Taxi Driver Online

Can you tell me how many punters are actually using taxis, in the areas you've mentioned, in your league table?

At the end of the day you can quote what you like, but if punters vote with their feet, you are fecked.

Show me the money £££££££££££££££. . .

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Gary,

What we were looking at was just a minor adjustment of fares, nothing for you to get too excited about.

Do you have any figures to say that areas with a higher starting price than edinburgh dont get any taxi use?
Or is it just a bit of wishful thinking on your part.

As I said whatever had happened, rise, fall, or stay the same, you would have been moaning.

Try and stay calm now

I think the answers are all online for those interested, regarding the methodology of the formula and tbh it's been the same every single time with this issue when it arrives.

Shouldn't you have known this beforehand though!

They identified an increase in our running costs this time around and we will have to absorb them ourselves for the time being at least.

Surely it would be better for some of the drivers who think they are being overcharged to move to a share of the meter, although I would imagine most wouldn't want that, I wouldn't anyway because it's fine the way it is just now.

Just out of interest did you ever work that way, I recall speaking to someone who had driven taxis in the fifties in Edinburgh and that was the way he had done it and he said he had still made good money.

I may add that I'm not in the business of explaining why I think I should or should not have an increase in the tariff after all it's a fully costed business model that has served the trade and the public well for quite some time in Edinburgh.

The point I'm trying to make is that the taxi tariff in Edinburgh is not extraordinary when it's compared to other areas but for some reason you two seem to think that it's too high or that everyone will desert us because of it, that hasn't happened yet has it.

Try and have some confidence in yourselves and the trade you work in, I don't think I've ever come across such a bunch of self deprecating, negative and defeatist people in all my life.

Edinburgh Metaphsician writes:



Well bright boy, why don't you show us the methodology of the formula and how it came up with, a 30p increase in the day shift drop of the flag, 10p increase in the night shift drop of the flag, and no increase in rate or a reduction in the yardage?



How about driver equality, freedom of choice and unfettered access to the tools of their trade? I think that's a much better idea.



A lot of Ph, around in the fifties was there? Get a life.



Oh is that right, well perhaps you could explain how we are now 244th in the Tariff league? I believe we were around 60th at one point.




We don't think the tariff is too high, on the contrary, it's how you spin the increase to the public and how the increase is implemented that makes the difference.

Oh and we've lost approximately a third of our passengers in the last 10 years, and you don't think passengers are voting with their feet.




The trade, for the most part, is a bunch of a*seholes, which you, surprisingly enough is a perfect example of.

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George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Not a penny more.

http://news.scotsman.com/transport-news ... 6205364.jp

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IDFIMH

After reading some of the comments people really do think we are a bunch of wxnkers

It's a misnomer, obviously, duh.

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Former taxi driver

After reading who some of the comments are from....I think you're right

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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Fuel is officially at a record high in the UK......errm well done Jim, you're in it for the drivers

For Immediate Release - Thursday 8th April 2010

Attn: NEWS DESKS
POLITICAL / TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENTS

PETROL PRICES HIT RECORD HIGH AS LABOUR'S DUTY RISE KICKS IN

DRIVE DOWN FUEL PRICES WITH AN SNP LOCAL CHAMPION

Commenting on today's news that the average price of unleaded petrol has hita new high of 119.9p a litre, SNP MP Angus MacNeil said voters can make Labour pay at the polls for making them pay at the pumps.

Commenting Mr MacNeil said:

"This may be a first for the UK but it has been this way in many parts of Scotland for some time already. Only by voting for an SNP local champion can voters drive down Labour's sky high fuel prices.

"Labour were warned that their support for higher fuel taxes would hit ordinary people and we are already seeing the effects of that tax rise in the price at the pump.

"This latest news just confirms that Labour and Gordon Brown have learnt nothing from their years in government.

"Sky high fuel taxes imposed by Gordon Brown, and latterly Alistair Darling, are indiscriminate and effectively a poll tax on wheels.

"It shows how out of touch Labour have become that they should target ordinary people in this way to pay for the bail out of a banking system failure they helped create.

"Only a vote for the SNP can send the message that Scots no longer want Labour's arbitrary fuel tax hikes and want the introduction of a fuel duty regulator to ensure price stability as well as lower fuel taxes for remote areas.

"By voting SNP the people of Scotland can make Labour pay at the polls for making them pay at the pumps."

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Keeping your head down jim??

Unlike you not to show your pride in your work......upto 120 a litre here today......I bet the edinboro drivers luv ya!

CC

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£123.9 in Gala
mind you I filled up yesterday at asda for £117.9

W T F???

You p*ssed again Mr Skippy41?

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