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skippy41
PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 12:36 pm 
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Simple solution issue no more licences, reduce the number down to the same as the cabs, by natural wastage, there are enough leaving on a monthly basis to let the numbers fall.
once its reached, or continues to fall, only issue licences to those who can speak English, and have done a basic knowledge test, and have been fully vetted, and held a full UK drivers licence for at least 2 years.
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grandad
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Simple solution issue no more licences, reduce the number down to the same as the cabs, by natural wastage, there are enough leaving on a monthly basis to let the numbers fall.
once its reached, or continues to fall, only issue licences to those who can speak English, and have done a basic knowledge test, and have been fully vetted, and held a full UK drivers licence for at least 2 years.

By "simple" you mean illegal. To do as you suggest would require a change in the law and that would never be simple.

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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 7:51 pm 
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London’s largest private hire company has found rare common ground with Uber in opposing plans by mayor Boris Johnson to cap the number of private hire vehicles in the capital. But, unlike the e-hailing app, Addison Lee believes the solution to the proliferation of minicabs is regulation.

What a surprise, clearly 70+ thousand minicabs isn't enough. [-(

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With the advent of forums, facebook, twitter etc, some of these drivers signing up for the '£1000 a week' bollox must be in need of a lobotomy.

It doesn't exactly take a computer whizz kid to find out the reality of driving a Minicab in London and the true earnings you'll earn.

And still they come . . . :roll:
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GBC wrote:
With the advent of forums, facebook, twitter etc, some of these drivers signing up for the '£1000 a week' bollox must be in need of a lobotomy.

It doesn't exactly take a computer whizz kid to find out the reality of driving a Minicab in London and the true earnings you'll earn.

And still they come . . . :roll:


YEP SO THEY DO OUT OF DESPERATION and as this Government gets stuck in that desperation will increase #-o happy times for the desperadoes running the industry #-o

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grandad wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Simple solution issue no more licences, reduce the number down to the same as the cabs, by natural wastage, there are enough leaving on a monthly basis to let the numbers fall.
once its reached, or continues to fall, only issue licences to those who can speak English, and have done a basic knowledge test, and have been fully vetted, and held a full UK drivers licence for at least 2 years.

By "simple" you mean illegal. To do as you suggest would require a change in the law and that would never be simple.


I know they cannot just stop issuing licences without a change in the law, but they can make it extremely hard to obtain one, and that doesn't require a change in laws.
Griffin, and other base operators are more worried about the loss of rentals than anything, due to uber.
There was another story about uber on the BBC web page this morning, about how millions of peoples details have ended up on the dark web, and thousands of runs completed without peoples knowledge or even doing the runs.
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Strangely enough i met a proprietor today of a substantial PH firm who stated "Uber are hitting him hard" this company one of the 1% run fairly is getting really concerned #-o

What info Capt do you have of non London Vehicles working in London via Uber ?


photos on my twitter feed :wink:


WTF is that cant you post em on here comrade :?: :?:

Personally i reckon the GMB and other Unions ought to do a deal with Uber and Bankrupt the Proprietors in London then take Uber on, common sense really DIVIDE AND RULE too simple for the pillocks running the GMBPDB these days or is it connected with their Branch sec being a proprietor who gives work to scabs ie Non Union Drivers rumour has it he employs some as well ..............mind he resigned then did a Farage the other week :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin: allegedly #-o #-o


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UBER at St Pancras - London PHV's don't have plates do they?.

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UBER at St Pancras - London PHV's don't have plates do they?.


cap - I don't think Reading has uber yet, so maybe he was on another job?
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UBER at St Pancras - London PHV's don't have plates do they?.


cap - I don't think Reading has uber yet, so maybe he was on another job?


was posted on twitter

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its a reading private hire - not an uber - no uber in reading as yet.

whilst not supporting uber - that's not an Uber!

maybe someone has made an error?
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187ums wrote:
its a reading private hire - not an uber - no uber in reading as yet.

whilst not supporting uber - that's not an Uber!

maybe someone has made an error?


illegally fitted plate tho :lol:

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captain cab wrote:
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Strangely enough i met a proprietor today of a substantial PH firm who stated "Uber are hitting him hard" this company one of the 1% run fairly is getting really concerned #-o

What info Capt do you have of non London Vehicles working in London via Uber ?


photos on my twitter feed :wink:

Oh yeh it appears your wrong, got any more info :D

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captain cab wrote:
187ums wrote:
its a reading private hire - not an uber - no uber in reading as yet.

whilst not supporting uber - that's not an Uber!

maybe someone has made an error?


illegally fitted plate tho :lol:

Why is it illegal?

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grandad wrote:
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187ums wrote:
its a reading private hire - not an uber - no uber in reading as yet.

whilst not supporting uber - that's not an Uber!

maybe someone has made an error?


illegally fitted plate tho :lol:

Why is it illegal?


doesn't look secure

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Why is it illegal?


doesn't look secure

It looks to me as though it is on one of them plastic Mogo brackets that fit behind the number plate and the camera angle is distorting the perspective a bit.

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