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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:40 pm 
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I missed something out, Do you really think the people they went to see have any understanding of taxis ? . :wink:


They think a taxi is a taxi is a taxi, not one is HC also doing pre booked work and PH doing just pre booked work :roll: :roll:

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You could always do away with private hire and only have Hackney's , but then everyone would have to have a radio, total control would be in the hands of the company's, one cannot exist on Friday and Saturday nights only ...

But wouldn't that make it easier for new 'driver owned' firms to start up?

£3 a week taxi-call seems a good way in for such new firms. :wink:



You're naivety is overwhelming at times, it is obviously you have never seen one big firm totally wipe out a small firm... :mrgreen:

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You're naivety is overwhelming at times, it is obviously you have never seen one big firm totally wipe out a small firm... :mrgreen:

In all the delimited areas around me cab drivers there either work without radios, or on small 5-10 car circuits.

So if they can do it, then why can't anyone else? :?

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Sussex , it used to be that way here, just wait till someone decides they want to have a 1000 car radio company, or someone in an area not that far from you finds that they have surplus money to invest..... the big fish eventually eat all the small fish..... specially when they under charge to capture all the work.....

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You could always do away with private hire and only have Hackney's , but then everyone would have to have a radio, total control would be in the hands of the company's, one cannot exist on Friday and Saturday nights only ...



I suspect under such a scenario there would be a similar amount of independent taxis as at present.

And if you look at the PH trade around the country then generally speaking it's hardly a monopolised trade without new start-ups and smaller operators.

I don't think Delta is typical.

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I don't think Delta is typical.


It will be. :wink:

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Sussex , it used to be that way here, just wait till someone decides they want to have a 1000 car radio company, or someone in an area not that far from you finds that they have surplus money to invest..... the big fish eventually eat all the small fish..... specially when they under charge to capture all the work.....

But the only reason you have 1000s of PH is because it so easy to license in your manor and work elsewhere.

Make the entry criteria harder to meet, then things will change. :wink:

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Sussex wrote:
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Sussex , it used to be that way here, just wait till someone decides they want to have a 1000 car radio company, or someone in an area not that far from you finds that they have surplus money to invest..... the big fish eventually eat all the small fish..... specially when they under charge to capture all the work.....

But the only reason you have 1000s of PH is because it so easy to license in your manor and work elsewhere.

Make the entry criteria harder to meet, then things will change. :wink:


So what you are saying is that the Hackney Trade should make the rules for the private hire. :wink:

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Sorces very close to Liverpool T&G, have said that they are 100%confident .That there will be a change in the Law,
governing the practice of private hire drivers by way of the
introduction of a clause which would “Ensure the immediate return
of licensed private hire vehicles to within the district council
boundary of the licensing authority which has granted the vehicle
license, after completion of a hiring”.
They however never mentioned a time scale . So we could see the demise of Delta . And any other Ph company, who do work in another L A. Perhaps Delta should scrap their call center, that’s due to open next year. :?:
Plate owners, can now sleep soundly in there beds. :oops: :oops: streetcars


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Sorces very close to Liverpool T&G, have said that they are 100%confident .That there will be a change in the Law,
governing the practice of private hire drivers by way of the
introduction of a clause which would “Ensure the immediate return
of licensed private hire vehicles to within the district council
boundary of the licensing authority which has granted the vehicle
license, after completion of a hiring”.
They however never mentioned a time scale . So we could see the demise of Delta . And any other Ph company, who do work in another L A. Perhaps Delta should scrap their call center, that’s due to open next year. :?:
Plate owners, can now sleep soundly in there beds. :oops: :oops: streetcars

Sorces very close to Liverpool T&G, did say that they are 100%confident the OFT would not happen

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MR T wrote:
So what you are saying is that the Hackney Trade should make the rules for the private hire. :wink:

No I'm saying your council should, and those rules shouldn't allow firms looking for the lowest standards to find a home in your manor. :wink:

That said, I think the cab trade should have a view as to what happens in the PH trade and visa-versa. :roll:

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Sorces very close to Liverpool T&G, have said that they are 100%confident .That there will be a change in the Law,
governing the practice of private hire drivers by way of the
introduction of a clause which would “Ensure the immediate return
of licensed private hire vehicles to within the district council
boundary of the licensing authority which has granted the vehicle
license, after completion of a hiring”.

It sort of would make sense, but will never happen. Same for the situation with the Berwick taxis.

But the answer to all these tales of woe is very simple, improve standards so that the riff raff don't get in. :wink:

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I think we had the same discusion twelve months ago .
Liverpool T&G returned home in triumpth . After meeting Mr Farmer. Delta were going to be confined to Sefton . and quantity control s were set in stone . The T&G Said go forth and buy your 45 grand plate, its like money in the bank . Or words to that effect . Twelve months latter we have the N C C, no one knowing where they stand . Delta going from strength to strength. Which brings me to the conclusion, don’t believe a word the T&G tell you. :evil: :evil: :evil:

HANG ON A MO . they went on a jaunt last year payed for out of the Licence fees , came back with F A .
This year they do the same .
I have heard ,they all go to Stringfellows on the pull .Stay at a Parklane Hotel and were paying for it . Someones taking the [edited by admin]. :lol: :lol: :lol:


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