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You have one lazy bassstard of a licensing officer.....

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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!

You should be applying for new ranks everywere especially where they have existing pay-and-display

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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!

We have at present a massive building project going on in the City - new shopping precinct etc, so whenever they need space we end up losing ranks, unfortunately we have lost about 4 ranks and in addition we have about another 300 plates on the road. On a Saturday night when the police want everyone home we can park on top of one another and nothing is said, but the rest of the week all they seem to want to do is to keep on moving us on - but nowhere to go!

They give us the odd rank - but nowhere near any business

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

Inundate them with applications for new ranks on the grounds of public safety

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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!

All councils have a constitution.. check what your one says about speaking at Committee meetings...... or contact the licensing committees Clarke and ask that person what the council's rules are regarding speaking to the committee...... hidden away in a lot of councils constitution's is a little clause ..... that can State something like..... if you raised a petition of 25 members of the public of that city.... then the chairperson of the committee has to allow you five minutes to speak, just keep going back again at every licensing committee meeting

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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!

Please explain the idea of applying for ranks on the grounds of public safety.

Because here in Brum we are tearing our hair out trying to get ranks. It's the only bit that we regularly fail on & generally get nowhere. The last set of ranks were applied for in October/November 2006 & only now are we getting some of those instated.

Any help would be appreciated.

We applied for a rank outside a popular bar/gig venue; not really a club. PH have ranked outside 10-15 vehicles long for years. We apply for a rank outside. Venue owner tells council he does not want the rank outside. (Gets a good weekly bung from PH operator; our rank would probably cost him £20K per annum out of his back pocket in cash). So, what do the council do? They mark our rank outside the venue, but on the other side of the road, so that PH can continue to stand & ply for hire, right outside the front doors of the venue!!!

That's Brum for you!!!

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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.

If thats the case tell them your a minority...you should get thousands of pounds sent your way and perhaps even a translator for council meetings?

CC

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

I did a little bit of nosing and lo and behold the two (slightly different variation) !) Cardiff Taxi association? 2) Cardiff Hackney association are both registered with "Companies House" at the same address of a Hackney driver (two weeks) after an attempt to set up another association.

Meeting took place on the 3/7/2008 - registrations took place on the 17/07/2008 - weird to say the least.

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

We notice the debate on Driver representation, and would advise normally Associations lack political clout and influence. We believe and prove frequently that when dealing with Political bodies [councils, Governments etc] it is always the best tactic to deal with the politicians, if they are Labour we will undoubtedly be able to meet and negotiate directly with them, normally successfully. If they are outside that realm, then they are of course extremely vulnerable too our INDUSTRIAL and MEDIA influence. Advice such as having a quite word with the Town Clerk who might give you 5 minutes to speak is puerile; councils only respect and respond to both political and financial strength. The GMB has a body called the National Organising Committee for Professional Drivers Branches nation wide, it has full and part time officers who have the ability to influence driver issues nationwide, in the area being referred to we also have the 3 local MPs associated with us the GMB. If your serious about solving these problems contact either of the two officers listed below.

Mick Hildreth on mickhildrethgmbpdb@hotmail.com – 07814 032002

Terence Flanagan on tpflanagan@hotmail.com - 07958 275 339

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Mick Hildreth (07814 032002)
GMB PDB P39 Southern Region Branch Secretary
mick.hildreth@gmbtaxis.org.uk
www.gmbpdb.org.uk

I'd probably contact the former, opposed to the latter.

When's this new forum starting MrBB?

Hi Mr GBC,

Hope your keeping well, I'm hopeful that our new site will be up and running in the very near future.

Regards
BB

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Mick Hildreth (07814 032002)
GMB PDB P39 Southern Region Branch Secretary
mick.hildreth@gmbtaxis.org.uk
www.gmbpdb.org.uk

Very well MrBB thank you.

I look forward to it, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm missing Terry's little takes on life.

Maybe this will help.

http://www.korea-dpr.com/

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