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What a great idea Artur. My grandson has informed me that you could screenshot the page showing the drivers details and if a member or driver with your Radio Company, Adios. Get all your friends and family to downloading the app and book and cancel and let's see who's using it. Excellent Artur.

That's a great idea go ahead Something tells me you are not thinking this through...

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They won't but you'll still be on here spouting your negative bile. The Getaxi sign up day was a disaster. You're worried, its now a slow burn not a wipeout. You're stuck on a loop.

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Skull I would like to ask you a question and would like you to answer it honestly!

What finally pushed you over the edge with the taxi trade?

You can't honestly believe that Edinburgh is going to get a free pass? These multi-national corporations could buy Edinburgh. It's silly to think you are even in the game.

I've given you 3-5 years and it's game over for City and CRT. However, it's taken only five years for GET TAXI and UBER to get this far and that's scary. I would be surprise me if it took two years. It really comes down to how much money they wish to throw at the problem.

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Honestly, I couldn't take it any-more. The hours, the people, the council, the committees, the stupidity, you name it. I felt like a rat on a fu*king wheel. I wanted out with no way back. To me driving a taxi was not living, it was surviving, like a rat in a rat race.

Oh and I am being honest, six months to a year after getting out, I used to wake-up having nightmares that I was still driving a taxi. Scary!!

I think if you are ignorant and one of the the sheeple and you don't really know any better then it's the job for you. Oh and I can see why these committees rip the pi** out of their members but for me, it was like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Kaizer, that's the truth....

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Serious questions for Artur and Molsy and Kaiser and Reggie et al.

What for you is the problem with the Taxi trade using apps for work?

What does your radio company give you that apps can't?

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Hypothetically if apps were to make radios obsolete what kind of app would you work with.

Is there a similar marketplace anywhere like Edinburgh where nearly 900 Black Cabs are members of Two co-operatives, with a market share between them of around 70%? That's a significant share of the market in my book.

If so where and has Get Taxi and Uber managed to wipe that significance out?

I can't find a City in the UK with a similar market place like Edinburgh, I'm up for being proved wrong and the questions are open to anyone.

I say Edinburgh is new ground for Get Taxi and Uber, I don't think they will last, Uber will fail on the regulation of the cab trade and Get Taxi will fail to become as reliable as the Two main players, being co-operatives will ensure this, Members are shareholders unlike circuits such as ComCabs, ECPH and many companies throughout the UK. We, nearly 900 members will roll our sleeves up and be up for the battle, where there's the will there will always be a Way.

Again prove me wrong, with Facts of course

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

They see the Company and the little badge as a form of identity because without it, they don't have any identity of their own.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

We have our own App

Best of both worlds is my answer, simples

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And there you go Cabhappy, if you needed any proof?

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That's good enough for me Skull.

C'mon Reggie you can do better.

Your app is not yours it is of the shelf and rented to you for use.

If we accept the point that Edinburgh is unique with two powerful co-ops to prevent drivers using apps.

But just for talking sake if all the other towns and cities in uk buckle and hence no longer a market for the app except in Edinburgh. The big fish in the small pond will not be sufficient to sustain and develop it.

Edinburgh isn't even the biggest city in the nation state it serves as Capital. In today's ever decreasing world it is no more than a big toon on the edge of civilisation.

You need an app in our hypothetical world ! So blank canvas what do you look for in your ideal of app?

Cab Happy seriously, an App is an App, the one we use is sufficent, easy to use just like any other, easy to sign up to, not like any other, Cmon unless you know of a magic App that's uniquely different

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The answer is obvious the City cab job as you pay for it up front, however there is the other situation which is a conflict of interest. It is pouring down with rain and a wee old woman puts her hand out as you are offered a job on your City cab system....what do you do ??????

Rules and regulation are a part of life, but to pay 7k to abide by that system with no return guaranteed will always be a risk. Looking at it from the outside I would say the street is winning so far and without it we would be struggling.
As for the Edinburgh taxi companies competing against the app company I think all will be revealed very soon, where the money is the drivers will go. [/c