Taxi Driver Online

Indeed he did, but everyone seems to be a tad touchy of late.

Including the APE.

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IDFIMH

If you do a search on this company, you will find that on 12/03/2009, the following record was made:


Name RAYWOOD EUROPE LIMITED Number 03460767

Date Description
12/03/2009 Dissolution (first Gazt)

Ask Raywood about the SW London 300 car minicab company who was brought to its knees trying to get it to work.

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"Where to, Guv'?. Na sorry not going my way"

Oh no poor old Alex is going to get another e-mail now.

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Name & Registered Office:
RAYWOOD EUROPE LIMITED
THE GABLES
OLD MARKET STREET
THETFORD
NORFOLK
IP24 2EN
Company No. 03460767


Status: Active - Proposal to Strike off
Date of Incorporation: 05/11/1997

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
7260 - Other computer related activities
Accounting Reference Date: 30/06
Last Accounts Made Up To: 30/06/2007 (SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 30/04/2009
Last Return Made Up To: 05/11/2007
Next Return Due: 03/12/2008 OVERDUE
Last Members List: 05/11/2007
Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
23/02/1998 TAYVIN 95 LIMITED

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

How many more companies out there have nearly been bought to their knees by other data companies promising the world but delivering nothing?

Question is how many taxi companies failed over the years with or without using data systems? From where I sit I see companies grow, shrink, take over others and sell up that’s just the way it is in the trade. To me it seems the biggest cause of failure is down to either just plain bad management or loosing the enthusiasm to keep moving forward. We tell people that technology can help a business to expand but ultimately, the key to success is how they run their business.

Bill, since we went on the Data Route with Mercury our earnings have shrunk, our mileage has increased our customer base has shrunk plus we have many many many disgruntled drivers who are ready for throwing in the towel. We were better off on pen and paper, you could see where the cars were dropping therefore you could get the driver to do a back run, on data we don't get that. We can have several cars in one area clear but it will drag a car 5 miles to do a job where several cars are clear.

I've worked with several systems in my 20 odd years of cab driving one being yours and beleive me one beats them all hands down, that system being pen and paper.

Sounds like poor management of a system to me. how can pen and paper ever be better if you have more than 20 cars. It takes so long to give all your jobs out yet data does it in a fraction of a second. A system will work if drivers give their input and operators listen and tweak accordingly.

You can only tweak it so much then your banging your heads against the wall the bidding system is turned off, when you bid for a job it says Auto Dispatch is turned off you are not allowed to bid for the job, it just gives the job out in order no matter where you are you get the job, the job could be 5 miles away and only going round the corner minimum £2.80, there could be 3 cars in that area clear but you have travelled 5 miles for the job then travelled 5 miles back to the rqnk total 10 miles for £2.80.

fit trackers and go live online tracking.............66p a day per vehicle

http://www.quartix.net/

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

How does bidding work?

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

We have bidding available on our Autocab system but it wasn't turned on at installation. I think everyone's forgotten it exists now.

Would it be worthwhile our turning it on?

Basically you look in other zones for work by pressing the i button, and if you see any you can bid for it using the * key, the system asks you to plot using #s. dont know if its any different on newer systems. We find not many use it, and if the dispatcher needs you to travel they will send you any way!

On ours you have the Hot Jobs screen up and an outstanding job pops up you highlight the job and press the "Bid" button and if your fast enough you get it You can set the bidding radius so cars at Gatwick can't bid for a "Town Centre" job. Advantages you get the job covered disadvantages you have to be quick




Mercury has real time tracking

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Life? Don't talk to me about life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjm2eslm6hI

This is total rubbish in my opinion, All systems are only as good as the people who set them up, the more care and attension your managers take doing this the better your system will work, so long as the managers know what they are doing. We had 20 cars and 25 drivers prior to going computerised in 1994 doing approx 1500 jobs a week, no other company's in our area had ever run more than this due to the lack of available talk time on the radio. We now run 110 cars with 180 drivers, and do approx 10,000 jobs per week, we simply couldn't do this using pen and paper with the only form of despatch being voice, thank the lord for data/gps and computerised booking and despatch!