MR T wrote:
JD wrote:
MR T wrote:
Sussex wrote:
187ums wrote:
anyway you guys keep going with your campaigns to drive people out of business, lose the value of thier licenses, work longer hours, having more cars on the road, you keep it up!
So are you a fan of the multi owners in places like Liverpool and Cardiff?
That aside, answer me a couple of questions please.
Which side of the trade has grown and taken huge amounts of work off the other side of the trade?
And if number quotas are such a good thing, why does that side of the trade not need them?
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And why does a member of that side of the trade want to be a member of this side of the trade??
Sussex ..You want to be careful what doors you open for you do not know what comes through them after you!!, remember the taxi trade is the only form of public transport open to expansion, No monopolies commissions here........T
Can you Explain expansion?
JD
The cab and priveate hire trade is virgin territory to someone outside of the trade,I was looking at a new purpose built radio system today it will be operational in the next 6 months, it has everything, I was being told that the next generation of system will have the capacity to run every cab and private hire car in the country....We have a bus co called arriva in L,pool it ate all of the others up ,Now we have a train co called arriva....T
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I still can't grasp your reasoning about expansion and the Taxi trade.
I can see the reasoning in one private hire firm taking customers from another whether or not the private hiring is done by a Hackney or Private hire vehicle. I don't see much expansion in that but I do see competition.
I can also see a scenario where an individual owner might wish to expand his compliment of Cabs but that scenario is limited because it very rarely applies in Authorities that have deregulated numbers.
I can't see the point of spending large amounts of money on state of the art equipment when perhaps there are cheaper options available that do the job adequately. State of the art equipment is not going to gain you more customers although some might say it will, one thing it will most certainly do is put a larger hole in your already very deep pockets.
There could be room for expansion and opportunities in the Taxibus trade, however most so called Taxibus services are subsidised, it would be interesting to see how they cope without a subsidy.
JD