Taxi Driver Online

opinion's are like assholes..everybody got one....

Thuggery only ever begets thuggery.

Your partner in your antics in Edinburgh is Garry Thomson the man who is so proud of his conviction for assaulting another taxi driver he still boasts about it to this day. And you wonder why people give you abuse - and I don't just mean taxi drivers I mean the majority of the great Edinburgh public.

Another example of Taylors double standards - it's alright for Garry cos he's your mate, but dare anyone else and it's wrong - you're a joke Jimmy

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“Many of the drivers took their private cars out and drove about keeping an eye on what was going on. There were very few taxis on the road.

“We just wanted to make sure there were no young girls left stranded and in a state of distress. That was something we were worried about beforehand. Nobody would have liked to see somebody hurt. But luckily it doesn’t appear there was any more trouble than usual.

What were you going to do if there were stranded young girls in distress? Take them home in your private cars?

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Grandad,

Big man are u jock

Oh, go away you pathetic bore.

Consider yourself ignored.

My first thoughts precisely.

If they had any real thoughts about the public then they would never have considered depriving them of the safe option.

Double standards or what?

btw

The thought of anyone monitoring stranded young girls makes my blood creep. Jeeze, we've just seen what happen to Vicki Hamilton, God rest her soul.

We want our trade associated with this?

tx op a word of advice i know how your feeling right now but posts like the one they are all talking about doesnt help,iv,e been on this site since it started and i was on the old one and what happens is you will get your ip adress banned, this will leave you even more annoyed as you can read what others are saying but cant reply

i went on strike sat night and attended the tesco meeting,i was very impressed with the amount of cabbies who stuck together, a lot weren,t wanting to go on strike (myself included) but they did it at their own cost and gave the dta the biggest support they have ever had,what imressed me even more was the publics response,i worked sun night expecting to make little money and get my head nipped from all passengers about the strike,i was wrong i made more money than usual plus every fare i picked up not only mentioned the strike but said they were behind us,its a pity we didn,t get that support from the 60 scabs who thought earning an extra £100 bucks was more important than their trades wellfare,
i was working last night and there was talk on the ranks of doing a report on all the names on the scab list (amount of drivers on car/hours etc)sending one copy to the inland revenue plus one to the social,
on my way home from tesco i saw a guy driving with his roof sign still on top of the cab,i know that this guy is on benefits and if his name is on that list all will know his little secret,
the though of somebody claiming benefits taking money from our trade then sticking two fingers up at us on the what was one of the biggest taxi related events in dundee by not striking woul;d really make my blood boil,
we should think really carefully about any future strikes as public support will fall ,this is their good mood season chrismas shopping etc we dont want to push our luck,i see the aberdeen court case (right to put on a salloon instead of wav)is on the 20/12/07 if won all the dundee wavs will be looking for salloon plates which in turn will bring in the all wav policy,maybe we should wait untill after the case before any more strikes

wind yer neck in, you and tx_op

when God put teeth in both your mouths, he ruined a perfectly good [edited by admin].

m8 I'm not against what you guys are doing, but there is a handful of Hacks who are just plain stupid, I was verbally abused by two Hacks who are just drivers for an OP, its quite sad that such a small handful can jeopardise what you lads wish to achieve.

PS: its real easy to spoof your IP and hook up with a new handle.

This is breath taking. You're creating an internecine war when its not necessary.

Cabbies like to think of them selves as "businessmen".

Give me one example of a business that withdraws its services to its customers to make a point.

As for those who went on strike despite disagreeing with it. What a bunch of weaklings. How can anyone with modicum of integrity take part in an action they disagreed with. Supposedly to maintain solidarity with an organisation that is only perpetuating a selfish vested interest. You guys have got to get real.

De-restriction brings with it change. If you want the reward of market demand determining the level of supply, and the reward of containing an unfettered competition, then there is a pain barrier to go through. The situation needs time to settle. The DTA, byu asking the council to renege on de-restriction and stop issuing further licences is doing little more than handing the initiative back to the PH competition they're trying to contain. That is just plain stupid.

As I see it from afar, the only professional personal carriers in Dundee are the Private Hire. All they're doing is competing according to the rules while the hack trade is behaving like spoiled children.

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... 642t0.shtm

read the first letter the real fare would have been£6-£7.50


http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... tters.shtm

As I've saaid before, the council won't take this lying down. They will not tolerate any section of the trade to have such a stranglehold on passengers.

Watch out for more late night transport initiatives, perhaps even subsidised by the council.

Watch out for discussion centring around PH picking up at designated points.

All the DTA has done is make a rod for its own back. By picking on the customers the council are duty bound to make sure that it doesn't happen again.

The DTA are fools for not seeing this. Those who supprted them have ensured that by voicing their own vested interest their own situation becomes worse.

I suspect that only the council can win here. The DTA are just giving them the justification to slap the trade down big time.

BTW The DTA has just sent a message to all other councils who will be looking to take similar measures. This daft action has impacted on us all.

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IDFIMH

not from what I have heard

news to me,
a cetain member of dtwa tried to ruin the last strike by spreading rhumors the strike was off,he also spread lies about the dta charman handing in his hack and applying for a wav plate and suporting an all wav policy,all the drivers on the rank i was working were in disgust at this and decided they wouldn,t strike last sat,then one had the idea to phone the chairman of the dta and get the right story then the strike was back on,anyone have a copy of the names of the scabs?somebody took it off the office wall before i seen it,there was a couple of names of drivers who have been found to be claiming benefits,(a cabbie has a relative who works with the social ,with nearly 2000 badge holders thats hardly surprising)but thats been taken too,im looking for a driver but im not just taking anyone