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noticed on saturday night lots more people before jumping in a cab asking down the rank "anyone going my area"

one job i did was a young girl asked two people if you want to share cab

the two blokes got out at £4.20, one bloke paid me with a fiver and said £4.20 for this short ride, I'm in the wrong job he said, i gave him his change and said what do you do then as a job, he said estate agent, he said it looks like you taxi drivers have a licence to print money

i said thats quite right, we have a licence, the same as you have to print your own money, but your on a larger scale

so on with the job to get the girl home, she paid up a fiver to complete the journey

the question was raised today on the ranks, re this taxi sharing

who is the hirer, the one who decides who they are taking with them in the cab or are they all the hirer

payment
should the payment be made by each person to the people who are still in the cab

should part payments be paid to the taxi driver then he has to start doing maths all along the journey

some of us hate this taxi sharing, as last passenger gets out, that will be 40p please, so that last person has got home for 40p

any thoughts about this, you take three unknown to each other people in a cab and along the line someone is making [saving money] when in theory thats 3 taxi hire jobs

Yes, I've had situations like there where the last person in actually makes a profit on the run, and I've just had the basic fare and no tip, when I'm sure the excess was intended to go to me.

Doesn't happen very often thankfully.

Or sometimes the first out give the last person way below what they should give and the last person is lumbered with paying far too much.

I try to take an ad hoc approach and if I think one is taking the pi$$ out of the others then I'll intervene and suggest a more equitable arrangement

On the other hand, I prefer it if they sort it out amongst themsleves, because I don't want four people each giving me a tenner for £1.50 each.

Unless, of course, they all tell me to keep the change, but that's never happened

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AS long as I get paid I don't give a [edited by admin] what arrangements the passengers make between them.

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I would insist the folks gave me the money and let me decide what I do with it. And if they don't like it then just clear the meter and start afresh each time.

We are not charities chaps.

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IDFIMH

is this legal to do so, i see some drivers are now saying enough of this and restarting the meter

as far as i can see the only one who is suppose to make [earn] money is the driver, in some cases some passengers have made a good profit, wheel and deal without the others noticing or doing anything for it.

ome driver picked up two people, instucted to go to an address to which he did, he stopped the meter and got paid, then switched the meter off

a few mins later one of the passengers is still sitting in the cab, they ask to go to another adress of quite a distance, the driver switched his meter on

the passenger said what are you doing, I'm from Trading Standards, you can't do that, driver had to come to some agreement to keep the peace and knocked the first high mile off

We've had taxi share schemes in London for many years, Paddington, Royal Garden Party, Wimbledon, all very successful, and all very lucrative.

In my view each person is a seperate fare and a seperate hiring.

You are just being kind by allowing the others to keep warm.

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IDFIMH

Sounds legally and ethically dodgy IMHO

Suppose you took two of them five miles, first out paid a tenner, you reset the meter and the second goes half mile up the road and he's charged £2.50 or whatever?

So the farthest is charged a fraction of what the other is charged?

I generally treat sharers the same whether they're strangers or friends.

Legally I can't really see the difference.

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When I get shared fares, normally friends going all over, I just keep the meter running and when the first asks how much I tell them to give a donation to the last person getting out, and most of the time you here them say we can sort it out later to each other

Me to,if they pay me to the first destination the meter starts again if it's a "can i share job".

I ask who is getting out last and tell them to sort it out with the others.
So long as i get paid whats on my meter, its not my problem. If they ask
how much I give them a "guesstimate" and tell them it depends whats on the meter at the end.

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