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Halting progress and technology is a fact of life that is unattainable but in many cases it can be slowed to a level that suits those who might least benefit from change, however, eventually progress and technology overtake events and they always succeed in the end.

We know that change is inevitable in the taxi trade but how much can that change be slowed?

Telecommunications has developed to such an extent that even those learned scholars of years gone by would have been hard pressed to envisage the reality of the world we live in today?

How many of them would have dreamed of a world of mobile telephones and the internet, to mention just two modern technologies?

No doubt I will be long gone when real change falls at the door of the combined hire and reward industry but there is no doubt in my mind that inevitably it will and when it does the hire and reward industry will be turned completely on its head and those who do not have the ability to adapt will be left floundering in the wake of those that do?

Perhaps I am too much of a realist but freedom of thought does give me the option of being either a realist, optimist or pessimist, the fact I choose the former negates any explanation of the latter. It won't get me anywhere because I've already been there but regardless of whether I'm an optimistic realist or a pessimistic realist it is you guys who are the future of the hire and reward industry and it is you who these changes will impact upon.

I just wonder which category you fit into when it comes down to being a realist, optimist or pessimist?

A few years ago I wrote a long piece in a thread on TDO about Technology and change, the reason being is that we all must be aware that change sooner or later is inevitable. How that change is managed is another issue but one which you guys will eventually have to answer.

Regards

JD

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Put me down as an optimist, as I firmly believer the trade has a great future.

Despite what the doom-mongers say, more and more people are using our services, and despite the down-turn in the economy the trade is still going strong.

Yes some areas are a bit iffy at the mo, but if this trade improves the quality of vehicle and driver, improves the viability and safety of the job, then IMO it will only go from strength to strength.

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IDFIMH

thanks sussex, i was going a bit wobbly last night, but i have renewed vigour after reading that

anyway, at the worst ive ended up with a posh transit with windows in it and £1000 insurance.......sob...


as for technology, well - GPS, live tracking, t'internet, GPRS phones


BUT, even wayback when, radios knew of no borough border limitations, the writing was on the wall 30 years ago, its the legislation thats being left behind, ive just been asked on a form "will you fit a radio phone"...wtf is one of them?......lol

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Im kind of somewhere between being an OPTIMIST and a REALIST..guess that makes me an "Opthalmist"...but i just cant see where im going with an outlook like this...

One day we will have free call diversion, its a bloody rip off at the moment

im bysexual

if i want sex, i have to buy it


and tempremental - part temper part mental

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

skippy, are you independent/no circuit/no radio rent?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Yes why

Gone are the days when we had to put four pennies in the telephone to get a job or press button B if the Office was busy

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

What you never learned the tap system, tap out the numbers by taping the bit where the receiver went

Unfortunately they were the newer phones

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Great post Mr JD!

For the record I'm a cautiously, optimistic, realist.

And OFT956 already mentioned in passing that GPRS phones & GPS dispatch systems could soon be advanced to a stage where the customer phoning for a taxi would be able to be directly connected to the nearest free vehicle's driver.

The mind boggles as to what will be realistically enforceable in 10 years time.

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Kind regards,

Brummie Cabbie.

Type a message, post your news,
Disagree with other members' views;
But please, do have some decorum,
When debating on the TDO Forum.

Thus proving the point that new legislation would be a fruitless waste of cash

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

So we plod on in chaos & unenforceability then.

I think that legislators in some fields of statute have already realised the pace of technology is outstripping legislation & have started to use wording that 'sees into the future' to use a phrase.

The only problem with that is the wording is so all encompassing to reflect what might happen in the future, that the new legislation ends up more vague than what it is trying to correct or replace.

It's a difficult issue.

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Kind regards,

Brummie Cabbie.

Type a message, post your news,
Disagree with other members' views;
But please, do have some decorum,
When debating on the TDO Forum.

Your PC is out of date the moment it leaves the shop...as is your television, your cab, your phone.

As I've said before...will any new legislation be so remotely removed from what we have currently?

Somehow I dont think so....everytime you get a slow puncture you dont buy a new cab.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin