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EWS Redundancies!

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In a further pre-Christmas blow, the Doncaster-based freight-rail company EWS yesterday announced it is to cull 530 jobs

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and probably somewhere an operators licence


Thats good.....but you cant sub contract PH work :shock:

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Basically the place where the call is received must have a PH Op's license, and provide a driver with a vehicle all licensed by the same local authority.

The case is on here somewhere, but I cant find it! :oops:

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Basically the place where the call is received must have a PH Op's license, and provide a driver with a vehicle all licensed by the same local authority.

The case is on here somewhere, but I cant find it! :oops:

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So if a call is placed here for a ph taxi to pick up in Oxford then it would have to be a licenced vehicle from here that has to do the job it couldn't be covered by a firm in Oxford. So how are companies like cabfind getting away with it why isn't anybody doing anything about it.

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So if a call is placed here for a ph taxi to pick up in Oxford then it would have to be a licenced vehicle from here that has to do the job it couldn't be covered by a firm in Oxford. So how are companies like cabfind getting away with it why isn't anybody doing anything about it.


Thats it in one.....according to PH rules.

But not the same with HC

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So how are companies like cabfind getting away with it why isn't anybody doing anything about it.



You only answered half the question what about the last bit

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So how are companies like cabfind getting away with it why isn't anybody doing anything about it.



You only answered half the question what about the last bit


Because its legal with HC? I could say I dont know.....but its also greed I guess.

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So how are companies like cabfind getting away with it why isn't anybody doing anything about it.



You only answered half the question what about the last bit


Because its legal with HC? I could say I dont know.....but its also greed I guess.

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Not all the work covered by Cabfind is HC in fact I'd be surprised if more than 30% of it was. The operations for Cabfind are based at the Davy Liver Wirral offices which is Wirral Satellite a private hire company. Is it that the regulations are perhaps full of loop holes so it is easy to operate companies like this were you are basically being paid to book taxis on other companies behalf

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Elite Taxis of Leicester have gone into administration owing taxi and private hire companies across the country thousands of pounds.

The company carried out booking services for EWS railways, but lost the account at the beginning of November 08.

Miraculously a new company has started from the same address has within hours of the liquidation.

And I wonder how many mug radio firms will be only too pleased to take further work from them? :roll: :roll:

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Elite Taxis of Leicester have gone into administration owing taxi and private hire companies across the country thousands of pounds.

The company carried out booking services for EWS railways, but lost the account at the beginning of November 08.

Miraculously a new company has started from the same address has within hours of the liquidation.

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If you take on credit accounts make sure you know who you are dealing with.

Its easy to get credit accounts but getting them to pay is something else.

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