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Now I've been in this trade a little while, not as long as some, but more than most, and it is without doubt the home of the biggest doom-mongers in any trade.

Despite what the other mongers say (the scare variety), drivers still earn money in de-limited areas. If they don't, then you have to wonder what the flip they are doing in it.

Take the example of Sheffield given by OFT.

Some in the union trade say that because customer waiting times are much the same following de-limitation, it's been a huge disaster.

What those pratts haven't grasped, is that if you have 50% more vehicles, and customer waiting times have remained static, then you have 50% more customers.

Now to me that's a massive success. It shows that if you give customers a better service, in time they we reward you with more custom.

As a trade we are teribly narrow minded, how the hell we moved from horses to mechanical vehicles is one of the worlds wonders.

you too Sussex have a closed mind, especialy when unions are mentioned

for every problem there is a solution, unfortunatly your solutions seem to create more problems.

What giving customers what they want i.e. US,
and giving us what we want i.e. CUSTOMERS?

It's a win win situation for those of us with foresight.

Well, I based my post on the facts in the OFT Report, not just what I see from my own eyes.

Hindsight is what I don't like, it's called the status quo.

THE oft REPORT IS HIGH ON CONTENT AND LOW on any real thought out conclusions, and was written by people who dont understand our, trade.

Yes it was written by people who don't understand our trade, but in my opinion that's the best part of it.

If it was written by one side, or the other side of our trade, then I don't think it would be that free from bias.

OFT may be bias against limiting HC numbers, but I think you will find that's a pretty universal feeling amongst those without a vested plate premium to protect.

The rest of the report says that those councils that could do better, should, and those councils that get it right, should be allowed to keep getting it right.

Ground-breaking no, sensible in parts yes.

it could indeed have made a better united trade, but you and yer mates dont want that do you?

What I want is a fair and equal trade, if it's united as well, then fine. If it takes a while to become united, then that's fine as well.

If it never becomes united, then the blame for that lies fairly and squarely with those that have deemed it fit, that some of us should be discriminated against.

And if they don't like it, they can go f*** themselves.

What I want is a fair and equal trade, if it's united as well, then fine. If it takes a while to become united, then that's fine as well.

If it never becomes united, then the blame for that lies fairly and squarely with those that have deemed it fit, that some of us should be discriminated against.

And if they don't like it, they can go f*** themselves.

Spoken like a true Christian!

I think every company should go to £5 minimum at 11pm and stay there until 7am all the way through the week.

how can the trade be equal? look Sussex, I can show you private hire and Hackney drivers who can live a fairly lavish life, good hours and time off at christmas.

off the same ranks and the same offices I can show you people who live real poverty, there are winners and loses and I can tell when a new lad starts on our rank within a week how hes going to be, sometimes after 1 night.

now equal? no way will that ever be!

there will always be winners and losers

Of course the takings of some will always be better than others, but my point was that the HC/PH trade should be fair to all, and equally open to all.