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003999 WINNER.....£24.80 Per Day SYSTON AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE Highest bid £215.10



http://www.leics.gov.uk/tenderresults-134.htm

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

sorry wannabe you'll have to fill us in on the background e.g. what the contract was for etc. etc.

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

KCC just awarded a grant of £290,000 to Thanet area CT schemes...good job Thanet cars don't have an upper age limit.

dunno, grandad might know but what job could possibly vary from £24 to £215 a day?

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Judging by prices round here, that could vary from 1/3 of an airport run to 3 airport runs! 1/3 airport run (Gatwick) being 54.5 miles, 3 airport runs being 492 miles! (44p a mile, just making a loss of 1p a mile according to the HMRC figures)

Luckily I get over £1 a mile for all mileage on school runs!

Mind you, some school bus contracts vary by huge amounts depending whether it's costed with a new bus or a 20 year old double decker!

One Tendered for by an Idiot and one Tendered for by a greedy beggar!

Some ershole from the local Volunteer driver group (Non Charity status) has been mailing all the houses around here desperately looking for Volunteer Drivers paying them 45 Per mile, the Group itself charges each passenger 30p a mile, so if they had four Passengers on board they would be getting a total of £1.20 per mile, 8 clients £2.40 PM, 16 clients £4.80 per mile..way over a the odds....!!!

What a bloody Scam that is, I charge 30% less than that as Professional PH driver.

It's about time Governments and LA's seen the so Called Volunteer Groups for what they really are..Greedy Money Makers who take big Salaries as Group managers. they make this money off paying 45 pence per mile to it's Volunteer drivers, that Means that the Volunteer fat cats do not even pay anything like a Minimum wage.

Fechin rogues one and all......

It was Queniborough to Oadby. On our metered rate it would be £15.50 each way.

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Grandad,

so CT wasnt THAT much cheaper despite being subsidised

gotta love the £215 bid tho....


CT would be a bus though? are they just adding to a run......

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CT run cars around here. as well as minibuses. It is most unlikely that the job could have been added to another run.
By the way, the job is only on a Friday.

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Grandad,

one of the other drivers i know had a contract for 3 years straight, the boy he took was a handicapped so he liked to have the same driver and escort, but last year the contract was given to a polish barsteward cause he bidded 50 pence cheaper!! but the little boy's dad was one of the senior management folk at North Lanarkshire HQ and the driver complained and managed to get the contract back at the same rate, but in 2016 the council are going to try and get rid of taxi drivers and other contractors doing the school runs and get the parents to do it for so much a mile, but the main reason they need contractors is because parents are at work so it really defeats the purpose and there have been talks of canceling it already.

Means testing and mandatory contribution towards taxi travel should be a must, i see abuses of taxpayer money on a regular basis

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most