Taxi Driver Online

Ring back!

The driver simply presses a button and the customers phone (the one they book the job on) rings and displays "Taxi Outside" on the screen.

It didnt take long to educate our customers to book from the mobile they'd be taking out with them.
And it cuts out waiting time.

Thats the point I was trying to put across to him but he has just used it as another forum for attacking private hire drivers.

regards

Excluding Mini Cabs who seem to be exclusive to London, it must be safer for the customer to use a booked PH rather than a flagged down Hac, it's common sense.
No matter how biased The Gerrn man is

Well Radioman the GreenBadgeBigot's wrath knows no bounds. He will even attack people who sell radios for just mentioning Private Hire.

I had hoped some nice doctor would have changed his medication by now.

He is an excellent representative of his chosen trade. How the hell he managed to get a green badge with the level of bigotry he displays is beyond my understanding.

BTW greenbadge keep off the LPHCA website - its best not to delve into things you dont understand. "Impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery"

Well Radioman the GreenBadgeBigot's wrath knows no bounds. He will even attack people who sell radios for just mentioning Private Hire.

I had hoped some nice doctor would have changed his medication by now.

He is an excellent representative of his chosen trade. How the hell he managed to get a green badge with the level of bigotry he displays is beyond my understanding.

Great when it works, but that's not always.

But would have 'call back' stopped the nasty incident in Glasgow?

When people leave busy places like clubs, unless they know which car has call backed them, then I'm not sure anything changes.

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Well since green badge has lost the plot once again, lets give him another thing to think about, With LTI trying to off load all there wonderful totally crap TX"s how many of them are being used by the low life that is allowed to roam our towns and city's.
Oh Mr sales man how much for 1 of your secondhand cabs, good I will have 1 it will never be under suspicion at weekends could lift any amount of single women and have fun.
So it works both ways green and when a woman who may have had a few sherberts to many get into the wrong car and get raped, all because some idiotic suit say you cannot have proper signage on your car because it may look like a black cab needs shot
Oh another thing who wants to get in a cab in London and go half a mile for a weeks green gauges

You might do well to type slower, and not on a Sunday night after a bottle of wine.

So here we have another expert on the London trade, this time from the metropolitan area of the Scottish Borders.

So i've lost the plot?

Explain in simple sheep terms how i've lost the plot?

Obviously being a frequent visitor to London ( ) you're well aware of the touting tactics used by the London minicab trade, and the license that vehicle signage will give these people.

Why would a tout buy a second hand TX for thousands of pounds when you can buy a second hand car with the minicab discs already attached for under £2K?

Then theres the slight lack of a plate on the rear of the cab or a meter which some of the other 25'000 drivers may just notice?

Being an expert on London from Galashiels (Baaaaaa) I thought you would have known that?

You mention that signage would confuse people between Minicabs and Licensed taxis.

Who said that? No one to my knowledge in the trade has said that apart from your posting above, our reasoning is that like most other things the minicab industry get, it will be abused to the hilt and beyond.

There is ample allowances for people to be told in advance what vehicle and driver is picking them up, they have been doing that for the last 30 years with no problem, why now in 2006 suddenly no one can get in the right car?



Luckily for me, and my bank balance, more people than your manor could ever dream of.

If thats all you can earn in a week, I should give it up and take up sheep shearing.



In fact, thats the only line in your post that utters one iotta of sense.

Until you get a plate.

If the smallest of firms have got 'hundreds' of jobs outsatanding, you'd better try telling the hundreds of minicab drivers I witness daily hanging around their respective offices, looking somewhat bored.

Women, despite what you may think, are not stupid.

They will ask what car is picking them up.

They can see from the cars plates or window stickers if its legit.

They can see from the nice shiney large ID card the driver is required to wear, whether he is licensed by the PCO.

All of the above is without signage.

Signange IN LONDON will increase touting overnight two fold.

Its simple, if people see a licensed vehicle, a 'taxi' (in their eyes) sitting there, they will approach the vehicle and try to get a cheap deal, and the less scrupulous drivers in the minicab industry, of which there are regretabley many thousands, will use it to their full advantage.

Its straightforward really, if you want to pick up of the street, do the 'effing knowledge.

Best make your forum membership compulsary then bellend.

Now that you have found the exit from your rock, crawl back under it like a good minicab driver.

PS, hows your piles in Stanmore nowadays?

Well Green its not hard to make the 2 plates required and the right person could pick up a meter from the right source,run the 1 to 2k secondhand cab on a busy night who would notice strait away.
Yes it has happend in the past
I have been in London by the way, stood outside Lizzy's house for 2 hours at a time and st Jamesy's, and I used to drink in the Miter just along from seven sisters and used to go to the Empire if I was off on a Sunday
And as for worrying sheep there is no chance I haven't got any wellys to stick there back legs in, and the cheapest house you can buy here starts at 120k 1 bed and if you want to go fishing on the Tweed it will cost you 5k a day

Thats easy Blobby one.

And its certainly something you will never have.

Keep working.

Best get out working then instead of going into a temper with me on a forum.

As my heroes in the T&G say, leave local issues and decisions to the local trade. We kinda know the score with what goes on in our city.

regards.

I'm not doubting it has.

But whats this got to do with allowing 30'000 minicab drivers the freedom to park up on a Friday or Saturday night and wait on people approaching them and then trying to bargain a cheaper fare, because people think they are 'Taxi's'.

As the boss of Addison lee said recently, he might loose control of his drivers.

He did, he gave me a new drug that forces me to only speak the truth.

'Your a dickhead'

See? it works.