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getting a bit closer to home.

If you want to de limit go ahead.
I work in Crawley who delimited nearly 2 years ago .We've gone from 79 to 93 taxis in that time and our wages have halved for the same amount of hours worked. Drivers who already had wav s like me( a 1998 Metrocab) are too scared to change it in case the Council issue another 20 or 30 plates before we can finish paying for it.What with that and the current lack of work generally here,( any one else got this problem?) our drivers are now starting to work full time for a company Bus driving etc and are now cabbing part time.
But hell if you dont believe me come to the great metropolis of Crawley and see for your self.
If the delimiting does not finish the cab trade off here the new 24 hour fully subsidised half price fuel buses will.

Best of luck to you all
Mickey

How did the PH (non airport) trade manage to make a living before then, because they have always been de-limited?

Now if the Crawley HC trade had used their brains in the past, and not kept to taxi quotas, then they would have had the flexibilty (and cab numbers) to run the ranks at the airport.

But they didn't, which is why the airport has PHs ranked up raring to go.

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IDFIMH

hes got a point.
millions of customers in your area and PH pick nearly all of them up.
big big lost oppportunity.

I can't quite work out how an increase from 79 to 93 taxis could have led to wages halving - surely there must be other factors at work?

And if some drivers are working part-time now then this should increase the work available to the remaining full-timers

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The PH trade survived as they always do by cut pricing Taxi fares,ie Taxi fare £ 3.00 Ph fare for same journey £ 2.00
As for Gatwick Airport,if you knew anything about the taxi trade in this area,you would know that this has nothing to do with numbers but with BAA plc and the amount of money they coin in annually from the PH concessionaire.

Reading this forum are you Taxi or PH because I thought I had Joined a Taxi forum ?and surely no one in the Taxi trade wants de limitation.

Mickey

Well if you knew anything about Gatwick you would know that the prices charged by the PH from the two terminals is far in excess of the prices you charge.

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IDFIMH

Bearing in mind that 65% of council areas are de-limited, I would say there might be one or two HC drivers that manage to cope with de-limitation.

As for you comments on the forum, and whether PH should be allowed to ply their posts, well they can and I've been made more than welcome on here.

In other words tough.

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IDFIMH

Funny that, because we always keep hearing that lower fares mean non-survival, but you are making the opposite case

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If you haven't found our homepage yet, have a look, from the banner at the top it's fairly obvious what the site's about.

The link is at the bottom of this message.

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Well you'd be surprised.

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As I said before this seems to be a Private Hire forum and not a Taxi forum and so I will bid you farewell ,best of luck too you all,

Mickey

Well it's both, but if you use this as an excuse not to debate then that's your problem.

See ya

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Isn't London de-limited? How on earth have they managed all this time?

Isn't the real issue less about numbers and more about how you manage change?

Why indeed! Creating a market in the trading of taxi plates was a sure way of draining the trade of a large chunk of it's much needed investment.

That sizeable chunk comes from the very group of people who would benefit the most from re-investing their money in such things as vehicles and software research and developement, ie those drivers and proprietors who are in the trade for the long term.

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