Taxi Driver Online

Ahhh well we use that here too, happy days

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Oh no, but they are guaranteed the right to pay some operator loads of money trying.

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IDFIMH

They tried that round here about 15 years ago, a Taxi company set up a shell company called Connections Travel, they were employing drivers and getting money from the Government for employing them, 9 months later they went bankrupt after getting all the money for employing them.

Well according to the list in PH and Taxi monthly there are already 327 hackneys in our district (9 are Wavs apparently not sure where they all are) for a district with a population of just over 100000 thats 1.5 times as many as Peterborough, 9 times as many as Rutland nearly 4 times as many as South Holland and 8 times as many as Melton and at least one local company whose drivers often spend hours at a time waiting for a job have been advertising for drivers ( because they are so busy they need more !) so any such scheme round here would probably get the local council and a couple of the local firms rubbing their hands together with glee £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

Sooner or later there has to be a realisation that market forces don't work in the taxi trade and that cheaper fares through increased competition = lower safety standards and 100+ hours a week for the drivers

How about including checks on immigration status, Tax registration and benefits registration with badge applications

"instructions"?????

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Former taxi driver

Yes 'instructions' on which buttons to press, when to press them, what they do and what numbers = what zone

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!