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Minicab drivers appeal to ASDA over parking





A minicab driver has appealed to a supermarket to crack down on irresponsible parking.


Edward Beard, who runs Maurice’s Private Hire with his brother John, says customers at ASDA in Biggleswade regularly park in the store’s taxi bay.

The brothers and other "taxi" drivers in the town have complained to security staff at the supermarket who are happy to move offending drivers on.

But after customers continued to park in the bay the two wrote to a store manager and spoke to him in person.

But Edward, 60, claims nothing has been done.

He said: “We wrote to the manager but we have not received a reply.

“Then one day when there were regular cars in the bay I went in to see a manager and he did not seem very interested at all. He said the area was marked out for taxis but if customers were parking there then there was nothing he could do.”

Edward, who has been a "taxi" driver for 30 years, says that the issue has caused problems for him and his customers too.

He said: “Many of them are elderly or disabled so they need to be dropped off and collected at the entrance to the store – there isn’t anywhere else for us to park.

“Everyone knows that parking at ASDA is an issue in the town and has caused its fair share of problems over time. We have to have somewhere to wait.”

An ASDA spokesman said: “The pick -up point at the front of the store is for both customers and "taxi" drivers, and we would remind people not to use this space for parking.”

The spokesman added that the pick-up point is available for people to use when they are staying for a short time to collect a member of staff who may be finishing work or a customer who has been shopping at the store.

http://www.biggleswadetoday.co.uk/news/ ... -1-5845122

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Fella is a complete numskull.

He has outlined a perfect way of getting his firm binned from the site.

Ways and means fella, ways and means.

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IDFIMH

As he is PH he can do one, they have no right unless they are hack, or on call to pick up only

It isn't a rank so he can wait there for his customer.

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Grandad,

No parking signs on private property are meaningless anyway. There's enough articles about this on Pepipoo, especially when it comes to the fake invoice masquerading as "parking charge notices" issued by private parking companies in supermarket car parks.

ASDA have recently suffered some notable "loses" in various courts over parking charges, which is probably why they're reluctant to get involved any more in parking matters.

But it says 'taxi' bay and he aint a taxi.

It's on private land.

The thing is he or his colleagues will be there only minutes whilst picking punters up.

If his issue is that he can't 'rank' then he is a bigger fool than at first thought for bringing this non story to the press.

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IDFIMH

He isn't saying it's a rank and that he can't park and wait there

He's saying there's a bay at the front of the store reserved for HC/PH to pick up and drop off customers (the sign may say 'taxi' but they're not going to write 'taxis,cabs,hackney and private hire vehicles are they) and that often there is a member of the public parked in the bay whilst they do their shopping, cos their too lazy to walk an extra 20 yards from the car park.

We have the same at our supermarkets, and likewise there's always a non-taxi parked unattended in the 'taxi' bay. It's when they come out whilst you've got the boot open loading shopping and ask you to move because your blocking them in.... ...... .......

It says India on the tyres but he ain't going there...

But is that such a massive issue he has to go to the press and mega p*** off the store management?

Yes it can be a pain, but in the grand scale of all things taxi/PH, it's f*** all.

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IDFIMH