I wonder how their drivers are paid
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:42 am ] |
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France: Cheap minicab firm fined A FIRM that wants to bring cheap minicabs to France has been fined €5,000 after competitors took legal action over “unfair competition”. Avignon-based Easy Take were found guilty of picking up passengers from the roadside, according to a spokeswoman, Elsa Rotureau. However she said they denied doing so and planned to appeal. The Vaucluse taxi union, which took action against Easy Take, had, however, asked the Nîmes appeal court to close down Easy Take, which it refused to do. In another skirmish with the taxi drivers the firm recently found its “tourism car with driver” licence (for carrying single passengers) temporarily suspended by the French tourist board. It had proposed continuing with a Transport Ministry one for multiple passengers, but the other has now been restored. Easy Take charges €7 for up to 7km, €15 for up to 15km, €25 for up to 25km and €35 for up to 50km. These apply at any time of day and are half as much or less than what French taxis typically charge. The low prices are made possible partly by the use of advertising on the car and advertising DVDs on a screen inside. Ms Rotureau said what they do is no different from many other minicab firms but the taxi drivers “frown on us because we offer a service at a very attractive price”. In fact most of their customers are people like students and the elderly who do not use taxis normally due to the cost, so they are not direct competitors, she claimed. Easy Take has plans to expand source: http://www.connexionfrance.com/cheap-mi ... ticle.html |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cheap minicab firm fined |
I wonder how their drivers are paid
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:33 am ] |
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toots wrote: I wonder how their drivers are paid Merde style... |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:08 am ] |
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bloodnock wrote: toots wrote: I wonder how their drivers are paid Merde style... Pmsl...... don't you just love it when the censor doesn't work 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cheap minicab firm fined |
might as well have Quote: However she said they denied doing so and planned to appeal. The Vaucluse taxi union, which took action against Easy Take, had, however, asked the Nîmes appeal court to close down Easy Take, which it refused to do.
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cheap minicab firm fined |
I wonder if they have read my web site  Thats the most stupid ruling i have ever read, I thought the EU was all for competition
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| Author: | edders23 [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:27 pm ] |
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skippy41 wrote: I wonder if they have read my web site Thats the most stupid ruling i have ever read, I thought the EU was all for competitionOnly in the uk Elsewhere it is conveniently ignored which is why British pig farmers have to comply to EU standards whilst producers elsewhere in the UK can get away with it and undercut ! This is why UK fishermen are being driven out of business whilst Spanish and French boats can overfish their quotas and of course here in the UK we have to endure excessive and uneconomic price competition whilst in most of the EU cabbies are protected from it all so that UK consumers can get the "cheapest prices" |
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| Author: | roythebus [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cheap minicab firm fined |
Why is it then we have to put up with unfair competition from voluntary hospital cars, section 19 voluntary minibuses, and voluntary bus drivers who don't need a pcv licence or a driver CPC? We are the ONLY country in the EU to put up with THAT!! |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:22 pm ] |
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roythebus wrote: Why is it then we have to put up with unfair competition from voluntary hospital cars, section 19 voluntary minibuses, and voluntary bus drivers who don't need a pcv licence or a driver CPC? We are the ONLY country in the EU to put up with THAT!! Give them time, they'll find a way to blame those bloody Europeans for that too. 
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:33 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: Give them time, they'll find a way to blame those bloody Europeans for that too.
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:21 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: roythebus wrote: Why is it then we have to put up with unfair competition from voluntary hospital cars, section 19 voluntary minibuses, and voluntary bus drivers who don't need a pcv licence or a driver CPC? We are the ONLY country in the EU to put up with THAT!! Give them time, they'll find a way to blame those bloody Europeans for that too. It always is the EU to blame, that shower of Cretins that run the EU will be the ruination of all of us. Mark my words..in Ten years time you'll look back and think, Geeze, old Bloodnock was right all along, I wish I had never doubted his astonishingly astute foresightedness !!!
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| Author: | gusmac [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:25 pm ] |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:55 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: Aye...and they'll bloody well ban Pig flying on Health, Safety and Environmental grounds...just you wait, you'll see, no more flying pigs..blood was right 
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| Author: | o-marek [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cheap minicab firm fined |
I don't know if it's very helpful but here is a link to conversation with my German mates about fares in the Europe. very interesting is EE compared to cost of fuel: http://www.taxiforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8779 |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cheap minicab firm fined |
o-marek wrote: I don't know if it's very helpful but here is a link to conversation with my German mates about fares in the Europe. very intetesting is EE compared to cost of fuel: http://www.taxiforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8779 How confusing even translated
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