Jasbar wrote:
1. It degrades drivers - enslaves them, makes them chattels of existing owners - and discriminates against them.
2. It forces drivers to work when there is little demand, clogging up ranks during quiet periods.
3. It forces drivers to work longer hours, increasing tiredness and compromising public safety.
4. Tired drivers withdraw before peak period demand is satisfied, reducing service to the public encouraging them to walk the streets and/or enticing them to take chances with illegal hires.
5. Creates a power group that abuses its privileged market position to maintain discrimination against new market entrants. A complete contradiction of normal market mores and anti-competitive.
6. Stifles enterprise leading to the trade dictating a poor service to the market rather than responding to what the market needs and would pay for.
7. Delivers high rentals that translate directly into higher than necessary fares for a public being ripped off.
8. It denies drivers any real say in shaping their trade, their working environment.
9. It invests inordinate control in the council who conduct themselves as employers rather than licencers charged with ensuring public safety, and allows it to abuse its power to protect its own transport interests - not a function accorded them in Law.
10. High rentals, high fares - a bad deal for drivers and customers.
1. You could argue that this is the case with De-restriction as companies leasing Taxi's and radio's will crop up, charging drivers roughly the same amount as a current rental. Skull has said it himself that when Edinburgh De-restricts he will be quite happy to lease a Taxi from Mc auley, £200 per week he quoted and
to do so
2. This could and most probably will be the case in your De-restricted world except the Standard of driver will be much lower and probably a majority will eh no understande englisheh
3. Well number 3 is self explanatory!!! its bad enough the now but in a De-restricted market god help us how many hours we would need
Aye graft in deed taylor i might need eye openers to keep my eyes open the number of hours i'll need to work
4. De-restriction will kill the market 24 hours a day, all that will happen is the professionalism will go right out the window and an increase in public disorder offences will increase BETWEEN taxi drivers as we all start fighting each other for the bread crumbs De-restriction will cause
5. This is Taylors game opening the door for companies like Ecph to lease Taxi's and radio's and on their terms TAKE it or LEAVE it, aye the result of de-restriction
6.Poor service my a-hole, de-restriction will drive down the service beyond repair, illegal driver numbers will increase 10 fold, the trade will become un-policable, Enterprise!!! De-restriction will take the enterprise factor right out the game as companies like ecph will TELL (dictate) there drivers what they charge, TAKE it or Leave it, example, Airport job yours if you accept 30% less than the market value
7. No different to what will be charged by companies leasing Taxi and radio, but the downside 30% cheaper fares, How the public are being ripped off by the value of rental is beyond me
8. Under De-restriction companies like ecph will yeild massivley more control, the trade at the moment is controlled by the INDIVIDUAL you can't get more control than that
9. All is fair in LAW and public transport we cannot have one controlling over another, there is nothing wrong with regulation that protects all forms of public transport of which keeps the market competition based, A de-restricted Taxi trade would massivley put public safety at more risk than less
10. High rentals have nothing to do with the Tarrif, the cost of Taxi's and their maintainance does, high rentals are a result of greed but are agreed by driver so the driver has CHOICE on wether to accept or not, de-restriction will lead to a take it or leave it attitude by controlling companies like Ecph, as they already do
Now Jim i don't take pills or any kind of medication to counter your mission of which the sole aim is to destroy a perfectly good Edinburgh trade. I will continue to tout my idea for a much higher new application fee to stop the real carpet baggers, i don't mind a level of de-restriction but we need a form of self restriction before total de-restriction, investment is good for our trade it gives us committed investors to provide the best service possible and thats from customer to Taxi.
You will be and alway's will be a man who missed out on the opertunity to operate his own cab, c'mon how much rental have you paid over the years? commercially aware my a-s
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