Taxi Driver Online

I take everything that mob say with a very large pinch of salt.

They are the friends of the rapists and the like. They never wanted us licensed, so it should be them that share the blame with the crooks.

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Happy to be legit.

I note with interest jacobs, went to a great deal of trouble, to compare liverpool with other large cities ie, Birmingham , Coventry etc almost useing the fact, because we have more plates, than these cities, every thing in the garden was rosie . Not quite realising these cities ,do not have the same culture of taxi use. Makeing this part of the jacobs report not worth the paper it was written on .He may just as well copared liverpool with new york. I think he had made his mined up , then looked around for ways to justify , his conclutions .[/img][/list]

Just remind me again in pounds shillings and pence how much the top owners have accrued in plate values.

Regards

JD

I suspect most of the plates were gained FOC when the council de-limited.

Strange that those that got the plates then, for f*** all, didn't mention about the rank space, managed growth or shared vehicles.

But they are now, what a surprise.

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IDFIMH

Among other recommendations from the office of fair trading , D T I document 16 june 2004 point 3 was there should be an increase in compertition in the taxi market . Now inlight of liverpool council ,sending its taxi licening officer. to give evidence ,to a select committee desperatly pleading the case, for taxi owners . I think Liverpool council should tell us what its going to do to address this point . Or perhaps people might wonder if his loyalty lies with the people who pay his wages ,or some where ellse.

Thank your lucky stars that our old licensing officer didn't go to the meeting.

No knowledge, no meters, no age, no enforcement etc.

Flyer

I would like to draw your attention to this:

" Shame on Liverpool taxi drivers for turning off the clock and asking people for 50 - 80 pounds to take them from aintree, to Liverpool city centre on grand national weekend .My nephew was stuck in town on his own ,after losing his freinds , every taxi he pulled up were asking 40 - 50 pounds to take him to kirkby . Have these people got no children ,of their own ?How would they feel if it was their child ".

local paper liverpool .

25 APRIL 2005


What does the licensing officer, in liverpool get payed for . apart from going to London and sucking up to fleet owners . I must be the only one with my meter on am i fool ?. So much for the capital of culture .

There was a similar letter on the 14th:

SHAME ON TAXIS

I WORKED at Aintree for the three days of the Grand National and on the Friday night I had to work late, missing the company's transport home as a result and - due to the rail strike - our only option home was a taxi.

The taxis were going past Aintree racecourse up to the nearby pub with their lights off, and when they got to the pub they said they were booked. The problem was they were only booked until they were offered £50£60.

In the end we got lucky and managed to get a decent taxi driver to take us home for normal fair. But, to all those other taxi drivers who were scamming the public, shame on them

Maria O'Hara, L36

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Well let's hope that some of those taken the p*** out of just happen to be licensing councillors.

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IDFIMH

Do not get me wrong , i am all for makeing money . But the bigger picture , is painted of us ,as being scum bags . The only time now durring the day ,any one gets in a taxi ,is as a last resort . They would rather wait a hour , for a p h car, Delta usually. or even get on a dirty bus . 10 years ago you could make a good living on days, now you see taxi s ranked up every whare . Its only nights and week ends , When there is a shotage. I am afraid to say, drivers are almost, forced to rip people off . Just to pay the settle to a greedy owner. Untill Liverpool council does what its supposed to . Protect its rate payers, from crooks, because that is what they are . Then the day time taxi trade, will be no more. Liverpool should be fighting to, attract tourists and keep them returning , ripping them off. HELPS NO ONE !

I am getting bored, with people having a go, at Liverpool council .This nonsence about the council ,regulating the taxi trade . Its we the hackney taxi owners, that tell the council what fares to set . what c of f we would like our cabs to adhere to . We the owners did not like the council testing our taxis, so we told them to close their breckside test centre, the council did what they were told .We tell the council what signage we would like on P H Vehicles. This is every hackney taxi owners dream council .Not to clever if you use them, but hey who cares the council dont.

So how far is it from Aintree to Liverpool centre?

I think I might try that when the Open is in St Andrews in july.

Only joking!!!