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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:00 am 
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fairway wrote:
Mr Millward drives an E7........ THAT'S what he spends his £12k a year on, repairs for his van.


Bloody hell!!!! going on those figures he could buy a new 1 every 2 years instead. :shock:


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Darren63 wrote:
fairway wrote:
Mr Millward drives an E7........ THAT'S what he spends his £12k a year on, repairs for his van.


Bloody hell!!!! going on those figures he could buy a new 1 every 2 years instead. :shock:


I think he does, but he does not work Liverpool, so I believe eusasmiles.zip

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MR T wrote:
He said: "It costs around pounds 1,000 a month to run a taxi". Liverpool specifies the type of cab drivers must have. They cost from pounds 29,995 but can be as much as pounds 35,000.

"Add insurance at pounds 200-pounds 300 a month plus finance payments" and it is an expensive business.


What you are actually referring to is a statement that the echo says he made, having had personal experience with reporters in the past, I have found that they will write the piece the way it most suits them, I do not believe for one minute he made that statement, and I am quite sure he was referring to, the cost of the vehicle, the insurance, licensing and road tax fees, repairs, and radio rental.


Is that your theory?

From what I can see It doesn't matter which way you juggle those words around, they always come out the same. Unless of course your saying the journalist made them up?

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JD wrote:
MR T wrote:
He said: "It costs around pounds 1,000 a month to run a taxi". Liverpool specifies the type of cab drivers must have. They cost from pounds 29,995 but can be as much as pounds 35,000.

"Add insurance at pounds 200-pounds 300 a month plus finance payments" and it is an expensive business.


What you are actually referring to is a statement that the echo says he made, having had personal experience with reporters in the past, I have found that they will write the piece the way it most suits them, I do not believe for one minute he made that statement, and I am quite sure he was referring to, the cost of the vehicle, the insurance, licensing and road tax fees, repairs, and radio rental.


Is that your theory? :wink:

From what I can see It doesn't matter which way you juggle those words around, they always come out the same. Unless of course your saying the journalist made them up? :wink: :oops:

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It is up to yourself what you believe, I just do not believe everything I read in the newspaper, I think the cost of running a vehicle differ from area to area, and I personally know drivers that were paying more than that two years ago. if you wish to believe that he would be stupid enough to present the figures in the way they have been presented then do so, I personally know the man would not be that stupid, but as for the reporter????? :wink:

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MR T wrote:
It is up to yourself what you believe, I just do not believe everything I read in the newspaper, I think the cost of running a vehicle differ from area to area, and I personally know drivers that were paying more than that two years ago. if you wish to believe that he would be stupid enough to present the figures in the way they have been presented then do so, I personally know the man would not be that stupid, but as for the reporter????? :wink:


As you rightly say you shouldn't believe everything you read in the press and there is every possibility that the journalist concerned may have misrepresented what Mr Millward said. However for those unlike yourself who know Mr Millward they will be looking at these figures and thinking they are way over the top. The figures also paint a dim picture for LTI and some councils because it exposes the high costs associated with the upkeep of a vehicle that is not subject to competition in such areas as Liverpool.

I have some sympathy for people who get misrepresented in the press but Mr Millward's magazine is not immune from that criticism, so perhaps a dose of his own medicine might not go amiss?

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I would think that anything Mr Millward presented in Taxi Talk under his own name would certainly be open for criticism, in fact I think he would expect it,and I am also sure that certain articles would have been written with that purpose in mind, :oops:

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