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a aylesbury private-hire driver who previously was driving for (falcon taxis) has now opened his own firm citycabs in which his local fare is 2.50 anywere around aylesbury, firstly the aylesbury local private-hire fare was 3.50 to 5.00 depending on your journey then in 2008/9 a private-hire firm was opened (call a cab) who's fare was 3.00 around aylesbury then a meeting happened which said all p.h will be 3.00 around aylesbury, now this citycabs firm is 2.50 meaning a lot of competition an angry drivers.

Cutting each others' throats is never a good plan. If it works, everyone else will follow suit or even undercut them. Only winner is Joe Public.

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He won't last long.

People will phone him and try him out because he's cheap "but" when he starts running late and fails to pick passengers up etc etc he'll be on his backside in no time. I've seen it happen in our town where firms set up offering runs to hear there and everywhere for next to nothing, they can't keep it up for long.

There's an old saying, "you get what you pay for".

undercutting does work but only for the punter and the operator/owners the rest of us mere drivers get shafted.Once one does it its a slippery slope !!

I no how it is I now have to do about 35 jobs a day for me to make my daily target of 100, now what all the private hire companys are telling owner drivers they can only stick to 1 shift day or night not days during the week they day an night on weekends as there is not enough work to go around, cab 44 who do you drive for I have my own car in abc taxis.

In your other thread you wanted to join the hacks to earn more, get all the drivers to refuse to charge less then you will
or you could ask the council to fit meters

Your average job is £3.30?

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IDFIMH

no its £3 anywere in aylesbury but for me to make an average of 100 a day I have to do a average of 35 jobs a day which some times is hard last wednesday 12hour shift I did 18 jobs and I made 60 inc tips.

Have you considered another way to earn a living?

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IDFIMH

yes I have fort of buying a takeaway but even in that trade there is a lot of competition, there is another thing I want to do is to start driving taxi in a village near by as a couple of men who work with my friend have handed there hackneys to drivers and started a firm in a village an I hear they are doing very well better thAn the aylesbury town drivers,

hamidtaxi I used to own my own hackney but recently I have sold it, and now I'm driving for the guy I hav sold it too but the company is five twos taxis.

isnt that tantamount to price fixing?...

Not according to my calculator it isn't!

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£2.86 according to mine, but, I have been known to make mistakes when it comes to sums

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Getting your own ph ops license is an option and you could build up your own customer base

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!