Taxi Driver Online

so 36,000 ltrs @ £1 a ltr (quick sale) is £36,000

however, why knock a tanker over when Imperial Tobacco ship out of Nottingham (address available for £25) loaded with pallets of fags, I once took 2 small pallets in a van - £13,000 worth

and if i think 40 pallets of fags would be easier to fence than a tanker of derv



anyway, stop moaning about derv, beer is £20 a gallon and mainly water!

Here on the Isle of Wight we have had one fare rise in 11 years

1997 Penultimate Fare Rise
2004 Last Fare Increase +10% across the board

So one fare increase in 11 years of 10%, works out less than 1% increase a year.

Paying around £1.28 a litre, its becoming very hard to make a living due to its seasonal nature and the local council's refusal to enforce fares eg some firms are operating the wrong tariff after midnight and at other times yet the council do nothing about it.

We are supposed to "display" the correct tariffs at all time but some taxi firms steps down one rate to try and get more business over the phone.

Nobody minds discounting fares from the final amount displayed but by deliberately stepping down one rate after midnight for phone bookings creates a bad atmosphere and risks drivers safety.

Customers booking by phone see a lower rate on the meter for phone bookings, use the taxi rank once in a blue moon and then think they are being ripped off when they see the "proper tariff" being displayed. For a drunk person it creates a potential flash point with verbal abuse and accusations of trying to be ripped off.

The council have been told but they choose to ignore it.

Have the local trade applied for an increase?

Lovely place by the way.

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IDFIMH

Thanks. I like living here.

No they have not.

The council canvass opinion of a selection of taxi drivers, not all drivers.
The problem with that if they canvass the ones that feel they can manage and are alright jack, everyone else is stuffed.

The trade association is a bit of a waste of time.

You email the council but they never reply.

You must have a local councillor, ring them up or go and knock on their door.

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IDFIMH

Listened to some mush on the radio yesterday talking about coal.

Apparently they can convert coal to oil at a rate of 60 dollars a barrel, compared to the 135 dollars being paid now.

So let's get the miners back down the holes.

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IDFIMH

I have tried that route.

They give me the brush off by saying that as they Chair the committee that deals with taxi fares, they cannot enter into discussions.

The local council subsidises the local bus company to the tune of £4M a year and they also get back a 20p+ rebate on all diesel. Its just one uphill battle.

You are not asking him sign on the dotted line, all you are asking for is for him to get his officials to set in motion a fare review.

At the end of that you might get nothing, but a review/consultation on a fare rise is the least that councillor can do.

In short you are lobbying him in the same way as everyone else is allowed to lobby. He cannot ignore you, and if he does report him to the 'Standards Commission', or whatever they are called.

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IDFIMH

They are about to start playing porn at the fuel pumps, so as you can watch someone else getting F***ED as well as you

I shall get me coat

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Legal and proud

Loads a love from BERTIE !!

I've heard that joke about three times. It gets funnier every time

Did anyone hear George Galloway, on Friday night, between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Talk Sport 1089?

Dr Vincent Cable MP. of the Liberal Democrats, was on talking about the economic crisis . Dr Cable thought that it might get as bad as the 1930s.

He pointed out that never at any time in our history, have we seen such unprecedented growth, due to their oiling of the economic system through credit.

Scary times ahead, I think?

BTW, Vincent Cable was the man who predicted the credit crunch, at least two years before it even happened.

People were coming on in the droves were with their sob stories.


The end is nigh ....

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

I'm over the moon to be able to report that the Tesco garage at Hatfield has dropped the price of Derv by a whole penny from the weekend.

I'm trying to work out what to spend the saving on.

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IDFIMH

is it me, or is it right?

derv is as much as 15p a ltr MORE than petrol, yet (correct me if im wrong) derv is easier to produce as its just a light oil whereas petrol is a spirit


im sure the price gap has widened, in fact im sure derv used to be cheaper

im not a cynic but has this got worse as more public buy diesel cars for the greater mpg, and almost all company fleets cars are diesels, and also the new breed of diesels do far more to the gallon than in days of old.....


conclusion?

the fuel companies see a big switch from petrol to diesel, and users need less of it, so lets bump the prices up...

£1.44.9 for diesel.