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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:37 pm 
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edders23 wrote:
yup meter ticks over to £1.80 as soon as vehicle moves unfortunately there are certain trade members in grotsville that insist on this they are frightened punters will be put off by a higher flagfall and to be fair a few years ago a couple of locals decided to have their own tariff card with meters set to start at £3.00 but including the first mile within 4 weeks they switched to the default tariff even though they were actually 10p a mile cheaper because punters would not get in their cars


Sounds utterly daft - is there any practical difference between having a zero flagfall of £1.70 and clicking up to £1.80 when car moves off, and one starting at £1.80 and clicking up only after 1/18th of a mile covered?

Would have thought punters more likely to be annoyed by the zero flagfall scenario - the driver activates the meter and literally a second or two later it clicks up ten pence?

And what happens if you only activate the meter once you've moved off? :oops:

Does it show the £1.70 or the £1.80? :shock:


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:50 pm 
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edders23 wrote:
Nowadays all vehicles are electronic speedos so meters are likewise


So you mean fares weren't always quantified via the app, Uber-style? :shock:

Seriously though, they even had the internet when I started in the trade, so all that stuff about speedo cables and the like is a bit before my time. :D

You can spare me the details of how the pre-electronic meters couldn't cope with a non-zero flagfall distance, but they must have been pretty primitive mechanically. [-(


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