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The local licensing authority applies vehicle conditions for both Hackney Carriage and Private hire vehicles, within the strict definition of what is reasonable. You may find that in those authorities that predominantly licence saloon type vehicles as Hackney carriages the only difference between the two is the illuminated Hire sign and perhaps the colour of the vehicles. However, in most cases in these modern times an authority will not allow a traditional London type Taxi to be licensed as a private hire vehicle but I expect there may be exceptions.

Regards

JD

So you think that if the 24,000 drivers could charge their own fares then no one would have taken advantage of 7/7 to charge higher fares?

I would think not, but in this regard your opinion is probably no more valid than mine.

A couple of questions:

1 Do you now think there's a case for PH fares to be regulated?

2 What did you and your fellow black cab drivers do with the extra profits you made on 7/7?

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Of course, they can't 'ban' rooflights, but who knows, they might have banned quotas by them, so you may be crying tears of joy

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Indeed, a fair compromise.

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IDFIMH

The anal reference was directed at the comment about me being subsidised, its the first I knew about it.

Over regulated with regard to the vehicles? Yes i'll agree, have'nt said otherwise.

Over regulated with the process that turns out the finest Taxi drivers in the land? No, i'll happily keep that process in place.

I would rather keep the career cab men that the fly by night people that make up the minicab trade in London.

Black and White? Keep things simple I say, otherwise I'll start looking for hidden aganda's and conspiracy theorys.

I would rather keep the career cab men that the fly by night people that make up the minicab trade in London. AND SUSSEX...mrT

There would probably been the usual one or two, but not the usual few hundred from the other side.

As always I make reference to the vast majority.

Put it another way, I listen to a lot of radio, and I never heard ANY bad remarks about the Taxi trade.

PH fares to be regulated? Don't have any real views on this.
I suppose anything that prevents them from overcharging is a good thing.
A lot of the big minicab outfits charge more than us already since licensing was imposed on them.

As for where any money made that day went, well I guess since we charged no more than what we usualy do, and London was empty by 8 'o' clock the drivers would do what they usualy do with their wages.

Probably the same as the Bus drivers did that day, and the Police, and the bakers, and the candlestick makers. . . . . . . .

If your, to use your favorite word, aluding to the fact that we all made huge sums of cash that day, then yours truly took home no more than I usualy do thanks to a very early imposed finish

My original point was that some minicab firms were GROSSLY overcharging customers, now thats wrong, not going about your job which you do every day.

If it makes you feel better i've donated to the bombing appeal, as no doubt has many other London Taxi drivers.

Perhaps you would like to contribute Dusty?

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/london-b ... f-fund.jsp

What Sussex works in the London Minicab trade?

I'll give you some lessons on how to chant 'Taxhee Taxhee' whilst flashing your headlights and sounding your horn.

Or ask Ollie the clown.

I expect you would cos without them you wouldn't earn a penny.

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I wish someone would subsidise my cab. As for the buses most are now 'Private companys'. Do they get subsidised?

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Make trafic wardens redundant. PARK LEGALLY.
Congestion charge! Before it was free.

You bet they get subsidised. They are subsidised in almost everything they do. No VAT, Fuel Duty rebate, and subsidies from the Local Authorities, County Authorities, Rural Bus Grant, in fact all sorts of bus grants, and as if that were not enough, it is about one fifth of the price of a Hackney, to licence a 73 seater. And you dont have CRBs every year, or medicals every year, until you are 45.

Plus you get Bus Lanes to help you get through.

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There is Significant Unmet Demand for my Opinion.

Yes, I'm all for encouraging the former and discouraging the latter, but the historical problem is that London has played host to the totally unregulated minicab sector as compared to the arguabley over-regulated black cab trade.

It's one extreme to the other, and of course the black cab trade were instrumental in minicabs staying unregulated.

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So is it one or two, or could it even be three

If you're saying you always just refer to the vast majority, then surely if only a few hundred minicab drivers upped their prices, then the vast majority didn't, as with the black cab side?



My point was that if the taxi fares had been unregulated then some would have upped the prices, but fares are regulated, so what you heard on the radio hardly disproves my point.



I think the dominant view in the taxi trade is that if fares were regulated then this would further legitimse them and/or blur the line with taxis.



Well the tenor of your remarks at the time was that you had a more lucrative day than usual, which doesn't require higher fares, as you well know

My point was essentially that you to an extent you took advantage of the situation and made more money than usual, a la the minicabs.

Even if you didn't make more, you're not trying to say that all but one or two taxi drivers would have given their extra earnings to charity, say, if you had made more?




Well it's obviously not your favourite word, since there's two Ls in allude But I wonder if I use that word any more than you say 'taxee taxee'?

But if you got the night off for the same dosh, then you did gain some advantage?



Well done.

Yes, I agree with your sentiments about minicabs taking advantage, but my point was that it's surely not as black and white as you say, it's a question of degree.

By the same token, if London drivers are the finest in the land, do you mean all of them, or just the average London taxi driver. I mean, is every London driver 'finer' than every other taxi driver in the UK?

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Ah! Heres that empty room again.


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Your interpretation of the facts always amazes me.

No matter what I, or indeed others write, you manage to twist it round to exactly what you want to see opposed to what the truth is with inuendo's, theorys and opinions and your interpretation of the facts.

Lucky I actualy did the work in the place concerned, on the date concerned.

You are aware Alistair Campbell has departed and the vacancy still exists?


Taxee taxee, etc.