Taxi Driver Online

Surley this site should be called WANNABEE TAXI ONLINE ?
It seems to be very pro Dereg, pro PH etc.
Is there any topic or post on this site that has NOT had a reply or comment from "SUSSEX"
Is he a super control freak or rabid attention seeker, most likley both.
Sussex please get a life, grow a spine and buy a plate it is the only way you are likley to get one. STOP WHINGING.

I think I will look for a real TAXI forum. Anyone know of a site that truly promotes the interests of the taxi trade.

BYE

A man who has a lot to lose perhaps Someone should have told him that plate he thinks he owns is not his.

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A man who has a lot to lose perhaps :roll: Someone should have told him that plate he thinks he owns is not his.[/quote]


Yes the local LA "owns" the plate,(boring, heard it all before). Stick your head up out of the swamp and look at the real world. What you get for nothing is worth exactly what you pay for it. When plates are worth nothing so is the business. Look at what happend to the buses. If there were total dereg the bus companies will be all over the taxi trade and the owner/driver would be extinct in 5 years. They have very deep pockets and the business brains that are so lacking in the taxi fraternity. The only thing preventing a national taxi company is the local licensing issue. Owner/Drivers will go the way of the corner shop. TESCO TAXIS ???, they are into every area of consumer retailing. Think about how much the national taxi/ph turnover is and tell me those numbers would not interest a major retailer and then I will think about what I have to lose. The trade has been very good to me, I have enjoyed it and made a very good living. I will retire in the next few years and live off my investments. If I were starting today, forget it, the best days are gone. I give it 5 years max before the trade changes to multi region or national companies and the only owner/drivers will be in rural and uneconomic areas populated by "sussex" and his ludite retards.

Over 70% of the united kingdom is deregulated, are you suggesting that bus companies are waiting for the other 28% to deregulate before they put into action your percieved notion of total domination?

Regards

JD

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Yes the local LA "owns" the plate,(boring, heard it all before). Stick your head up out of the swamp and look at the real world. What you get for nothing is worth exactly what you pay for it. When plates are worth nothing so is the business. Look at what happend to the buses. If there were total dereg the bus companies will be all over the taxi trade and the owner/driver would be extinct in 5 years. They have very deep pockets and the business brains that are so lacking in the taxi fraternity. The only thing preventing a national taxi company is the local licensing issue. Owner/Drivers will go the way of the corner shop. TESCO TAXIS ???, they are into every area of consumer retailing. Think about how much the national taxi/ph turnover is and tell me those numbers would not interest a major retailer and then I will think about what I have to lose. The trade has been very good to me, I have enjoyed it and made a very good living. I will retire in the next few years and live off my investments. If I were starting today, forget it, the best days are gone. I give it 5 years max before the trade changes to multi region or national companies and the only owner/drivers will be in rural and uneconomic areas populated by "sussex" and his ludite retards.[/quote]

So in 5 years your going to just hand your plate back then?

No, i didnt think so!

The only way your buisness is worth anything is if you had regular customers who only use you!
As it is, anyone can pick up your punters, you wont be missed in 5 years time mate, not by anyone.................................................bye!

So in 5 years your going to just hand your plate back then?

No, i didnt think so! :-({|=

The only way your buisness is worth anything is if you had regular customers who only use you!
As it is, anyone can pick up your punters, you wont be missed in 5 years time mate, not by anyone.................................................bye![/quote]

I paid nothing for it, I got mine from the waiting list so I have never attached any value to it. I do have a very good customer base but that goes with my telephone number which may have a value. Customer base list are very tradeable. Are my feeling supposed to be hurt by your your "wont be missed" remark, how very sad your life must be.

You must do a lot of private hire work if you have a very good customer base or is it a customer base of one 1?

Regards

JD

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The most sensible thing you have said fella.

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So is all prebooked work PH. In 25+ years no-one has every telephoned to book a PH, every call asks for a TAXI, A TAXI, get it people dont want and dont ask for a PH, they ask for A TAXI. PH exist because of the taxi trade, on the back of the Taxi trade, or rather more poleitley a suppliment to the Taxi trade.
I started as a driver and will retire as an Owner, a natural progression, in the proceess I have made a good living. You should have tried it then you would not be so bitter and twisted. Your envy is so apparent its pitiful.

Sorry about poor spelling at times but only had Secondary Mod. education Uni was only a dream on my council estate.

My envy? lol

I wasn't aware I had displayed the trait of a person who covets what you have to offer? lol

You never did say which authority you were complaining about, is it the case you come from another forum looking for advice on BTecs? Would that be classed as picking our brains?

You make the wrong assumption about private hire, A private hire is anything and everything that is obtained not as as a public hire.

Generic names have nothing whatsoever to do with private hire terminology, as the term is unique in its description.

Regards

JD

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Reply: You are fraudsters calling this site "Taxi Driver" online its a PH promotion site. Every reply you have made is anti-taxi and pro PH. But it does not change the fact that the public do not ask for a PH, they ask for a taxi and often get a PH and most dont know and dont care if they did know. I know as much about the B-tech as I want to know, as for picking your brains, that would imply that I think you have something of value to add to the arguement which I realised a long time ago that you dont. You are driven by self interest and self promotion fuelled by tankfuls of self importance.

Remind me, what is wrong with promoting PH?

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T., for someone who goes on about parasites, exploitation and self-interest while clearly supporting taxi cartels, I think it's all very ironic and that you've got a bit of a brass neck.

The one thing that you have got correct though is that the public don't really differentiate between HC and PH, and that's why it's wrong to differentiate between the drivers, and this discrimination serves only to allow people like yourself to exploit them.

That's also why anyone in the trade is welcome to post on here, even including yourself.

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T. , you laughed at Sussex and called him a "luddite" but as he is the progressive one and you are the one who wishes to remain in the past, the term is more appropriately applied to yourself.

However I do wonder at the number of posts from our south coast friend

Also you say that the public ask for a Taxi on the phone. That is because it is used as a general term by the public....you don't hear:
"I should like to book the services of a hackney carriage to convey me to the local hostelry".

You really should realise that there is far more to unite us than to divide us and if we were all to act together we could achieve far more. Sure we compete commercially but so do Airlines but it doesn't stop them cooperating on many important safety or regulation issues etc.

But I thought your comment about TESCO TAXIS was very good

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