Taxi Driver Online

It's dead out there. There's no demand for taxis. And there is not going to be later. No unmet demand queues at marshaled taxi ranks either.

How do I know this?

Because my neighbour's taxi is firmly ensconced on his drive. It hasn't moved tonight. And it aint going to.

So he is not out there meeting unmet demand. He either knows it doesn't exist or, as is more likely, he doesn't care. But then, why should he? No one else associated with Edinburgh's taxi trade cares about customers, so why should he. And when he's ready, when it suits him, he'll get back in the saddle and harvest cash from the cash cow customers to pay his bills.

Strange thing is, when Halcrow were deciding that the queues of customers formed because they can't hail cab, or vulnerable women walk rather than hang around, or when those females take a lift from an alternative unsafe source and they are harmed as a result (and it has happened), didn't amount to an unmet demand, was my neighbour's conscience be "panged"? Did it occur to him whether being granted a Scottish Nasty Party privileged restricted licence places some obligation on him to make some effort to meet public demand? And that isn't by sitting with his butt welded his chair, watching a football match.

Did Halcrow scour the schemes and estates at 1 am to see how many of the restricted taxis were already parked up? So, how "professional" are Halcrow?

Sad thing is that there are guys out there who can't get access to a car. Or their own plate. Who would meet the demand, but aren't allowed to. Because City of Edinburgh Council puts protecting its own and vested interests before the needs of the public it is supposedly charged to put first?

Of course, there may be another answer. His taxi is a peter cab. And, couldn't there be another reason he doesn't think it worthwhile to hit the streets? Lost contracts, declining work, increased competition even within his own company .... all delivered by those who see the company as their own and not the members'.

I hope those walking home are chuffed he enjoyed the match.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

me to i no work late tonight either cos there more police officer than people out tonight he car there cos no demand not cos he not bother or maybe he had good week an like you fancy a saturday with family instead of coke fueled drunk for company

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theres genuinely no demand here t'night...damn the good weather, they're all loitering about their burnt out BBQ's and drinking at home or in their gardens. pubs are dead.

So one off jasbar's arguement for access to his own cab is to work the hours he deems are right for him.

Then he chastises his neighbour for doing exactly that. For whatever reason, jasbars neighbour doesn't wang to work a Saturday night. A Saturday night that falls on a bank holiday weekend and perhaps said neighbour has chosen to work the Sunday evening in what is usually a very busy night. Especially with a cup final taking place and many other cabs will be off the road, thus increasing the potential work fit that less cabs working.

Or maybe he has decided to take Saturday off because the Edinburgh marathon is taking place on the Sunday morning. Again, a time that is historically very profitable for the Edinburgh trade

jasbar keep posting your deluded thoughts as you make it so easy for others who are in any doubt what a silly man you are.
Why not be happy like me being a driver.......... is it really that bad

Quiet Here Aswell.
Before 2am Was Just Long Que's Everywhere, Work Rolled untill About 3:30am.
Started at 6pm Did about 15Fares Damn £3.00 Private-Hires.

You never do respond to the substance of posts do you? You have no answer to the logic of the argument, nor even a pretence of one, just a slip into your usual personal infantile response. It really is tedious.

Sorry. No way I could be a happy cabbniggr slave like you.

You have no honour, just an innate desire to grovel before your masters who will ultimately abuse you. When it suits them. Because that's what masters in the hack trade do. And you'll just turn your back and take it up the choccy with a smile and seek the next master for you to fawn on. You don't have even a modicum of self respect.

And there are no deluded thoughts. Just a sense of justice for workers who are put upon. A striving for fair play and an equal opportunity for all. Which we're supposed to have in our 21st century democracy. But which is implicitly denied by government.

Fact is. Push comes to shove, I wouldn't lift a finger to defend our country. Extreme though it may seem, the yoke of Nazism, or even Islamic Shariah Law, would appear to be preferable to what we have just now. Because government control now is surreptitious. It's so successful you complete feckwits don't even realise you're being controlled.

Overt Nazism, or Islam Shariah Law, would be a wake up call for even you to realise your real station in life, and might just galvanise you into demanding the real fair society we don't currently have.

Meanwhile, how many customers were inconvenienced last night because my neighbour, and many others like him, were sat on their butts not working? And how many guys now working in the trade, or not, wish they enjoyed the freedom to provide the service my neighbour clearly doesn't want to?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

The shocking thing is that it would be the same Scottish Nasty Party led government that is denying me my fundamental rights that would be the first to expect me to take up the cudgel to defend their pile.

And they would seek to cite me as being traitor for refusing to bear arms to defend their interests. Indeed they might even seek to imprison, or worse, those like me who see through their dictatorship.

But there are many many more who have been dispossessed as stakeholders by our various and multi-layered governments. And being dispossessed, why would those dispossessed wish to save the hides of those who had denied them even their fundamental rights?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

You're in the wrong job for you.

End of.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

maybe but its a good thing you are as you say kept out of it with the way you see things

or is this all because you went from a cabnggr to a penniggr an book not sell well enough for you to come gloat how you dont need to be a cabnggr anymore and JK Rowling is poping in for tea an biscuts later where you will be discuss about writing a duet called the rampant gay magician

Bizarre - a regular punter of mine is in Edinburgh for todays marathon - he couldn't get a hotel room in Edinburgh last night.

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

Jasbar is being fasecious and flippant. By saying his neighbour wasn't working then it must be quiet as the guy doesn't need to work. I know what I earned 7pm-7am, I know what a mate earned 4pm-4am. Town was heaving and around 5am-7am (when i finished) vcwith runners going to the marathon, the radio companies where off the hook. Not much on the streets but that's another discussion for why jasbar won't/can't work a radio circuit, for another day

As I said, jasbar has argued that with his own cab, he won't be constrained by what times to work. He'd work when it suits him. Isn't that exactly what his neighbour was doing last night?

My mother is up there to (not running the marathon) her plastic knees and hips won't take it and she's said the same the place is rammed.

I was out socialising in and around the Grassmarket/Cowgate area last night and the place was rammed with people out enjoying the weather/football etc.

I left at 1am and walked back to Comiston area and I could have had my pick from any one of the thirty to forty empty black hacks that passed me on their way back into town. So plenty guys out servicing the public last night.

Listen bright boy. Put your selfishness aside and clock this. A fact that Halcrow couldn't find on their best day. Because they only answer the questions the council asks. And the council don't ask questions to deal with this.

My daughter-in-law, a woman on her own, walked for an hour and a half last night before she could get a taxi.

And all while taxis that should be providing service are parked up. And Edinburgh's taxi trade scum like LongwanksED tries to justify it, because his only interest in customers is how much cash they give him.

The taxi trade's attitude to customer service is woeful in Edinburgh.

BTW I take it the smoking ban in taxis has been lifted. because all I see are drivers smoking, arms out the window with the fag in it, as if that is somehow not smoking in the cab.

I reckon Edinburgh needs a permanent police enforcement squad to ensure both vehicle and driver standards, and who can respond immediately to customer complaints and who should be encouraged to make proper complaint. And financed by an increase in the operators' fee. Because that's what the trade has come to. It just can't be trusted to act properly on its own.

And the hours worked by every vehicle and driver should be logged, information to be used in demand surveys and safety examination.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"