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Hi this is Bill, some know me and some don't - this is what I have found out regarding station taxis and national express. If you put a car on now (before the 1st of May) it can be any colour and it will be able to stay on while those nice people at station taxis have the license to run the station portico. However, after the 1st of May if you have an accident or have your car written off (God forbid!) you will find that you have to put a black car on.

Now what confuses me is that Tom Brown took York council to court and won his case on his taxi colour, well done Tom!!! and now, station taxis and national express have said "stuff you" and "stuff the courts" and "stuff anyone else, you will do what we say" far be it for me to say anything derogatory, however I do think station taxis and national express should 1. Look after trains 2. Get work for cars in station taxis and 3. Leave the bloody taxi trade to run itself like it should, and up to recently, always has done.

As we all know, York City council have a set of rules and regulations that your car should be clean, tidy and well maintained, we run by laws regarding our licence, for God's sake why don't they let us run to the regulations that are already in place and leave us to get on with the job and let politicans do politics and taxi drivers do taxi driving and stuff the rest!!

Bill

Leave the bloody taxi trade to run itself like it should, and up to recently, always has done.

I have to say, you probably are a very nice man, but may i ask when do you actually do any Taxi driving? Because you must spend 24 hrs a day on this sight.
And yes i have also seen the contracts for the North East line, from Edinburgh to Peterbourgh, shirts/ties/dark trousers/etc etc, yes i agree.
Private hire on the rank within York station, will never happen. private hire on private land hidden from public view and a legal booking system in place, not anything that can be remotely construed as touting. York had already been threatened with this about 10 yrs ago, and at that time Station Taxi's, told them to do it then, did they? No! Could they? No! Newcastle at the time did the same.
So with greatest respect Captain Cab, i find my self thinking you must be part of the current team of muppets that run station Taxi's at the moment, who do nothing but sell the trade out to the likes National Express, because of there own self indulgent interests, and the belief that one outer office contract is the Holy Grail.

Ok Captain, i give up with you, your right and your right, it's hard to debate with someone so closed minded and can only quote common sense, with regards the the contract, someone with your insight should have realized the contract that was allowed to look at for a week, (several years ago) was GNER, or was you not even in the job then? and the paint on your badge isn't dry yet, like The Thinker, and yes times have moved on, shame the so called know alls in this job don't do the same.

Climbing up chimmney stacks to clean them, selling the Big Issue, cleaning shoes . . .

The Oliver of the North.

so captain you are a a taxi driver through and through and as everyone knows all they have to talk about is taxiing shame you should get some other interests in life, not correcting peoples grammer would also help get out and have a few pints watch a football match and find something else to do with yourself

we all have crosses to bear but its good to see you have a sense of humour this loppylugs character writes pretty well and to be fair the truth is in what he says york hackney carriage drivers /owners and rentals never stick together and usually due to apathy amongst us allow halfwits with big egos and no sense to ruin the trade