and no doubt the faceless one has had a big hand in this and is orchestrating further events to mess up the trade.

Mess up the trade?

You have a problem with removing quantity controls?

Based on a calculated assessment, my final analysis of the number of councils that will be left with a policy of quantity controls at the end of the Government exercise, which asked all restricted councils to re- asses their policy is 27%.

There are still 22 councils who have yet to decide on policy but my final analysis suggests there will be 94 councils retaining quantity controls with perhaps a margin of error of one or possibly two reductions.

This represents a total reduction of 57 councils who have chosen to remove quantity controls since the publication of the DfT letter in June 2004. The reduction in terms of percentage is a massive 37.7% and it could yet be lower.

Or maybe he has a problem with quality controls.

Where is it written, oh font of all knowledge, that you cannot have Quantity AND Quality controls?

nope the faceless ones believe in the OFT mantra of more cars means more choice i.e. more competition, thing is the fares are regulated by the councils.

What does he suggest? negotiate prices

also the faceless ones wished the OFT hadn't got involved, thing is they probably are the OFT

As for Quality controls, they want anyone to be able to drive any type of vehicle so any one can join in.

Obviously it wont matter to the faceless one as he would be hiding somewhere not showing his face.

nope the faceless ones believe in the OFT mantra of more cars means more choice i.e. more competition, thing is the fares are regulated by the councils.

What does he suggest? negotiate prices

also the faceless ones wished the OFT hadn't got involved, thing is they probably are the OFT

As for Quality controls, they want anyone to be able to drive any type of vehicle so any one can join in.

Obviously it wont matter to the faceless one as he would be hiding somewhere not showing his face.

This represents a total reduction of 57 councils who have chosen to remove quantity controls since the publication of the DfT letter in June 2004. The reduction in terms of percentage is a massive 37.7% and it could yet be lower.

and no doubt the faceless one has had a big hand in this and is orchestrating further events to mess up the trade.

really? faceless? sorry TDO as much as you loathe what I say, its the truth, whilst you guys are jacking off on deregulation, spare a thought for the people it has affected, I forget you dont care about them, yet you blabber on about how you are the trade, how you care for the trade etc etc.

That's a lot more than I thought.

As for Mr Kavanagh, I thought he'd moved on to pastures new, or has he?

competition of someone obtaining the same license as you

i like the way you have managed to change the competition word, but tell me how is he going to compete with me?

if you know anything about taxi driving, then you will know that a lot of your work is done on the ranks, so basically if he is before me then he gets the job, if i am before him then I get the job, again if you are a taxi driver then you would know that most taxis have meters, so it would be the same fare, unless of course he wanted to do cut his fares, then thats upto him, as pretty soon he would be out of business.

alternatively he might be flagged down, again his fare will not be any different then mine, if he wants to give a free fare then its up to him, all that will happen is customers will start expecting these silly prices and most of the other good drivers wont be doing them.

no the only competition that will exisit will be the competition for scarce resources i.e. rank space, road space but your faceless species doesnt seem to understand that.