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Types of issues like what for instance - licensing fees, who knows what who pays what as every where differ as for undercutting then private hire across the board is cheaper. Taking the long way round a route would soon discourage customers from using that firm and as for regulations then i'm sure most authorities would be near enough the same.

You have two neighbouring councils.

Council A has a hard knowledge of the City, the DSA taxi test, a Btec course where drivers take numeracy and literacy modules, and the council have a high threshold in relation to applicants criminal past.

Then you have council B, that area is a rural manor with no street knowledge, no DSA taxi test, no Btec, and the council allows applicants who's criminal pasts preclude them from working in council A.

What you you prefer to see? Drivers in council B flooding council A? Is that the future of the trade we all want? :?

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Sussex wrote:
dagger wrote:
Types of issues like what for instance - licensing fees, who knows what who pays what as every where differ as for undercutting then private hire across the board is cheaper. Taking the long way round a route would soon discourage customers from using that firm and as for regulations then i'm sure most authorities would be near enough the same.

You have two neighbouring councils.

Council A has a hard knowledge of the City, the DSA taxi test, a Btec course where drivers take numeracy and literacy modules, and the council have a high threshold in relation to applicants criminal past.

Then you have council B, that area is a rural manor with no street knowledge, no DSA taxi test, no Btec, and the council allows applicants who's criminal pasts preclude them from working in council A.

What you you prefer to see? Drivers in council B flooding council A? Is that the future of the trade we all want? :?


if your a punter, do you care, so long as you either get home cheaper or just get home...
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if your a punter, do you care, so long as you either get home cheaper or just get home...

If punters had their ways there would be no licensing system.

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Sussex wrote:
dagger wrote:
Types of issues like what for instance - licensing fees, who knows what who pays what as every where differ as for undercutting then private hire across the board is cheaper. Taking the long way round a route would soon discourage customers from using that firm and as for regulations then i'm sure most authorities would be near enough the same.

You have two neighbouring councils.

Council A has a hard knowledge of the City, the DSA taxi test, a Btec course where drivers take numeracy and literacy modules, and the council have a high threshold in relation to applicants criminal past.

Then you have council B, that area is a rural manor with no street knowledge, no DSA taxi test, no Btec, and the council allows applicants who's criminal pasts preclude them from working in council A.

What you you prefer to see? Drivers in council B flooding council A? Is that the future of the trade we all want? :?
I'm not arguing about your points Sussex but your points differ from the points that MR Ali has where he's in the brigade of "Their all robbing our work". As for the BTEC courses most councils allready implement them and the remaining will probably follow. After all that though if their is firms who just drive into towns from other boroughs just to sit around and poach for work then in my opinion thats not on.
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Sussex wrote:
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if your a punter, do you care, so long as you either get home cheaper or just get home...

If punters had their ways there would be no licensing system.



what, we all become limo drivers?... 8)
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I'm not arguing about your points Sussex but your points differ from the points that MR Ali has where he's in the brigade of "Their all robbing our work".

When you are trying to put a point across to the press you can't be too accurate with your wording. :wink:

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Mr Ali seems to forget customers do have a choice; it’s not great if you have no flexibility in today’s market place but its how it is same for all business and tradesman...
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If Milton council are charging more for licences why don't cab and PH owners just get them from the other council and just carry on working, Milton council would then loose all that revenue
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If Milton council are charging more for licences why don't cab and PH owners just get them from the other council and just carry on working, Milton council would then loose all that revenue


But Milton council would still be responsible for enforcement and the money would have to come from tax payers.

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I can see their point, but how do you tell someone not to ring a firm from another area, if I went to say London and needed a cab home there's no way I would pay the £250 a London car would want, I'd bell up my locals and halve that fare, same principle I think.


I'd always do a fellow TDO member a discount Doomy.

Providing you are not going South. :wink:
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If Milton council are charging more for licences why don't cab and PH owners just get them from the other council and just carry on working, Milton council would then loose all that revenue


I spoke to a sandwell driver who takes a kiddy to the same school i go too

his PH plate - £400 mine £120

he rents a radio £85 a week, if he wants his own PH OP licence - £500 - me £80

his LA does the tests, i go to a designated MOT station for a non-mot compliance test if i already have a test, if i tag on a MOT it adds £3 to my bill

if he has a brand new car it still needs a MOT, i wouldnt here, not for 3 years


the differences are a nonsense, 1 trade, it should all be the same

(but not at his LAs prices of course)
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