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If cabbies want to get their voice heard then protesting alongside truckers is NOT the way

Any protest should be wholly seperate and clearly identifiable as a taxi/PH protest and there are several ways to do it

1) A 1 hour rolling roadblock on every major motorway dual carriageway in Britain this would have to be organised on a town/city by town/city basis

2) Publicly imposing a ban on every exucutive of every major oil company from all taxis

3) A 24 hour strike on a bank holiday weekend perhaps or a work to rule for 24 hours in which only essential journeys to from Doctors/hospitals etc undertaken but no trips to/from train stations bus stations airports etc to remind this government that taxis are an ESSENTIAL element of the public transport infrastructure


Very difficult to organise but a few thoughts on the matter

A big sticking point with truckers is watching euro-truckers coming into the UK, with 1500 ltrs of french derv onboard, dropping in the UK, doing other jobs in the UK, not paying UK fuel duties/vat or UK RFL (can be £2000 a year) and going back without buying UK fuel and running at cheaper rates than the UK firms can run at (even though euro-derv has gone up a lot)

cant quite see that happening with taxis somehow, plus they only get 8mpg ......so you can see how and extra 1p/ltr can hurt

dont forget the vat too, how many PH/hackney owners are vat registered?

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