2 more drivers have given up trying to make a living off the rank today, they were a husband and wife team who both had a Fiat Jubilee, they have left the rank and gone onto a PH radio circuit

It's nice they had the choice of going from the ranks to an office.

Some of us wish we had the reverse choice.

YOU always will as long as you are not dereged.... too meny cabs working the road means empty pockets. Only so many fish in the pond , but if you own a radio company -BINGO !!! more sets rented out. Out of confusion someone always wins. But not YOU .Think how much you will be paying for your radio when the majority of your work comes off it and you have nowhere to go.
love MR T

However if these new hackney licenses are issued to former PH who choose to license themselves as HC as opposed to PH, then surely they will keep hold of their radios and work the ranks when the radio is quiet. (although I admit, when ranks are busy the radio circuit usually is too, human nature is human nature and they will work the streets) but when they do work the streets it will surely follow that it is because there is an unmet demand.

I see the choice as sussex's, to be honest, if his radio circuit put up the rent too much, sussex and all of his merry men will have a opportunity to open their own radio circuit.

What the thread is about is regretable, however as romantic as it is to think of the owner driver out there operating from solely hackney carriage stands, it is a concept that is and was designed before the advent of the telephone. It has no real bearing within the 21st century and only really offers a service to those who are usually already within a town and within walking distance of a taxi rank.

captain cab wrote:

However if these new hackney licenses are issued to former PH who choose to license themselves as HC as opposed to PH, then surely they will keep hold of their radios and work the ranks when the radio is quiet. (although I admit, when ranks are busy the radio circuit usually is too, human nature is human nature and they will work the streets) but when they do work the streets it will surely follow that it is because there is an unmet demand.



HC who work radio circuits work the streets when its busy cause they don't get blanks from the rank. I hear it all the time over the radio "I've been here for 2 mins, no-ones here, I'm on a blank so I'm away to the ranks". Is this really the future of this industry, I don't think so.

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I see the choice as sussex's, to be honest, if his radio circuit put up the rent too much, sussex and all of his merry men will have a opportunity to open their own radio circuit.


But they could do that now, with PH plates and the cost would be significantly less than them all spending thousands on WAVs. Unless there is a limit on the number of PH operators .

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What the thread is about is regretable, however as romantic as it is to think of the owner driver out there operating from solely hackney carriage stands, it is a concept that is and was designed before the advent of the telephone. It has no real bearing within the 21st century and only really offers a service to those who are usually already within a town and within walking distance of a taxi rank.


I agree entirely, fewer HC are therefore required and more PH should be recruited as soon as possible to cope with the work from these new fangled communication devices.

However if these new hackney licenses are issued to former PH who choose to license themselves as HC as opposed to PH, then surely they will keep hold of their radios and work the ranks when the radio is quiet. (although I admit, when ranks are busy the radio circuit usually is too, human nature is human nature and they will work the streets) but when they do work the streets it will surely follow that it is because there is an unmet demand.

I see the choice as sussex's, to be honest, if his radio circuit put up the rent too much, sussex and all of his merry men will have a opportunity to open their own radio circuit.

There is no need for them to purchase anything, as basically when the radio circuit that puts the rent up has no cars, the customer is forced to phone around.

What the thread is about is regretable, however as romantic as it is to think of the owner driver out there operating from solely hackney carriage stands, it is a concept that is and was designed before the advent of the telephone. It has no real bearing within the 21st century and only really offers a service to those who are usually already within a town and within walking distance of a taxi rank.

I await your reply with trepadation

regards

Captain cab

Good common sense and unbiased post. Need I say more.

Best wishes

JD

NO MR T

and if WE were in france it would be NON



Captain cab

Nidge,

its difficult to comment on the people your on about, have they been in the trade long? or have they just started in the trade?

If you could answer these then I'll pass comment.

regards

Captain cab

They both started around September time.