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I dare because I can. I know your opinion is not the same as mine (how boring would that be), nor is mine the same as the corrupt training system that we have already, but, I think yours is a little basic and wouldn't make the trade professional would it :wink:


I think that beneath every smelly, ignorant and useless licensed driver there is a true cab driver bursting to break out.

I dont see how taking either a BTEC or NVQ with some of the current firms and unions out there, basically passing everyone makes him better.

Far better leaving it to me;

You smell, go home get a wash and then come back.

I dont speak that language, go home and learn English, then come back.

You cant spell your name, go home and learn.


Simple really, but not totally PC. :lol:

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I agree with the above, but, my standards are obviously higher than your's :wink:

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I agree with the above, but, my standards are obviously higher than your's :wink:


I see, you mean teaching someone who maybe done the job for 30 years how he should be doing it?

Has anybody ever failed this insane course, and if they did fail was it because they couldn't find the place?

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I agree with the above, but, my standards are obviously higher than your's :wink:


I see, you mean teaching someone who maybe done the job for 30 years how he should be doing it?

Has anybody ever failed this insane course, and if they did fail was it because they couldn't find the place?

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You quite obviously don't see. I never suggested that drivers of 30 years do the insane training that you are talking about. I am talking about proper professional training for new drivers that would be optional for current drivers :roll:

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You quite obviously don't see. I never suggested that drivers of 30 years do the insane training that you are talking about. I am talking about proper professional training for new drivers that would be optional for current drivers :roll:


There isnt such training :wink:

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You quite obviously don't see. I never suggested that drivers of 30 years do the insane training that you are talking about. I am talking about proper professional training for new drivers that would be optional for current drivers :roll:


There isnt such training :wink:

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Exactly my point, that's why there is a need for it :roll:

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Exactly my point, that's why there is a need for it :roll:


then my dear, I suggest you set one up :wink:

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Exactly my point, that's why there is a need for it :roll:


then my dear, I suggest you set one up :wink:

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:shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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The thing that hisses me off is, drivers who have full time employment elsewhere they just come on at night or weekends

Bring in the 48 hour week and they wont.

Yes they will; they will work the day job in another name!!

You probably don't work with them like I do!!

They are not master stroke pullers, thet have PhD's in stoke pulling & this type of legislation would be chicken feed to them to get round.

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@ CC was it the original comment's or the later one in reply to Sussex or both you don't agree with?

It's important I understand where you feel I am wrong as it needs to be said to be understood for the good of the thread, regardless of how it finally plays out.

MrT is correct, there are big greedy business eyes upon us right now looking to muscle everyone out with their control broom.


And finally for this post, tonight I've gone out at 19:30pm and just returned home now 23:45 with £27, £10 of which was two fares I did for a mate @ £5 each, other than him I've seen 3 other fares in that time, every rank is loaded to the gunnels and the streets are empty, two cross channel ferries delivered 5 jobs in total tonight and even the subsidised bus only had 3 ppl on it, yes you heard right, they run a bus at a loss to take even more away from us even though it's not required, had my mate not rang I'd probably be looking at £22 for 3.5 hours work less costs.

Another thing I've noticed is ppl are including PH work when they post around the boards, that to me gives an uneven look at things, here we are undercut by PH to the tune of 30% per fare, our boot is £2.20 and £1.30pm, one reason I can't justify joining a circuit, it will cost me 3k pa in charges and for what to keep getting a £2.60 fare, take the fuel from getting there and doing it and there isn't a lot left, added to which if we were deregulated I would then be forced to join one and the Hack discount would be removed and it would be another 6k pa costs that isn't there to find.


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I suggest you set one up :wink:

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AFAIK, falkirk council plan to do just that in collabaration with the local college. we wait and see.

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I suggest you set one up :wink:

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AFAIK, falkirk council plan to do just that in collabaration with the local college. we wait and see.


Well might I suggest that if that is the case it will be not unlike the Btec/Nvq that is already out there :roll:

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I suggest you set one up :wink:

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AFAIK, falkirk council plan to do just that in collabaration with the local college. we wait and see.


Well might I suggest that if that is the case it will be not unlike the Btec/Nvq that is already out there :roll:


brought that up at the forum meeting, the LO reckons he's passed on numerous "private tutors" touting to run a course. He'd rather make it pertinate to Falkirk and the local trade.

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I suggest you set one up :wink:

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AFAIK, falkirk council plan to do just that in collabaration with the local college. we wait and see.


Well might I suggest that if that is the case it will be not unlike the Btec/Nvq that is already out there :roll:


brought that up at the forum meeting, the LO reckons he's passed on numerous "private tutors" touting to run a course. He'd rather make it pertinate to Falkirk and the local trade.


The 'private tutors' could well be local businesses but if the course they are touting is the same as the Btec/Nvq I can understand why he's not wanting it. What I don't understand is the benefit of a course that is only pertinent to one area of the country :?

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I suggest you set one up :wink:

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AFAIK, falkirk council plan to do just that in collabaration with the local college. we wait and see.


Well might I suggest that if that is the case it will be not unlike the Btec/Nvq that is already out there :roll:


brought that up at the forum meeting, the LO reckons he's passed on numerous "private tutors" touting to run a course. He'd rather make it pertinate to Falkirk and the local trade.


The 'private tutors' could well be local businesses but if the course they are touting is the same as the Btec/Nvq I can understand why he's not wanting it. What I don't understand is the benefit of a course that is only pertinent to one area of the country :?


It could be I read him wrong wrt to it being that parochial, but he was definately saying it would be a course devised and run by the local college and the council, with input from the trade, (among others), determining the coursework. As the college has campuses in Stirling and Clackmanan, I daresay their councils will have/want a say in it's composistion. It still makes it a Central Scotland based course, but if they get it right it could, I suppose, be exported to aother LA's.

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The 'private tutors' could well be local businesses

I would guess they are national scammers.

Thankfully, if what I've heard is correct, the DfT and GoSkills are going to approve a trade led qualification, which hopefully will mean all the money stays in the trade, and the scammers can go away. :D

That said, I suspect the biggest supporters of this new approved system will be the ones making the most money out of it. :roll:

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