Taxi Driver Online

and you called me sad Geoff, for [edited by admin] sake I'm not even contributing to this thread yet you take every oppertunity to call me upside down.

It shows how much of a man you really are, you are quite obviously a spoon and will in future be refered to as such.

you didnt know the answer at least nige tried!

bless him hes worth 10 of you.

by the way for those of you that quotes the sun when you think that it suits your case but ignores it when it disagrees with your stance maybe I had better explain something

the newspaper industry is in crisis with heavy falls in readership, this is caused by the yellowlinnes outside many newsagents and the absence of someone to deliver the news.

round here you can pick up free copies of newspapers on first bus in the morning called metro.

so agreat chunk do not read the news but get it from tv, and the internet.

today the cartel leader has announced that it cannot increase production of oil its not the simplest thing to do there are all sorts of geological and manpower problems of doing so, added to this is the massive increase in oil required to service rapidly developing china.

now there will be the optimists that belives this gives us long term oppertunity, the pessemists that belive we will be wiped out and those who stick thier head in the sand and think keep heads down and all will be ok.

planned for I believe we will have massive opportunity but just watch as oppertunity arrives someone somewhere in our trade will oppose it.

oil prices eased on the market today, and the stock market rallied to celebrate.

the only person to blame for high prices is that robbing get gordon brown he needs another kick up the ass like he did in 2000.
if that had not happened fuel would be over £1.00 a litre now its high taxes no crude prices that dictate the price in the uk

82p a litre in uk
48p a litre in spain

i thought we were in europe to benefit the same as every one else in the eu

i DO THINK THAT YOU OUGHT TO STUDY THIS AND NOT OPORTION BLAME UNTIL you understand the problem.

when the conservatives were in office they put on a fuel escalator beccause they could see far too much traffic was using the roads if you like price it off

now this other world market problem is not the same, my complaint isnt about the price as such but the scarcity that it represents

now we as taxi drivers are bloody good at shooting ourselves in the foot, if someone proposed tomorow that we jam the roads we would.

yet high fuel prices are good for us!

you dont have a cat in hells chance of pricing people off the road they are gonna pay what ever it is, gov use it as an excuse to make more money, i was proud to be a trucker when the country was brought to its knees because of a greedy government gordon brown is to blame, you must be a labour supporter, they always blame the last lot but they have had plenty of time to put it right but havnt.

I think one of the points he was trying to make is that high petrol prices force other motorist's off the road. Which means less traffis for us to put up with and also more people not using cars so therefore more customers. At the end of the day we can just put our prices up to compensate for fuel price rise.

yes they have they have abolished the fuel escalator by the way I am a Tory member

you have got this one all wrong!

and they are trying to deal with the lorry driver situation.

Gordon Brown is not greedy and is trying to work out the solution.

your blame is misplaced

high fuel prices is good for us, scarce fuel is not.

got it all wrong? dont think so, and why are you blaming the lorry driver, are you the sort who blames P/H drivers for the state of this industry as well. all gordon brown has done is put up taxes and installed new ones, with nothing to show for it NHS is in trouble SCHOOLS are, infact just about everything else is in this country is going down the swanny but us mugs are still paying through the nose for it.
If you knew what a 44 Tonne truck costs to run and how much it earned per mile, and it is know where near what we get paid a mile then you might understand why they want to protest about the cost of fuel and i would back them.

and how would you put your prices up barnsley, when you cant even get a decent rate for what you are doing now? £35 for manchester airport and .35p a mile for NHS work, our rate for man airport is £100 and i am not much further away from it than you are

tap your keyboard when you have read the article, I did not blame the lorry driver but said the government were working to solve the problem (that being the advantage foreign drivers get with cheap fuel, doing locals on that fuel that is decimating the industry)

and yes as you mention it I do blame rightfully the state of our industry on private hire how peceptive of you.

but it means people like you can have a job because you would make a lousy politician. the tax burden is hardly higher than the last government and we have loads of brand new schools.

again I say the blame you have is misplaced.

Why not just do something else?

i am, i now drive a P/H vehicle, but at least the truck industry is organised unlike this industry which is in a shambolic mess which is in need of a revamp across the board so every one runs to the same rules and regulations where ever they are

it took time but sense was given at last.