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tx_op
 Post subject: Carry on Dundee
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:48 pm 
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Found this in last night's local paper under " Services Offered !

£5 Taxi..Any single trip within the City of Dundee, including Broughty Ferry and Invergowrie £5 Monday to Thursday 9 a.m to 6 p.m
Call Gaffney Private Hire on 07745 745827.

It's no wonder i take a drink or 12, having to put up with a corrupt Council that has allowed illegal activities in the PH Sector for over two years now...and here's the result...Another wannabeahack that thinks he's Elliot Ness !!! ](*,)

Anyone fancy a drink.... #-o
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bloodnock
 Post subject: Re: Carry on Dundee
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:50 pm 
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tx_op wrote:
Found this in last night's local paper under " Services Offered !

£5 Taxi..Any single trip within the City of Dundee, including Broughty Ferry and Invergowrie £5 Monday to Thursday 9 a.m to 6 p.m
Call Gaffney Private Hire on 07745 745827.

It's no wonder i take a drink or 12, having to put up with a corrupt Council that has allowed illegal activities in the PH Sector for over two years now...and here's the result...Another wannabeahack that thinks he's Elliot Ness !!! ](*,)

Anyone fancy a drink.... #-o


Is Dundee a Village?
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Jinky
 Post subject: Re: Carry on Dundee
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:05 pm 
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tx_op wrote:
Found this in last night's local paper under " Services Offered !

£5 Taxi..Any single trip within the City of Dundee, including Broughty Ferry and Invergowrie £5 Monday to Thursday 9 a.m to 6 p.m
Call Gaffney Private Hire on 07745 745827.

It's no wonder i take a drink or 12, having to put up with a corrupt Council that has allowed illegal activities in the PH Sector for over two years now...and here's the result...Another wannabeahack that thinks he's Elliot Ness !!! ](*,)

Anyone fancy a drink.... #-o


TX

I am not from Dundee but say you were in Kingsway West for example and you wanted to go to Broughty Ferry, how far is that 15 miles maybe, how much traffic would you encounter on that route? The guy is a desperado,, believe me that will not last, it will cost him too much in time and fuel to make anything decent as guys will be using him for all longer journeys within his remit...

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: Carry on Dundee
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:09 pm 
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tx_op wrote:
Found this in last night's local paper under " Services Offered !

£5 Taxi..Any single trip within the City of Dundee, including Broughty Ferry and Invergowrie £5 Monday to Thursday 9 a.m to 6 p.m
Call Gaffney Private Hire on 07745 745827.

It's no wonder i take a drink or 12, having to put up with a corrupt Council that has allowed illegal activities in the PH Sector for over two years now...and here's the result...Another wannabeahack that thinks he's Elliot Ness !!! ](*,)

Anyone fancy a drink.... #-o


excuse me, you wont find me bidding cheap mate...

BTW, its his business, let him find out the hard way, his 6pm-9am punters may make up the difference
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Sussex
 Post subject: Re: Carry on Dundee
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:24 pm 
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tx_op wrote:
Anyone fancy a drink.... #-o

I would be delighted to have a drink with you, however it's a bloody long way to go for a pint of coke. :shock:

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Stationtone
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Tx you could take sussex to the rondy so he could meet some of Dundee's finest :lol:.Up here they call tx the exorcist because he makes spirits vanish :lol: .
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tx_op
 Post subject: Re: Carry on Dundee
PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:14 am 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
tx_op wrote:
Found this in last night's local paper under " Services Offered !

£5 Taxi..Any single trip within the City of Dundee, including Broughty Ferry and Invergowrie £5 Monday to Thursday 9 a.m to 6 p.m
Call Gaffney Private Hire on 07745 745827.

It's no wonder i take a drink or 12, having to put up with a corrupt Council that has allowed illegal activities in the PH Sector for over two years now...and here's the result...Another wannabeahack that thinks he's Elliot Ness !!! ](*,)

Anyone fancy a drink.... #-o


excuse me, you wont find me bidding cheap mate...

BTW, its his business, let him find out the hard way, his 6pm-9am punters may make up the difference


That was not a personal comment regarding yourself Wannabee
i was simply coining a phrase....
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tx_op
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My point is simply this....
If that is not the most blatant case of touting...
what is ???
How can a sole PH advertise as a Taxi ???
Why buy a Hack if DCC condone this ???
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wannabeeahack
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tx_op wrote:
My point is simply this....
If that is not the most blatant case of touting...
what is ???
How can a sole PH advertise as a Taxi ???
Why buy a Hack if DCC condone this ???


where does the advert appear?

our regs state:-

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9.5. The words ‘taxi’ ‘taxis’, ‘cab’ or any words so closely resembling those words as to likely be mistaken for them are not to be displayed on or about any Private Hire vehicle and including on any sign or notice displayed on the vehicle or on any stationary or business cards.
9.6. No other material may be displayed on the outside of the vehicle without the written authorisation of the Council.


it doesnt exclude adverts in papers, online, websites, etc...
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tx_op
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:12 pm 
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CGSA 1982

Section 21

Offences..

(b) picks up passengers in, or permits passengers to be picked up by, a private hire car
within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver
requires to be but is not licensed,
that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
level 4 on the standard scale.

The defining word here is..Interpretation !!

No PH can operate as a Hack.
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Stationtone
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Tx your spot on but you know the support services don't know there erse from there elbow.
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grandad
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Maybe it is a deliberate ploy.
When people ring up for the £5 taxi they get told sorry we don't have a taxi available be we can send you a private hire car and the cost is............................ :wink:

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gusmac
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tx_op wrote:
CGSA 1982

Section 21

Offences..

(b) picks up passengers in, or permits passengers to be picked up by, a private hire car
within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver
requires to be but is not licensed,
that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
level 4 on the standard scale.

The defining word here is..Interpretation !!

No PH can operate as a Hack.


Perhaps I'm missing your point but I see nothing in 21(b) which is being broken here. Anyone answering this ad will be prebooking their cut price trip.
Unless Mr Gaffney's private hire car or it's driver is not licensed by DCC?

BTW I think Mr Gaffney will be running around like a blue arsed fly for very little gain.

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tx_op
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How can a sole trading PH vehicle operate as a taxi ??
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wannabeeahack
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tx_op wrote:
How can a sole trading PH vehicle operate as a taxi ??



how many ring a PH to request a taxi and get told to naff off?

none

just as if i ring a hack base and request a car i still get picked up


is this guy TOUTING?......open to interpretation
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