Mick Pollard wrote:
I think we've been here before. The arguments are not one of numbers but one of premiums.
The number of H/C plates should be restricted, all plates should only be issued to drivers and should be returned to the council when the driver no longer wishes to use them, for re-allocation.
The problem is that the majority of H/C owner drivers have paid a premium for the licence they hold and the minority are abusers, or leeches as you like to call them.
But lets not spend a moment to consider the bloke who paid a premium to obtain a plate to pay using a 5 year personal loan, who will see himself and his wife and children thrown out of their home when they cannot afford the loan repayments due to the fact that someone didn't want to do as he did in an attempt to improve his families lifestyle, because they want everything for nothing without consideration for others.
Funnily these are normally the same people that believe charity begins at home, its a sad state of affairs.
B. Lucky
Mick,
first of all charity does begin at home all to often it ends there.
people who get 5 year loans are very foolish in so doing, buying any buisness is a gambol, spare a thought for the man who spends on a corner shop to find asda and tesco opening.
it realy is something that should be thought through thouraly, but who in the end pays that premium isnt it the customer gauranteed by the driver?
its often said there is no sentiment in buisness, those ranks are owned by joe public and fred citisen so why should thier use be sold after all initial allocation is free.
but premiums are bad news for consumers, they pay higher prices, suffer less service, there are better barriers than this I have never been to a limited area yet where the consumer wins
and remember this nowhere in any act does it say that taxis must be owned by drivers!
yes we have had these arguments and everytime sound principles of fairness are brushed aside.
its good union stuff to think of the downtrodden except your Union leeder says your arguments are wrong and misguided, so they are.
Wharfie