Nidge2 wrote:
If you piss up the legs of the competition someone will snap back.
the paper does insist in calling them taxis - the ranks will have been nice and busy for them
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Minicab wars in Normacot? |
Hunt for culprit after Normacot PH firm has phone line cut on New Year's Eve TAXI drivers believe they are being deliberately targeted after their phone line was cut on New Year's Eve – costing them thousands of pounds in lost fares. Ace Private Hire says it missed out on up to 1,000 bookings as it was unable to receive calls for two-and-a-half hours on Monday night. An unknown offender cut a phone cable running outside the firm's base in Normacot Road, Normacot, at 10.30pm. Directors at Ace, which was launched last month, suspect the offence was part of a campaign to drive the company out of business. Five advertising signs belonging to Ace were also smashed a week earlier. Company co-founder Mohammed Amin said: "It was about 10.30pm on New Year's Eve when we stopped receiving calls. At first we thought it was a problem with the phone company, but when we looked outside we could see that someone had actually cut the phone line. "We had to pay about four times the standard rate to get an engineer out that night to fix it. But even if it had cost 10 times as much we still would have paid it, as we had to get our phones working again. "We had 30 drivers standing around doing nothing. Everyone was getting very stressed out. We could hear the New Year fireworks going off outside but we still weren't getting any calls. As soon as the line was fixed we took 300 bookings in half an hour. We must have lost between 800 and 1,000 bookings. We want to apologise to our customers." A group of existing taxi drivers launched Ace last month, hoping they would be able to compete with bigger firms by offering a cheaper minimum fare. Whereas most firms charge a minimum of £3, Ace offer a £2 minimum, which Mr Amin believes makes the company more attractive to pensioners and others on a limited income. But it appears that not everyone has been happy with the new company's arrival. Mr Amin added: "We've sponsored two roundabouts on Lightwood Road, but in the early hours of Christmas Day, one of our drivers saw that our signs on the roundabouts had been smashed. You see sponsored roundabouts all over the place, but only our signs have been damaged. "I've never heard of anything like this happening." A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: "We received a report of damage to five wooden advertising signs in Lightwood Road between 12am and 6am on Tuesday December 25. It was also reported that at around 10.30pm on Monday December 31 damage was caused to a phone line at a business premises in Normacot Road." Anyone with information on either incident is asked to contact Staffordshire Police on 101 quoting incident number 502 of January 1. source: http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Hu ... story.html |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
If you piss up the legs of the competition someone will snap back. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
Nidge2 wrote: If you piss up the legs of the competition someone will snap back. the paper does insist in calling them taxis - the ranks will have been nice and busy for them
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| Author: | toots [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
I can't see them missing too much work at 10.30pm tbh most of it would have been after midnight and they fortunately only missed about half an hour or so of that. I often wonder how the drivers are going to make a living with such low flag. |
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| Author: | x-ray [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
We had an all female private hire firm start up on the wirral many years ago and after a weeks trading they had 5 vehicles broke into and their radios stolen. The local rag ran a front page story on it the next week. How much would that have cost in advertising, together with the human interest and sympathy angle ? Strong rumours at the time say she paid someone to do it. Cynical ? Yes I am ! |
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| Author: | trotskys twin [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
So a scab outfit got treated like scabs OH DEAR 
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| Author: | toots [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
x-ray wrote: We had an all female private hire firm start up on the wirral many years ago and after a weeks trading they had 5 vehicles broke into and their radios stolen. The local rag ran a front page story on it the next week. How much would that have cost in advertising, together with the human interest and sympathy angle ? Strong rumours at the time say she paid someone to do it. Cynical ? Yes I am ! Didn't she get bought out by Park eventually  It was worth setting up just to get bought out them days
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
trotskys twin wrote: So a scab outfit got treated like scabs OH DEAR Have you gone native? You're starting to sound like your anti PH mate Crow. |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
Has it done to me 15 years ago the local police wouldn't investigate it we were back connected within 12 hours the thing is nowadays that their phone provider could have put a divert onto the line so they wouldn't have missed that much |
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| Author: | GBC [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
trotskys twin wrote: So a scab outfit got treated like scabs OH DEAR 
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| Author: | trotskys twin [ Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Minicab wars in Normacot? |
GBC wrote: trotskys twin wrote: So a scab outfit got treated like scabs OH DEAR 
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