Sussex wrote:
Didn't Mr Roland in Sept's PHM state that operator don't want a one-tier system. I think his words were 'they didn't want their vehicle doing path work when they had radio work to clear'?
And who's saying the only taxi WAVs licensed will be the £30,000 variety?
My own view is that a one-tier system will never happen, but section 16 will go.
Indeed I think he did, but one voice might not cut it, and so I thought it would be a good idea to collect what others think.
Any approved WAV is a minimum 23k, put the interest on that and then compare it to a 5k saloon, which everyone will be entitled to have should it go one way, anyway the real point to that comment was to show that the cheap route isn't a WAV nor has it ever been tbh and if you can get away with a cat 4 write off current cabbies will do just that.
I hope you are right that it remains two tier, section 16 I've not read up on so I can't comment on that.
@ Grandad
You can do the bus routes now if you wish, I recently proposed a scheme aimed at Indy hacks where the bus stops on the main route through the city you could be flagged and charge £1 per head that gets in up to your licensed limit, it was for only one route and only one way, the object was to allow a bus customer to pay bus fare in a cab but knowing they may have to share with others, and the benefit to the driver is the route led back to the ranks so he could kill dead miles with a token compo, as usual when I proposed it there were those not wanting to participate, I'd rather have every penny and get nothing than potentially get £4 returning to the rank, but hey ho that's another reason I want to hang up by keys because right now I feel like a cat with no claws trying to climb a wall.