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John, I remember a time when, most taxi drivers thought Ph, would never catch on in Edinburgh. I don't see many holding that view now, except for yourself of course.

ESP is a wonderfull thing Skull, glad you've got it.

Who needs ESP, when it comes to pointing out the obvious?

Your 12 year old vehicle wouldnt be licensed here.

It isn't about sides, its about understanding the concerpt of private hire.......something which the hackney carriage trade don't actually grasp in many places.

A private hire is exactly that.....a private arrangement made by a person when they decide to phone a private hire operator with the purpose of supplying them with a vehicle and driver.

You may jump up and down and say the vehicle in your opinion isn't safe or useful as a PHV.....that will be countered by asking you how VOSA and the regulatory bodies have allowed a vehicle to be used on the road which wasn't safe.....the vehicle is allowed on the road so that would be a pretty pointless argument......it's usefulness as a PHV will be judged by the public who might or might not wish to hire it via the private hire operator.

The 'greenways' argument offered by jasbar is interesting, but in my view if the vehicle is licensed it is unlikely to change your councils opinion.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

When Jim appears in court and admits to being as green as he is cabbage loking,( or driving in the greenways,)or whatever it is, will you be there Skull ? I will !.... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!

That'll be when you plate value increases . . . ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !! ARS*HOLE

CC, i was pointing out that if a vehicle such as mine was an over-priced heap of scrap, it wouldn’t have lasted 12 years. The fact that your LA wouldn’t allow it is neither here nor there, Edinburgh does. I also think you have a selective memory.... Don’t know why tho’.

At 12 years old your vehicle is probably worth less than the smart car?

Edinburgh does allow it for the moment, but the taxi trade in London might tell you (and in York and in Cheltenham), emissions laws are coming eventually.

I think theres a mentality here that if I dont agree with people I'm the enemy? I have opposed vehicles like the smart car and smaller 4 door saloons myself.....a losing argument I might add.

As I said in my previous post, the taxi trade need to regrasp the concept of what private hire actually is.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I've never seen a taxi that wasn't an over-priced heap of scrap. Twelve years old or not, they are buckets. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! ARS*HOLE

And with a suspension system designed in the 1940s.

In a free market it's the customer who decides.

Hacks in Edinburgh don't operate in a free market. But PH are now bringing it to them.

As I said, from having the whole market to themselves, hacks are sleepwalking into a niche market. Fact is, restriction is a red herring.

PH are not reestricting. With every new licence the trade resists, PH add another two, eating hacks market share as it does so. What part of this doesn't the trade understand.

Already customers think taxi, they think PH. To them PH is a taxi.

What's happening is that the taxi trade is becoming relevant only at peak periods and weekends. Rest of the time they're clogging up the social clubs that taxi ranks have become. Drivers rushing to the gossiup points so that they can moan about how bad things have become, recharging their stupidity to come on these forums and doff their cap to the status quo which is rendering them commercially impotent.

Restriction is giving PH the critical mass in the hire car market. And with that comes power. Think about what a mixed PH fleet operating vehicles matched to customers' needs for quality, service and cost effectiveness, using tariffs lower than the hacks, is going to mean to your earnings.

What I'm really telling the bright boys in the trade is - It's already too late.

You have only yourself to blame.

Skull, a “Bairn wae’ a biscuit erse,” could sus you oot’ mate. You’re no’ interested in the, “State o’ the economy,” or how that impacts on people. You are just a bitter twisted person who hopes/ prays, that anyone involved in the, “Taxi Trade,” end up with as little as you have. The thing is, if you could be a wee bit more positive, and stop concerning yersel’ wae’ the Taxi Trade, ( Yer’ long gone mate and will never be allowed to return !), I think you could make a small, very small, worthwhile contribution to society.

And with a suspension system designed in the 1940s.

In a free market it's the customer who decides.

Hacks in Edinburgh don't operate in a free market. But PH are now bringing it to them



Jim, there's an auld saying, "If you choose to sup wae' the Devil, make sure you've got a big spoon "

John, most of what I comment on is little to do with your precious trade. And I am very much interested in the state of the economy and the world, for that matter. Your trade is more of an aside that gives me a bit of a laugh.

The days of the wealthy taxi driver are long gone and never to return. You might think you are some sort of taxi driving Niddrie oligarch but trust me John. You're just a daft wee taxi driver that's terrified of Smart Cars. Oh how I would love to be you John.

Well that's a relief in view of the car's seating capacity

Which doesn't quite address the claim that it's an "overpriced heap of scrap from Coventry".