Taxi Driver Online

I wish more of the moaners would.

If folks can't make a living out of the trade, then best they leave it to those that can.

Anyone who has been in the trade a while knows it goes up and down. The answer to folks woes is to have reserves when it's up, to cover for when it down.

And of course improve the standards required for drivers and vehicles to make it harder for those wanting to join when the building industry is dead.

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IDFIMH

Why do you think everywhere is Brighton? Brighton is a mega trendy place, London On Sea if you like, money flocks to Brighton so in effect you can't fail really, have a nip up to Mansfield and drive a cab there, then you'll see a difference, lower fares, less punters, try living it somewhere like that, I'm sure you're views wouldn't take long to change.


And are you advocating that unemployed brickies should be kept out of driving cabs? isn't that the same arguement you champion about regulation?

I'm not advocating any one kept out of the game, providing they are 'fit and proper'.

But the higher the standard, the higher entry criteria, the better. I don't want the riff raff in the trade, that's the reason why some folks think we the lowest of the low.

And if having higher and higher standards keeps out the riff raff, then so be it.

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IDFIMH

I agree with that, but it could be read the same way as the other "equal opportunity" posting that goes on here.

Trouble is Mark, you know and I know, you could put all the regs in place and someone will get around them, they would only really work if we had an upstanding society that played the game, but as like I posted in another thread iirc, PH drivers in court couldn't speaky Engleash when it came to answering simple questions, yet they could when it was required to apply for a licence, I simply don't believe that the right type of person would want to drive a cab anymore, so were left with too much unwashed overcharging chaff.

I would say in my area we have far more of the right folks joining than the bad folks.

Maybe that's because certain folks have spent the last 20 years improving standards of vehicle and driver.

Despite the efforts of some who only want more and more drivers to fill their motors and pay their radio fees.

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IDFIMH