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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:38 pm 
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I dont' think it was over a period of 10 years because the numbers have been quite static for the last few years.


Yes, but even if numbers are relatively static there will still be new vehicles coming on and others departing.

Or think about it another way - even if numbers were restricted for twenty years then it's not going to be the same people owning the plates at the end as started at the beginning. Some will be, but a lot will have changed hands.

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I'm not entirely sure where you'll get that kind of information from


Indeed, so it's better to claim that they've all ended up selling the Big Issue.


Your point. It's obvious that drivers will change over the years I just don't get your point. I know a few went over to HC from PH then went back to PH but what happened to their vehicles I have no idea

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:02 pm 
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Dusty Bin wrote:

Yes, but even if numbers are relatively static there will still be new vehicles coming on and others departing.




Except where there is a mixed fleet.

If you have a fleet of 200 hackney carriages, with 100 saloons and 100 WAV's.......and there is a deregulated policy but the new licensee must license a WAV......you find the saloon plate attracts a premium where the WAV end fluctuates.

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:22 am 
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Don't really have a clue what either of you are on about, so I'll try to make my original point again.

Forget a restricted market, assume it's unrestricted. And forget PH and forget a mixed HC fleet.

Say that over 20 years the number of HCs remains static at 100 vehicles. It doesn't move. There were 100 vehicles at the start, and 100 vehicles at the end.

Your thinking seems to say that in such a situation no plates are ever handed in. But that's not the case. Some will leave the trade while others start from scratch.

Some will retire, some will move onto another job or business. Some will be part-time anyway, and/or just doing it as a stop-gap until they get a 'proper' job. Some will find that they just don't like the job, or they grin and bear it for a few years and then get fed up. Some may well not be able to make the repayments on their cab and it's reposessed or they hand it back, or whatever.

Anyway, five vehicles giving up per year doesn't seem unrealistic. Probably a few more, but five is a nice round number. And five new starts per year. So overall the two cancel each other out, and the fleet stays at 100.

But with five vehicles per year leaving the trade, over 20 years that's 100 plates handed back :shock:

Sounds awful when it's spun in a particular way, but in reality it's no big deal at all. People come and go, end of.

Of course, some may well have gone 'bankrupt' - whatever that means exactly - and that's unfortunate, but it's not necessarily representative of the bigger picture.


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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:08 am 
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Dusty Bin wrote:
Forget a restricted market, assume it's unrestricted


You mean like it was the other week :wink:

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And forget PH and forget a mixed HC fleet.


Why? You can't just change things to suit the arguement

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Say that over 20 years the number of HCs remains static at 100 vehicles. It doesn't move. There were 100 vehicle at the start, and 100 vehicles at the end.

Your thinking seems to say that in such a situation no plates are ever handed in. But that's not the case. Some will leave the trade while others start from scratch.


I don't think anybody has said that, I certainly haven't. The rest of your answer is a lot of 'lets say' and we can all say but we don't know for sure do we. That doesn't make anybody right because nobody knows the truth of the matter so we can speculate as much as we like.

The one thing I know for sure is that 3 of the 'grandad plates' are stuffed in a drawer at home and not attached to any vehicle so now all we to do is find out where the other 111 went :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:20 am 
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And forget PH and forget a mixed HC fleet.


Why? You can't just change things to suit the arguement



No, it's just for simplicity's sake to illustrate a very simple argument. Or at least very simple to those inhabiting the real world.

Basically your mindset reflects the HC mindset which says that no plate should even be handed back, thus they don't really live in the real world.

But of course if it lines their pockets then who's bothered about what's really going on?


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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:28 am 
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Dusty Bin wrote:
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Dusty Bin wrote:
And forget PH and forget a mixed HC fleet.


Why? You can't just change things to suit the arguement



No, it's just for simplicity's sake to illustrate a very simple argument. Or at least very simple to those inhabiting the real world.

Basically your mindset reflects the HC mindset which says that no plate should even be handed back, thus they don't really live in the real world.

But of course if it lines their pockets then who's bothered about what's really going on?


I don't understand why you think that I believe no plate should ever be handed back. Lets get one thing straight ok, I know things change, people change, jobs change and the need for a taxi plate changes. As to whether there were ever 400 taxis on the roads of the Wirral at any time is unsure although people I've spoken to today seem to think there was, but, I don't know. If there was and 114 plates have been handed back it may have something to do with Vauxhalls and British Aerospace taking on more workers :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:40 am 
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Yes, arguing against yourself again Toots :wink:

Well if you don't know whether there were 400 taxi on the Wirral at any one time then why don't you ask Wirral MBC, because the numbers I supplied the other night seem to indicate otherwise? :D

As for what some in the trade tell you, it's very probably either a case of #-o or :---)

Surely by now you've learnt not to take such claims at face value? :D


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