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Hi New Drive here.

I am thinking of joining the trade as a PH Driver in London and have been in touch with Addison Lee.

However I am not too clued up about other operators or firms in the London area.

I would be grateful if you could suggest a London PH firm for me to contact or look up on the web.

Cheers.

Give Private Hire and Courier mag a ring on 020 8399 4679 and ask them to send you a copy. In it it has dozens of firms offering new drivers the earth.

You might also want to go to the PH and Taxi show at Wembley.

http://www.phtm.co.uk/media/1125911631.pdf

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Not the best of the bunch, but maybe worth a go to start with.

Ollie

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Hi
You could try The Keen Group based in Wandsworth. Email:

enquiries@thekeengroup.co.uk

They have a data dispatch system which has satnav built into the data units, so it will give you directions to the jobs once you have received them.

Lots of other nice things

regards
RadioMan

Wow! So what happens when you get to the job? What do you do if the job knows where it's going but not how to get there?

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Hi
I think I can understand your question. Lets try the answer. In London all jobs taken by LPH offices must have a name, telephone number, pickup point and drop off point.

When the job is entered into the system the lat/long of the pick up point is added to the job. When the driver gets the job as well as displaying the pickup information he/she has a choice to select MAP. When this is selected he/she hits "locate me" which enters the drivers current position automatically and from that a route is planned from his/her location to the pickup destination.

Once the driver has picked up then the destination of the job is displayed and the driver can select map and a new route will be planned from the pickup to the destination.

There are other options if people wanted them where the system is setup to show you your location and the location of the job, this seems popular as it means if you know the main areas/streets you can then find the small streets/rds off of the main ones.

Before anyone shouts thier mouths off about knowledge etc, the idea of the navigation system built into the data unit is to help the driver find places that bit quicker and from hackney drivers I have spoken too, it means they would take jobs in areas where they now have directions to the pickup address where in the past they might not take the job becuase they dont know that part of the city or town.

Other good aspects is that for Hackney drivers they can enter the destination address into the unit if they get any street hires.

Anyway, the navigation is only a small part of what the actual unit can do.

I hope that answers your question.

regards
RadioMan

I could thouroughly recommend the offices (well stairwell) of Mr Ali's minicab operation in Cranbourne street W1.

Don't worry about licensing your car or yourself, small matters like that don't concern him.

Don't worry if its quiet, he does'nt mind if you pop round the corner and chant 'taxee taxee' to the passing public, to drum up a bit more buisiness.

Do yourself a favour, and a lifetime favour at that, and do the Knowledge to become a Taxi driver.