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I did the grave yard shift, 15.00 yesterday till 03.15 this morning, its the best time for me to get on without too many disturbances. I ended up doing other stuff for the first 3 hours, then i managed to get about a third of our street search database abbreviations done. it's going to be a long old job!

I looked into buying IVR last year, i thought it was good but a bit expensive so i didn't bother, our LO would have definitely had a problem with it but I'm on good terms with them so may have been able to work something out. I will probably end up buying it when the price comes down so I'm just going to wait and see what happens.

Nothing much to report at the moment, I'm still working the grave yard shift building data bases, the system arrived with a full postcode database for a 50 mile radius of the city, that's a lot of data! I need to get Auriga to strip some of the c**p out of it, i think a 25 mile radius will be plenty even though it is very rural in these parts. I've now managed to complete
the first phase of editing the data slightly ahead of time, last night i started editing all of the flats, houses, views and courts, this is the brain numbing part that I'm not enjoying one bit!

We currently use zonal fares but we will be changing to mileage based fares when we go live in a couple of weeks time, this is the part that i am looking forward to getting set up as we have never before calculated our fares this way. Before i can do this we need to get Auriga to upload our different vehicle preferences as this is how the system calculates fares, we have approx 8 different vehicle types to set up. I'm hoping to complete all of this by the middle of next week which will be about 4 days ahead of the schedule that i have set for myself, this will then allow me an extra few days to get all the nitty gritty stuff sorted out.

I'm sorry if you guys find this stuff boring but just writing it all down somewhere helps me to figure everything out, I've still got a lot of work to do and it has to be done in a specific order and time frame, as the go live date gets closer I'm starting to get a little more excited!

So will you be celebrating when it's done

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Does the Auriga system automatically double the fare for wheelchair users?

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Former taxi driver

Why would it

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Because some PH companies that operate WAV's in Lincoln charge wheelchair users double fare for the privelege of using their service.

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Former taxi driver

Is that legal? Surely not

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I can charge no more than the metered fare from pick up, to drop off.

PH can think of a number, and then, (for wheelchair users) double it.

What's your view, "taxi" boss?

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Former taxi driver

As churchill the dog would say "Oooohhhh YES" i am planning to have a nice break in May about 6 weeks after go live.

It will do whatever we tell it to do, we don't charge double for wheelchair users, never have, never will!

Some companies do you are right, as long as a scale of fares is given to your LO, Ph companies can charge what they like, i choose not to charge any extra at all for wav vehicles.

So who are you?

I must be having a Toots moment because I can't figure out who you think you are.

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Former taxi driver

I'm me obviously One of the other taxi bosses cant read/write very well so im definately not him the other big fleet owner is far too bent to write anything down as it could be incriminating, he's done enough bird already, so that just leaves me......honest Joe

I know PH can set their own tariff but surely they can't legally charge more just because you're in a wheelchair

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