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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:28 am 
Gus, £300 pw isn't outrageous for a full time car, if you're paying £300 pw for a shift car then I guess it is, locally the going rates are £140 days, £200 nights and £270 full time, given the fact that even a shrewd Indy will cost £120 pw just to run, the profit isn't stunning is it.


And for the HC arguement, where are all the cars going to rank if numbers are allowed to increase?


The whole idea is a HC caters for the instant customer who doesn't want to wait, a PHC is a booked ride for those that have the time to wait or just want a cheaper ride.


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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:04 pm 
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Canvasing drivers ?Should it not be you and your messiah who should be doing the canvasing no ? I can only go by the drivers I know and surprise,surprise guess what their opinion of JT and you lot is ??? It doesn't need to be said does it. You know and I know you lot have little if no support from the drivers, hence you have never asked or tried to enter them into your little argument. Easier to call us all stupid hey ! :roll:

right so instead of 99%

its actually 10 of youre mates out of 3500 odd drivers :lol:


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and only 5 of them know the truth but wont admit it,another 3 would take the chance of there own plate even although there ignorant of the facts,the other 2 of them ignore everything you say because they dont like you.

and none of them will admit anything in the company of other drivers baaa baaa

still sure of youre figures btk :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Gus, £300 pw isn't outrageous for a full time car, if you're paying £300 pw for a shift car then I guess it is, locally the going rates are £140 days, £200 nights and £270 full time, given the fact that even a shrewd Indy will cost £120 pw just to run, the profit isn't stunning is it.


It's for a shift and the owner decides which shifts they get. Wanna guess who normally gets the best hours? :sad:


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And for the HC arguement, where are all the cars going to rank if numbers are allowed to increase?

Where do they rank up now?
Half of them would be parked at home, since very few would be double shifted.

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:50 am 
Ali T, the more I reaD YOU THE MORE i KMOW YOU KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN TO PAY £100+ PW for a radio, you are the epitomy of a bitching PH driver who wants more but wants it for free, once you have your way you will work it out that you cannot earn a living and will go back to cutting up lamb doner for drunks, but in your wake you will leave many a person out of pocket and many a punter with a substandard serive, now quit your bitching about equality, equality comes with effort and comitment, 99.9% of cabbies don't want kebab/curry house mentality in our trade, so f**koff back to Turkey and spout your sh*t off to the ppl there, ohh, I forgot, ppl like you are kinda quiet over there incase a you get a carving knife up your arse.


And yeah, I know whats what, I have Turks, Kurds, Albanians for mayes, now if you don'y like the UK, f**koff back where you came from, end of.


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Ali T, the more I read you the more I know you know NOTHING OTHER THAN TO PAY £100+ PW for a radio, you are the epitomy of a bitching PH driver who wants more but wants it for free, once you have your way you will work it out that you cannot earn a living and will go back to cutting up lamb doner for drunks, but in your wake you will leave many a person out of pocket and many a punter with a substandard service, now quit your bitching about equality, equality comes with effort and comitment, 99.9% of cabbies don't want kebab/curry house mentality in our trade, so f**koff back to Turkey and spout your sh*t off to the ppl there, ohh, I forgot, ppl like you are kinda quiet over there incase a you get a carving knife up your arse.


And yeah, I know whats what, I have Turks, Kurds, Albanians for mates, now if you don't like the UK, f**koff back where you came from, end of.


Too drunk to do it properly.


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Ali T, the more I read you the more I know you know NOTHING OTHER THAN TO PAY £100+ PW for a radio, you are the epitomy of a bitching PH driver who wants more but wants it for free, once you have your way you will work it out that you cannot earn a living and will go back to cutting up lamb doner for drunks, but in your wake you will leave many a person out of pocket and many a punter with a substandard service, now quit your bitching about equality, equality comes with effort and comitment, 99.9% of cabbies don't want kebab/curry house mentality in our trade, so f**koff back to Turkey and spout your sh*t off to the ppl there, ohh, I forgot, ppl like you are kinda quiet over there incase a you get a carving knife up your arse.


And yeah, I know whats what, I have Turks, Kurds, Albanians for mates, now if you don't like the UK, f**koff back where you came from, end of.


Too drunk to do it properly.


Another objective post, then?

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Ali T, the more I reaD YOU THE MORE i KMOW YOU KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN TO PAY £100+ PW for a radio, you are the epitomy of a bitching PH driver who wants more but wants it for free, once you have your way you will work it out that you cannot earn a living and will go back to cutting up lamb doner for drunks, but in your wake you will leave many a person out of pocket and many a punter with a substandard serive, now quit your bitching about equality, equality comes with effort and comitment, 99.9% of cabbies don't want kebab/curry house mentality in our trade, so f**koff back to Turkey and spout your sh*t off to the ppl there, ohh, I forgot, ppl like you are kinda quiet over there incase a you get a carving knife up your arse.


And yeah, I know whats what, I have Turks, Kurds, Albanians for mayes, now if you don'y like the UK, f**koff back where you came from, end of.
what ???

alit
alastair turnbull
born and bread in edinburgh

by youre reckoning and logic biased you should fec k off back to an old video game.

never been ph not that it matters but ive been hack for 15 years.

is it me or are ppl picking me up all wrong these days.


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Ali T, the more I reaD YOU THE MORE i KMOW YOU KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN TO PAY £100+ PW for a radio, you are the epitomy of a bitching PH driver who wants more but wants it for free, once you have your way you will work it out that you cannot earn a living and will go back to cutting up lamb doner for drunks, but in your wake you will leave many a person out of pocket and many a punter with a substandard serive, now quit your bitching about equality, equality comes with effort and comitment, 99.9% of cabbies don't want kebab/curry house mentality in our trade, so f**koff back to Turkey and spout your sh*t off to the ppl there, ohh, I forgot, ppl like you are kinda quiet over there incase a you get a carving knife up your arse.


And yeah, I know whats what, I have Turks, Kurds, Albanians for mayes, now if you don'y like the UK, f**koff back where you came from, end of.
what ???

alit
alastair turnbull
born and bread in edinburgh

by youre reckoning and logic biased you should fec k off back to an old video game.

never been ph not that it matters but ive been hack for 15 years.

is it me or are ppl picking me up all wrong these days.




You'll have to ignore that one, the top shelf wrote it and it's not very objective.


I might be reading you wrong anyway from some of your replies to others, but you do seem to be a HCD that wants another 500 ppl to compete with every time you go to work, if thats wrong please say so so it can be cleared up once and for all.


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but you do seem to be a HCD that wants another 500 ppl to compete with every time you go to work,

You miss the point, they/you/me/we already are.

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but you do seem to be a HCD that wants another 500 ppl to compete with every time you go to work,

You miss the point, they/you/me/we already are.



Na, I mean on top of whats already there bud, anyway I didn't really want to get drawn in on this issue again when I came back here, but allowed myself to, anyway appologies to anyone whose been on the other end of one of my aggresive replies since early Weds.


Btw Mark, I fully back you with the desire to get the driver standards up, but I know deep down no matter what they do someone will find a way to cheat the system.


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You mean you don't run the Kebab shop down Broughton Street? :D


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i believe qualified drivers should be given thier own plate .
if they meet the standards who am i ,or anyone else to say that they cant have a public licence to operate thier own taxi.

and what makes it right that they have to pay another driver with the same qualifications as him money to drive that drivers cab.

its just a huge pile of shiete its wrong period.imo


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You mean you don't run the Kebab shop down Broughton Street? :D

are all youre mates that boring
i mean a blog about youre daily goings on.

the princess diaries or what.
dont you get enough of that on the ranks.


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ALI T wrote:
i believe qualified drivers should be given thier own plate .
if they meet the standards who am i ,or anyone else to say that they cant have a public licence to operate thier own taxi.

and what makes it right that they have to pay another driver with the same qualifications as him money to drive that drivers cab.

its just a huge pile of shiete its wrong period.imo


so what if you dont want to run your own taxi some guys like to rent :?: :?:
should the owner of the taxi they drive just give you it for nothing as you are both qualified :?: :?:

oh sorry you could use it as your own persional transport when not working.
no way do i want to be driving about in a taxi when iam not working thats for sure people think they can just jump in. happend to me when i was at the shops one day waiting for the wife to come out with the shopping quite funny the look on the poor womans face when she got told to hop it :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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