Wait to Uber turn up.

Uber not interested,

If you have a university they will be interested.

Uber not interested, we are 4 very small unitary authorities. Saying all that with a population of 130,000 we currently have 1170 licenced vehicles, possibly the most per population in the country if not the world at 1 licenced vehicle per 118 people living in our town. We have just over 300 hacks, the rest are these 2 waring PH companies that charge £250 per week for each vehicle, and supplying work at just under £10 an hour (average) meaning it's totally impossible for drivers to earn anywhere close to minimum wage and most are forced to work 80-100 per week to feed their families.

cost of living must be high round there if they need to make £800 to £1000 a week to live also if it's that overcrowded and they can still generate enough work for the drivers to average £10 an hour it must be a buoyant market

I probably only average £4.50 an hour that's the taxi trade across the uk. The customers have the upper hand and the plate barons are determined to compete on price with one another. Our council makes it clear that their aim is to make sure there are enough taxis so that even on the busiest night of the year nobody has to wait at the rank. They insist on their employees having a living wage but not the taxi trade

£800 minus £250 for car insurance and radio minus fuel apx £160 based on using £2.00 of fuel an hour which is probably on the low side leaves £390 divided by 80 equals £4.875 per hour and if you chose to work less hours that hourly rate falls even further if that's how much you can earn in a buoyant market I dread to think what you would earn in a flat one.

I don't know the area myself but I would guess there's too many drivers because of lack of other opportunities and a LA that will keep issuing badge after badge as long as it's putting more shekels in the council coffers.

You fekking creep the Council workers are of course Unionised and its their negotiating skills that obtain the Council workers salaries you you fekking thick kkunt and other cab drivers are too stooopid to organise yerselves quite honestly i am glad in your case you are a truly exceptional brain dead kkunt

hope yer starve pillock

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So they dont make a profit so can you explain why three year badges in lots of cases cost as much or very close to the same as three one year badges is there three times more work in issuing a three year badge, I think not even factoring in the enforcement and ongoing admin costs, also as the amount of badges issued in an area increases shouldnt economy of scale come into play causing the the individual badge renewals to fall in price slightly yet that never seems to happen.

There is a very simple answer to that question. The trade! Why are drivers in areas where this is happening not challenging the Council. Get the breakdown of the costs and scrutinise them. Take them to the district auditor, the local government Ombudsman and the press.