

Swap my 3/4 shifts for 7 days a week?

Pmsl!! :lol:


would you get a job in Tesco's though?

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:21 pm 
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That's easy, I'd buy the company.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:25 pm 
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That's easy, I'd buy the company.


we're not all from muckty ffs :lol: :lol: :lol:

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