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what a weierd boast.
knackers to the traveling public lets just increase plate premiums

jesus is that what we are about?

No Geoff its not what we're all about as you well know.

The increase in plate premiums has been dramatic, every time the council make a stupid decision following a threat of legal action the price goes up. The Council recently decided to allow Doblo and Sharan vehicles and the price went up again.

What I find strange is that vehicle suppliers want to know where you are before they will quote a price, at Donny last year you could have picked a Doblo up for around £10k, how come the same vehicle is now £15k, the price of the Sharan has increased as well.

What I'm saying Geoff is that the cost to enter the trade has maintained the same restrictions, its still cheaper to enter the trade after paying a premium, in Gateshead anyway.

B. Lucky

The cost of hiring a HC saloon in Gateshead for 24hrs is currently £160.

The cost of hiring a PH vehicle in Gateshead for 24hrs is currently £180 - £300 depending on office.


Now Sussex / TDO / Alex, remind me where the leeches are

B. Lucky

No comment eh

Didn't think you would.

B. Lucky

In my manor, those that cream off the trade, whilst sitting on their fat arses being fully supported by quotas on taxis.

In your manor, well I suppose in the past it would have been you.

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IDFIMH

Not accepting that some people will always leech of this trade shows how wafer thin your arguments are Sussex.

Providing services acceptable to any concerned parties cannot be constrewed as "leeching", you are trying to tell people what to think and attempting to tell them that they would be better off doing things the way you want them done.

Stick to driving PH mate, after all thats what you'd do even if you got a HC plate, and leave the lads who have invested thousands of pounds to make their own living.

B. Lucky

well of course I have a comment, firstly I have lots to do cant spend time weeding through council minutes all the time.

Secondaly I read the new survey proposal in the paper, the non allocation of funds were not in.

the information on here was given in good faith, but hey wait, how often do you check on anything? certainly not laws and rules and regs before you go to taxi group.

nowthen Mick its about time you were fair with arguments, after all you make a mistake you never correct it.

by the way Gateshead is a little bit bigger than Halifax, the last new plates issued went on Horse drawn carriges thats a fact

37 taxi plates and I supposed we call it "planned Growth"

I don't really see your point.

If you rented a street HC in my manor it would cost around £100 less than one renting a radio from an office.

But both plates are worth jack.

The point about quotas, that you consistently ignore, is that the 'excess profits' are unearned, and arise merely because some in the trade have persuaded that powers that be to close off the local market and create a cartel.

PH and or HC despatch offices charge a fee which people pay in order that they will be provided with work. Any profit the office makes is generally down to entrepreunership, not a cartel between councillors and the trade.

We might as well say that you are leeching off customers by charging them to ride in your car or that you are leeching off people by selling them fast tan products

But there's a fundamental difference between a business and a cartel.

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That's the point I was trying to make the other week when you were trying to say that de-limitation in Gateshead had increased premiums for saloon plates.

It's clearly not de-limitation per se that has increased premiums, but the cost of entering the WAV sector vis-a-vis the saloon sector, which is clearly being influenced by changes in council policy.

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