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Just what I want....another taxi I wont dream of buying

pretty good though

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Thats the cab unmasked

My spies tell me the same goes for ConCab and Radio Taxis.
At least Dailacab is still owned by it's drivers.
With the building societies that demultralised being taken over or nationalised I wonder what will happen to ConCab and Radio Taxis during this recession?

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Charlton's lost past http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFKWGlrze0
London's future? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rants.html

I would imagine if they keep taking on more and more cabs they will do very well.

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Capt

Still suits me at the moment (just) but since the other radio circuits appear to be suffering perhaps the economic slow down is having an influence. I do know however, that despite this DAC have still been recruiting heavily during the summer. What must the new guys think, when I joined you were pretty much guaranteed three jobs an hour through the night now its more like 1 every hour and ten minutes after midnight.

Perhaps a high turnover of drivers will stop us uniting and overthrowing the Government, sorry I mean our chairman (wrong battle).

The last chairman of Radio Taxis was Dave Darling and stood for re-election in 1991 or 1992. He increased the number of drivers during the slump,defending this by saying the circuit needed to expand...
He was not elected and disappeared from the Radio Taxis scene.

Radio circuits should not recruit when there is a downturn in work and should keep the driver/job ratio the same. This was always the case and this is what happens in industry.They don't recruit or replace people who have left.
DAC is STILL mutual and it's members/shareholders can do this.
This is not the case with ConCab and Radio Taxis.

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Charlton's lost past http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFKWGlrze0
London's future? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rants.html

Haven't a couple of those caught fire as well?

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Grandad,

My own Radio Circuit 'Street hails holdings ltd' is very good.

There's a good supply of work, and they have all the street and station rank contracts, and the best bit? It's the cheapest circuit in London.

here here GBC, having been on radio circuits for the last 10 or so years (8 on radio taxis) i'm currently on Xeta but since they upped their subs from a tolerable £12 a week to £20 a week at a stroke with no increase in work i'm beginning to question the value for money i'm really getting out of it.

Considering the current financial climate, there is still a fair amount of work around, it's no doubt quieter than last year but so far, providing i do an extra hour or 2 a night i'm not doing too badly........for that at least i have to be thankful.

What the next year to 18 months will bring us though, we shall have to wait and see.

I would imagine as the work gets less & less quite a few driver's will vote with their feet & book a "strip-out" Is it still worth £140+ per month

Exactly, if things get a bit iffy, then just work an extra hour or two a day.

Perhaps that's one of the few bonuses of the trade i.e. unlimited overtime.

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IDFIMH

No thats not good enough, just a cheap debating trick.
Let me know what is so wrong with my post

Calm down dear, it's only a forum . . .

I think the Captain was alluding to the fact you seem to have absolute faith in these alternative vehicles which the lads in the counties have been driving for years, opposed to London where (in the last few decades) we have only ever had the choice of LTI or a Metrocab.

He further hinted that the WAV conversions have as many problems, if not more, than the current choice of Taxi.
Given that I can't see the PCO licensing saloon cars as Taxi's, we'd be buying one of the aforementioned WAV conversions, and a whole lot of new problems may arise from that.

See thats better than " theres so much wrong with that statemen".

As you may have notice, I have change my opinion of the merc having been shown round one, as is my prerogative.
You may remember from the other forum I was dead against it. Although it is still not a perfect model for a London Taxi, I personally think it is head and shoulders above the TX 4.
I do realise there is a problem with the back steering setup not coming under the makers warrantee. But I am sure this will be sorted out.
I think it is fair to say that we will see more people carriers entering the Hackney carriage market over the next few years by other producers.
This probably would not have happened if LTI had got their act together and carried on producing a vehicle as good as the TX 1.
I would be willing to bet, there are hundreds more drivers ready to accept a different style of vehicle now, after the crisis we have just had to face with the TX 4.
I remember all the Luddites in the trade when the first acceptable mobile phones came out saying " they should be banned, I'll never have one of those" .
Now virtually everyone of them has one. In fact, I don't know of one driver who hasn't got a cell phone.
Then we saw the emergence of Sat-nav. " They will be the end of the trade, who needs to do the knowledge, they should be banned" was heard all over the shelters.
Now there are Cabby's of seventy who have bought them and wouldn't be without one.

I stand by what I said about the Metro cab. I never like it, but because of it, we saw the emergence of the TX series.
Perhaps now with this Merc, LTI will go back to the drawing board.
They must be encouraged to investigate what the driver wants not just the passenger. After all we are the ones who have to pay for the vehicle and spent our working lives driving them.
As a Tall person I was gutted when the took three inches from the drivers compartment in the TX 1 to give more room in the back of the TX 2.
Now I not only have back problems but knee problems where my left knee is pressed up against the dash all night long.

Sussex wrote:-

''Perhaps that's one of the few bonuses of the trade i.e. unlimited overtime.''

And one of the many negatives in London are licences issued regardless of demand.
With the downturn,how many licences have been issued in the last 12 months?
My money's on 750.

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Charlton's lost past http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFKWGlrze0
London's future? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rants.html