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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:38 pm 
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if the bar is too low


You're not that tall? Besides, you'd have to get your wallet out if you went up to the bar. :D


Must be a scots thing :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:43 pm 
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captain cab wrote:
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if the bar is too low


You're not that tall? Besides, you'd have to get your wallet out if you went up to the bar. :D


Must be a scots thing :lol:

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We Scots dont do wallets...we have Note Vices to keep our readies in..


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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:46 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
We Scots dont do wallets...we have Note Vices to keep our readies in..


GBC seems to have developed it into a fine art :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:18 am 
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alexnetcom wrote:
The advantage of working with East-European drivers ist hat they are trained,smart,disciplined,humble and financially-motivated to work 10 to 12 hours a day, including week-ends and legal holidays.

We have its own staff in ROMANIA who train driver candidates for the UK. Does not recruit European drivers with any convictions for driving offences.

All European candidates undergo a country of origin Criminal Record Check as a matter of course.We does not train or supply any European driver that has any blemish on their Criminal history. Romanian drivers are trained on the continent in the knowledge of the city or town they intend to work in the UK.

They must also be able to speak communicable English along with being able to write in English. Most if not all of our romanian recruits have been educated to a high standard with many holding academic degrees. The UK is attractive to recruits because of the high earning potential. None of the candidates supplied can be described as work shy.

Their culture makes them good recruits as they excel in the workplace and are committed to the taxi company they join. As the European standard of driving is well below that of the UK the main area of training for English taxi businesses to focus on is to improve their driving ability.

Reference for our services is avalable.


I suppose anyone who seeks a better financial future will aspire to being all of the things you mention above but me being a councilor on a licensing committee is only interested in whether or not they as a person are fit and proper to to be given a taxi license and whether or not they are capable of passing the quality control threshold? In that respect I would ask them the same question I ask you, which is "what is your interpretation of the "compellable area" and which sections of which act relate to the compellable area"?

Based on your submission that eastern europeans are trained to a high standard then you should have no problem in answering correctly such a simple question.

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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:40 am 
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alexnetcom wrote:
The advantage of working with East-European drivers ist hat they are trained,smart,disciplined,humble and financially-motivated to work 10 to 12 hours a day, including week-ends and legal holidays.


You fail to point out the disadvantages of working with eastern European taxi drivers, which I might add have been well documented.

Such as poor communication skills that have lead to passengers being driven to destinations miles from where they wanted to be. Added to that the poor driving standards that have on occasions been the cause of needless deaths in circumtances that were tantamount to wreckless and irresponsible driving.

I don't believe most Eastern Europeans understand the fundementals of the taxi trade and neither do those teaching them.

A partial command of the English language is not good enough because the British public are entitled to expect a lot more in the way of communication skills when using public and private hire transport.

I expect my taxi driver to be skilled enough to resolve my problem when I am unsure of the destination where I want to be.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:25 am 
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Cos the 'Transparency International report' says otherwise. :?
My point is how can any employer trust any criminal checks from the most corrupt country in the EU? :?


Be calm ! Romanian CRB is for my serlections.Thereupon we complete the UK CRB form. No an owner he don't takes drivers in UK a feather don't is done a verification to Liverpoole Criminal Record Bureau.


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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:53 am 
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[quote="flightcabs" There's sharks in Ro but there's also sharks in london.
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For the past monthes I work with British company, Level3, as another companionships from UK ,charge £1000-£1500 per driver. I select the peoples, prepare paperwork, and my partners just escort the customers in Romania. Sent drivers to some companionships from Hull, Norwich, Crawley. My partners took the money front-end and forgot to else paid the my money, represent about 25% from how much charge they. Don't certified they CRB's. :D

Now I work directly, without intermediaries and the price for customers reduced with 50%.


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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:57 am 
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That's because all the low life from over there have settled here already. Perhaps we should all migrate over there and leave the Gypsy's to pillage Britain? :shock:


Comming from Romany stock myself (that's Romany not Romanian for those who don't understand the difference) - I really take offence at that.

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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:38 am 
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Most of the people I meet on my travels in Eastern Europe are very friendly, polite and well mannered.



That's because all the low life from over there have settled here already. Perhaps we should all migrate over there and leave the Gypsy's to pillage Britain? :shock:


They'll only follow us back over there when we've set up the health service, social security etc etc.


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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:19 pm 
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flightcabs wrote:
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That's because all the low life from over there have settled here already. Perhaps we should all migrate over there and leave the Gypsy's to pillage Britain? :shock:


Comming from Romany stock myself (that's Romany not Romanian for those who don't understand the difference) - I really take offence at that.






Perhaps you should spend a day at a central London Police station and watch as the countless offspring of these scumbags walk through the door time and time again.

Are you part of the Gypo patronisation society? Lend us a pair of your rose tinted glasses. 8)

They contribute fook all to society, and never have done . . . that's if you don't count prison officer posts that they've created.

Wake up son.


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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:22 pm 
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Nigel wrote:

They'll only follow us back over there when we've set up the health service, social security etc etc.



Aye. :sad:

What's going free this week Mr Taxpayer?

Nothing? Oh well we'll steal it anyway and then claim you're all racists because you don't like us theiving gypsies and our crap we leave lying around the British countryside.


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 Post subject: Re: Yes I can
PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:41 pm 
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alexnetcom wrote:
[quote="flightcabs" There's sharks in Ro but there's also sharks in london.

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For the past monthes I work with British company, Level3, as another companionships from UK ,charge £1000-£1500 per driver. I select the peoples, prepare paperwork, and my partners just escort the customers in Romania. Sent drivers to some companionships from Hull, Norwich, Crawley. My partners took the money front-end and forgot to else paid the my money, represent about 25% from how much charge they. Don't certified they CRB's. :D

Now I work directly, without intermediaries and the price for customers reduced with 50%.



Is there a Translator in the house?....I cant read Pigeon English!


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Still, if was'nt for the non-english speaking London Minicab drivers who don't have a clue where they're going or how to ask their passengers directions, I would'nt be doing so well.
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