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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:13 pm 
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ALI T wrote:
flood the market?????
with what chipper! empty cabs that sit at his door??? :lol: :lol: :lol:

btw thier is no local godfathers or otherwise stop reading the gutter press.


you just dont have a clue whats even going on in your own back yard do you Ali and when did the financial times become cutter press LOL


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skippy41 wrote:
If everyone was an owner operator there would be no need for a base, just use your cab like I do, using call divert, i have survived for 29 years this way, with a mixture of phone and street work


you dont work in edinburgh skippy so not quite the same thing sorry to say


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gusmac wrote:

There would be little to gain from accumulating plates in an unrestricted market, chipper and anyone doing it would stick out like a sore thumb.
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do you think that worries them and if they are up to no good the police will already know about them anyway.
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These new powers will give councils, police and taxman all he needs to check any aspect of any booking operation, including 1 or 2 vehicle operations.


well you have to hope so as these people aint daft and would have been caught already if the were.


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An end to seagulling.............unless a driver can say someone phoned his mobile ?

It will defo help, but I can't see anything there stopping Glasgow PH working in Edinburgh. :?

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gusmac wrote:
Also, couldn't councils attach a condition to these licences, to the effect that only vehicles licenced by the same council be operated?

I suppose they could, but when challenged surely someone will say if that's what the gov wanted then that's what they would have said.

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Does every thread in this section have to end up taking about quotas?

IMO these changes to the act are as important as any changes there have been since the act came about.

I think it will lead to a better class of PH operator, cos if they are iffy they wont be able to operate. :D

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Paisley Buddie wrote:
An end to seagulling.............unless a driver can say someone phoned his mobile ?

It will defo help, but I can't see anything there stopping Glasgow PH working in Edinburgh. :?


I can :wink:

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chip you believe what ever is presented to you, i dont.

i remember the powers that be stating that cd/dvd's being sold at the market that the proceeds where going to organised crime.

aye right mare like plasma tv and the odd holiday.
and i know this for a fact. :lol:

organised crime doesnt exsist in edinburgh.chip.

just a few thugs,nothing more.playing at being business men.....were have i heard that b4 :lol:

oh unless you mean dodging tax as being a crime.
if thats the case,then im afraid we have to disagree on what crime really is


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anyway chip flood the market with what exactly???

if the godfather of scotland (lets call him the jockfather) wants to launder money by having lots a taxi's sitting at his door going rusty then who gives a cheet it doesnt affect me or you.

or maybe you can enlighten us as to why it would affect us :lol:


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gusmac wrote:
Sussex wrote:
Paisley Buddie wrote:
An end to seagulling.............unless a driver can say someone phoned his mobile ?

It will defo help, but I can't see anything there stopping Glasgow PH working in Edinburgh. :?


I can :wink:


40 miles :?: :?: :?:


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ALI T wrote:
gusmac wrote:
Sussex wrote:
Paisley Buddie wrote:
An end to seagulling.............unless a driver can say someone phoned his mobile ?

It will defo help, but I can't see anything there stopping Glasgow PH working in Edinburgh. :?


I can :wink:


40 miles :?: :?: :?:


That as well. :lol:

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Effective from 16th Nov 2009, according to this


http://www.oqps.gov.uk/legislation/ssi/ssi2009/draft/sdsi_9780111002568_en_1[/url]


In my opinion the licensing of booking offices could have waited, the priority should have been closing any perceived loopholes that allow 'executive/novelty/limousines vehicles' to operate. The lack of licensing in relation to those services leaves customers open to potentially unsafe, uninsured vehicles with potentially unsafe dangerous unchecked drivers


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Paisley Buddie wrote:
The lack of licensing in relation to those services leaves customers open to potentially unsafe, uninsured vehicles with potentially unsafe dangerous unchecked drivers

Thankfully the Road Safety Act binned the unlicensed loophole down here. Lets hope you don't have to wait another 20 years + to follow suit.

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ALI T wrote:
anyway chip flood the market with what exactly???

if the godfather of scotland (lets call him the jockfather) wants to launder money by having lots a taxi's sitting at his door going rusty then who gives a cheet it doesnt affect me or you.

or maybe you can enlighten us as to why it would affect us :lol:


We've got a Jockfather in Dundee with over a hundred cars which work out of his office & he doesn't seem to have a problem getting drivers and Dundee has been de-regulated for 10 years. So trust me his fleet of cars aren't sitting rusting at his front door they are out taken a share our bread and butter.

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ALI T wrote:
anyway chip flood the market with what exactly???

if the godfather of scotland (lets call him the jockfather) wants to launder money by having lots a taxi's sitting at his door going rusty then who gives a cheet it doesnt affect me or you.

or maybe you can enlighten us as to why it would affect us :lol:


We've got a Jockfather in Dundee with over a hundred cars which work out of his office & he doesn't seem to have a problem getting drivers and Dundee has been de-regulated for 10 years. So trust me his fleet of cars aren't sitting rusting at his front door they are out taken a share our bread and butter.


very good who's driving them :?:


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