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the above post should have been on a different thread id claim im jetlagged but i travelled on trains and taxis...

dundeechap ive just been searching all your posts and you seem a very angry chappy,the marrs are not in trouble dundee football club is ,the marrs have just written off a 5 million pound dept,after reading the posts ive come to the conclusion you have nobody sharing your view cabbie 85
backed you for a while but now he realises what you really are all about apart from him there is nobody ,one more insult and im ignoring every post you put on this site is only two weeks to the deadline so post legitamtly or dont post at all....

Yes, you have a point with the pubs, it's the same in England as far as I know.

But I think it's supposed to stop over-indulgence, not just to provide one section of the taxi trade with a better living than others, as taxi license quotas seem to do.

I think you're incorrect about window cleaners - it's probably just a charachter check, as with many other trades/professions which involve contact with the public.

Ditto butchers, bakers and candlestick makers etc.

Dusty

Which EU directive?

If anything's in breach of EU law it's the license quotas giving rise to plate values in the first place.

If anyone tried to take legal action on the basis that not allowing license transfers is a restrictive practice then they'd be laughed out of court.

Indeed, that's why no one has taken any action because there's no action to be taken.

Even if the plates were only worth 10k in Dundee, the current collective worth of the plates (or monopoly rent, as Halcrow call it in the OFT report!!) is £10m - surely that would justify taking action, if there was any action to take?

Anyway, isn't this all a bit academic if Dundee has de-limited?

Dusty

PS Thanks to Scot - I'd missed Mr Villager's post!!

Looked like the right thread to me!!

Dusty

Scot , re licences,I was not talking about Dundee but about Angus council
I have tried to get a public house licence for years even went as far as buying premises,had no objections from the public to the premises becoming a pub but still got kicked into touch,one busiuness partner of mine tried to open a rest/takeaway in a shopping precinct got knocked back because there was one a mile and a half away and that another the existing rest/takeaway met public demand even though it sold different cuisine from my friend`s,he`s going for a judicial review on the matter and also the reporter.

well you would insist on moving out of dundee villager,you should have staid put and paid the slightly expensive council tax and you could have had a pub /taxi/resturaunt windowcleaner/buisness within a month,its gone very quiet up here im starting to get suspicious everybody seems very friendly not like the usual bickering whats going on? maybe everybody is to busy to talk that was some weekend ,hope it lasts till next year....

I suspect that the lads up in Dundee are working hard to pay their legal bills.

According to the Scottish Taxi site, the bill was between £25,000 and £30,000 months ago. What it is now, without the other sides costs could be anything.

Alex

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There is a price for having poxy union leadership.

That price is being paid by the Dundee lads, and recently paid by the Wirral and Castlepoint lads.

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Scot, You are right I could have stayed but having been a "GADJIE" most of my life I decided to move to the VILLAGE,better class of "GADJIE" and the spam is cheaper(so is the council tax).By the way you are right it is a bit quiet on the DUNDEE front, I think that the "GADJIES" have accepted that more hacks will be on soon.

BE HAPPY

Is anybody going to put a WAV on or are they just going to talk about it till it is to late.The 28 day's must be past by now

next thursday is the deadline i think, some lucky chap has a police test on the 23rd (wish it was me)most will be on by the second week in jan one or two may have decided not to bother with wavs time will tell, anyone know why 203020 have not submitted applications?maybe they are waiting to see how many are prepared to invest in vehicles the biggest majority of wavs will appear feb right at a quiet time maybe 203020 are playing it safe, i had my head nipped at the weekend from a couple who read the courier report about the dta objecting to the wavs it seems the public think all taxi drivers are behind the dta how wrong can they be?
its a pity the dta didn,t print a list of names of objectors so the public can
see the truth, graham stevens made a wise move saying no comment and passing the buck to their lawyers the dissabled lobby have a lot of sway in anything that includes council liscences plus the press would have had a field day on anyone dta or union for denying the dissabled their basic right to a service that everyone else has...

Have they decided if the doblos are going to be licensed as WAVs?

Alex

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the new wavs are finally appearing in dundee i think the first was friday
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/outpu ... 609t0.shtm