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Can anyone give me some advice on health matters that relate particularly to the taxi trade.
My problem is an invasion of parasitic leeches that have wormed their way into the taxi trade, it seems to be a national problem.
The full medical name is: "sussexprivatehirus sadgitus" the bug or leech whines contiuously is a shade of green (envious greenus). There are many varieties all over the country. They attach themselves to a successful trade and the more successful the host the bigger they get, but in the long term their overwhelming greed weekens the host and the viability of both comes into doubt. Outside forces see the weekness and move in, advertising salesmen encircle them, permit agents take savage bites, council inflict restrictions that hinder recovery. It may appear that all PH carry the bug but I have found some that are not parasitic and exist in their own right, but the are hard to spot because they lack the distictive continuous whine.
Has anyone an antedote or an eradicator for the "sussex" type that will not harm the PH that make a valued contribution to the trade.
An urgent solution is needed and research is very expensive please post your credit card details so that I can extract a nominal fee for my reasearch. Thank You.

Yes I believe the cure for the likes of Mr Sussex is a large dose of de-limitation.

Alex

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Chopping your head off will stop a headache, do really think de-reg will be good for anyone except for advertising sales, permit agents etc. It certainly will not be good for drivers, owners and definatley not the rarely mentioned customers.

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Practice for post de-reg.

There is a new pesticide,that is being tested in America.
They reckon it will be on the market in UK,within 2 months.
"Will not be long now,but maybe a little longer".

It is called HEDUPARSE.

Will be manufactured in Sussex,as this is the best area to test.

"Will be longer than I anticipated,but could be soon!"

So are you saying that in the majority of the country that doesn't restrict, cab drivers don't earn?

And when was the last time you met a poor London cabbie?

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It takes years to become a London cabbie, they earn their money, I would not work in the Capital for twice their pay. As for the rest of the country, lets look at the hours, how many drivers could make a living on a 38 hour working week? What other industry would tollerate our working conditions, if we were in a factory heath and safety would close us down for the numbers killed or injured at work. Have you had just one working week when you have not felt at risk at some time from a road accident, aggresive punter, drunken lout walking past the rank, out of control school kid on a contract run, a mentally disturbed passenger on a social services run, one whole week without something, if you have you are extremley lucky, I have not had one in 25 years and I work in the "soft" south. De-reg will reduce quality of service, increase working hours. The OFT report shows in every de-reg area the overall number of vehicles available to the public went down after de-reg. Town centres could not cope with the additional taxis wanting to rank and the outlying areas were no longer serviced. Those are the accepted conclusions of the surveys. In general the old system works for the travelling public.

Are we therefore saying that this trade of ours is in such a poor state that we need to be protected from fair competition.
London has stiff tests to become a driver. They do it right.
High standards they can be met by people if they want too. If we have taxi restrictions on numbers it doesnt matter what standards there is becuase they cant be met.

Yes this trade is in a very poor state and does need protecting, but mainly from itself.
Fair competition is very difficult to define. Restrictions based soley on limiting numbers needs to be fazed out, but how will you attract investors if you make the market too flimsey. Modernisation takes money and no-one is going to put money into a business that has no foundation. Look what de-reg did to the buses, the railways etc.

The steel industry, coal mining, aircraft industry, water, electric, gas, do we have to make the same mistakes over and over again. There is nothing wrong with regulation, it brings stability, consistancey and long term planning. It needs updating sometimes and must be flexible but there is nothing wrong with the principle. If you don't like the rules don't join the club.

If that was the case, then why do some of the biggest names in transport invest heavily in the non-restricted numbers PH trade?

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Apart from the scaremongers who mentions de-reg?

Most of the UK's taxi trade is de-limited at the mo, with more and more councils seeing sense and de-limiting.

If it doesn't work, then why are more councils doing it?

I hear some say that Liverpool and Edinburgh re-restricted, but how many of those plates issued during de-limit were handed back?

That's the £30,000 Liverpool plates, and the £20,000 Edinburgh plates.

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