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Anyone give me a rough price of what my one is worth at the moment:

Serious prices please......

Registerd Nov 05 on a 55 plate,
Full Hackey spec incl Air con, Walnut Dash, Colour Coded Bumpers,Fogs etc its got everything, Immaculate Condition, Four Flip down Screens in rear for Ps2/Xbox keeps the punters occupied.
Peugeot Service History,
25,000 miles

Looking to now buy a VW Shuttle

Any recommendations on best place to buy a Shuttle Lwb SE

i would say to expect around £15,000- £17,000
your taxi loses a hell of a lot in the first year!
if you are after a vw shuttle,best 2 places to go are
www.bernardmansell.com and
www.jubileeauto.net
I was going to buy a vw shuttle but decided to cut costs instead and have now got a ford connect from mansells! good taxi but wish i spent the extra now! missing out on 7 seater runs and the like!

Funny that, i went from a seven seater connect to what i got now and get nothing but complaints from my airport punters, i.e its too taxiiiiishhhhhh and realisticly trying to pull in more airports than ever so its got to go unfortunately, but dont know if i can take a hit like that £15-£17k

You will be very lucky to get 12k for it even as a trade in,
and remember its a buyers market out there

May I humbly suggest that vehicle owners try to keep a rough record of their passenger occupancy requirements. By doing this the owner will( where not restricted) be able to identify the best ergonomically and economically efficent vehicles to use in pursuit his trading activity. From my own records in London these show passenger occupancy requirements as 52% of all hirings are only 1 passenger, 34% 2 passengers, 12% 3 passengers. On that basis it is possible to understand that expensive vehicles with large seating capacity are possibly unsuitable for use as taxis, and smaller less expensive vehicles would be more appropriate.

But the problem is that you tend to get more lucrative long-distance runs if you have a larger capacity vehicle, and this isn't accomodated in your methodology.

Also, at the ranks larger groups tend to walk back to larger vehicles, whereas this rarely happens with the standard vehicles.

Me, four drunken idiots are more than enough at times, so I prefer my car

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Hello TDO,
I am afraid I disagree with your assumptions. My own observations are empirical, as I have kept such a record over several years. Distance has never been a factor in the equation, the requirement for a taxi is solely to convey that passenger to a destination. If the hirer wants a specialised vehicle they do not hire a Taxi, they obtain the service of a supplier who does cater for their specialised needs - PHV.

Well, yes, but I'm talking about areas where drivers have a choice of vehicle, in which case the passengers clearly have a choice as well, and they tend to exercise it.

Whether it's demand influencing supply or vice versa, it doesn't matter, what matters is that the driver has to weigh up the pros and cons of the various seating configurations, which you can't do in London.

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Getting a larger cab TDO does not always work, In the borders the punters still think a 6 seater costs more if they are on there own,
and the way they work here is 1 to 4 normal cab cost, 5 to 6, 50% more
remind me not to get a Caren's as it looks like a 6 seater when it ain't the number of punters that walk past and get a saloon when its at the front of the rank can [edited by admin] you off some times, its the same for anyone who has a 6 seater
Thats another moan it should be made law that the punter must take the first cab on any rank.

Yes, there are pros and cons - me, I don't like them.

And of course people walk past the big vehicles to get into a saloon. So you've waited about an hour and someone walks past an eight-seater to get into your saloon to go a few hundred yards up the road.

So they've naffed you off, and the driver of the eight-seater as well, unless, of course, he knows they're not going very far.

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