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http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/uturn.htm

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I just hope that councils keep on lifting quotas at the rate they are at present. If that happens then only a few stale old councils will still have them.
Decent proper standards is what this trade needs. Both for drivers and vehicles.
Not a 150 year old set of number restrictions. Which has led to the PHV trade growing year after year, while the taxi trade in some areas has stagnated at best.

Mrs Dundwoody made great play of the fact that taxi firms in Crewe that previously provided a 24-hour service on 'an equal basis' did not do so after de-limitation.

Of course she didn't mention to the Minister that the flag fall is exactly the same during the night, with all the idiots etc, as it is during the day.

Would you face the dregs for the same fares?

So all of a sudden following de-limit in Crewe the whole taxi trade stopped working at night?

So the lads who had to buy £30,000 motors, decided that the best way to pay that back was to work during the day, earning nothing, all the time there was bundles of work and money to be had during the night.

Clearly Dunwoody thinks the cab trade is as thick as those on the select committe.

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IDFIMH

Thats not what she said Sussex.

She refered to the number of vehicles available over the full 24 hrs and was commenting on suggestions that PH firms who had offered a 24hr service were struggling to get PH drivers to provide cover for the full 24hrs. She had commented that it had been reported the someone had great dificuly in obtaing a PH at 4am, the PH operator had blamed the lack of PH drivers since deregulation as while HC restrictions were in place enough PH drivers existed enabling his business to offer a full 24hr service.

B. Lucky

So we force drivers to work s*** hours by restricting their options.

Perhaps the House of Commons should sit throughout the night, and all MPs should attend.

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IDFIMH

Thats not only childish argument its pointless argument.

Drivers are mainly self employed and generally choose the hours they want to do.
My advice to anyone that is forced to work hours they don't want to work is go and find an operator who won't.

B. Lucky

Where does all this stuff about PH come from - it certainly isn't in the Commons debate - she refers only to taxis (by which she seems to mean HC) and only says that some taxis might have previously been PH, but her claim about 24-hour service seems to relate to taxis.

She certainly doesn't say that there is no 24-hour service now, does she?