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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:32 pm 
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captain cab wrote:
towag wrote:

Toots is fine, aplologies if I made myself misunderstood.....What I was asking why people see it as a trade that should be as denigrated as it is......I personally don't agree with PH..... Just as PH don't necessarily agree with the Hackney trade, but that's my opinion.... which I believe I am entitled to.....?


Yes towag, you are :wink:

If you look across the country I think you will find certain areas have just as many hoops for PH drivers to jump through as the HC folks.

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Which is a good thing.... but still a long way to go yet before the lowest form of Hackney/PH scum bag hard core are routed from the trade.... maybe another 10 - 20 years? By which time I will be thankfully gone :wink:


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Sussex wrote:
towag wrote:
Just as PH don't necessarily agree with the Hackney trade, but that's my opinion.... which I believe I am entitled to.....?

Your fully entitled to voice your opinion on TDO, but that doesn't make your opinion right.

In vast areas of the country PH work hand in hand with HC, they share the same entry criteria, they often charge the same fares and work on the same circuits.

The PH trade has gone from a rag tag bunch prior to 1976 to a trade that has overtaken the taxi trade in terms of numbers and volumes of punters.

They didn't do this by luck, they did it by adapting to the needs of customers, not, as is the case in much of the taxi trade, treating customers as a hindrance that should be grateful to be taken home.


Then I'll just have to accept that the Hackney trade is going to die because we are all seen as the monsters you describe so will gradually wither away and maybe I will be seen as one of the last of the Hackneyhicans..... :roll: :wink:


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towag wrote:
Then I'll just have to accept that the Hackney trade is going to die

The hackney trade will never die, and I believe it has a great future.

What will die are the dinosaurs that currently think they run the cab trade.

And in my view the sooner the better.

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Sussex wrote:
towag wrote:
Then I'll just have to accept that the Hackney trade is going to die

The hackney trade will never die, and I believe it has a great future.

What will die are the dinosaurs that currently think they run the cab trade.

And in my view the sooner the better.


I like your optimism Sussex, I hope you're right.... Personally, I think that until it becomes a level playing field, it will remain the mess it is in now.... :-| :wink:
As a matter of interest who are these dinosaurs that think they run the cabtrade? :?


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